Pre-light Experience

Seth: The Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero comes off as a Cuban Giant Corona with a semi-closed foot. It has a silky wrapper that has this golden hay coloring, and it’s between Claro and light Colorado in coloring. Beautiful coloring that would look great on a larger ring gauge. The wrapper has aromas of warm spices, leather, tobacco, cedar and hay, and the foot gives off similar aromas that are warm, rich and comforting.
John: The Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero features a Colorado-colored wrapper and appears to be in a Lancero format with a partially closed foot. I weighed the cigar at 10.6 grams and measured the humidity at 59.1% using the HumidiMeter Pro. Aromas from the wrapper included musty wood, tobacco sweetness and hay, while the partially exposed foot offered primarily sweet tobacco.
Jiunn: The Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero has a uniform golden Colorado claro wrapper shade. Veins are well pressed, seams tight, bunch and roll on the looser end as expected and the head is well wrapped and capped. Pre-light aromas provide black pepper spice and barnyard.

Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero

First Third

Seth: The cigar begins with nice creamy notes that are paired with cedar, honey, warm spices and tobacco. Lovely blend where the wrapper is popping. Medium in strength and body.
John: The first third kicks off with tobacco sweetness followed by wood and medium-strength baking spices that linger through the finish. Dry wood quickly moves into the post draw and defines it. I’m not finding much in the way of evolution as the cigar continues toward the halfway point of the first third. Through the bottom half, medium-full strength baking spices continue to define the retrohale.
Jiunn: The first third starts off with grassy hay and sweet cream. Soon, tannin filled sharper minerals comes through. Retrohaling gives increased grassy hay and dried red pepper spice. The finish is short and clean with layered airy cedar. Strength and body is medium.

Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero

Second Third

Seth: The second third is right in line with the first. There isn’t any deviation, but I am enjoying this thin ring gauge and everything it is delivering. Cedar, honey, warm spices and tobacco. Medium in strength and body.
John: The cigar moves into the second third with creamy, medium-full strength baking spices leading off, followed by mildly dry wood. Both flavor components linger all the way through the finish. As the second third continues, herbal notes join the center of the retrohale with some musty accents, but both are largely pushed down by the intensity of the baking spices. Once the cigar has almost reached the halfway point of the second third, musty dry wood defines the post draw.
Jiunn: The second third still presents a pleasant experience. The primary flavors are still the same with sweet creaminess mixed with complimentary tannins and minerals. Strength and body is unchanged at medium.

Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero

Final Third

Seth: The cigar finishes fairly in line with the first and second. It is more tobacco and cedar focused, so it’s a minor stepdown. Still medium in strength and body.
John: The final third begins with creamy dry wood, while medium-strength baking spices occupy the center of the profile. As the cigar continues, a significant amount of dryness builds through the center, with tannins joining and lingering into the finish. Delayed medium-full strength baking spices develop through the post draw. By the halfway point of the final third, the baking spices have receded to light-plus strength, leaving dry wood to carry the profile alongside tannic accents.
Jiunn: The final third gets a bit too mineral forward for my taste. It’s also less sweet and creamy but the good part is the tannins are still intact. Strength and body finishes the same medium.

Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero

Burn

Seth: Perfect draw from start to finish.
John: The burn was uneven through the first third and the cigar went out just over an inch in, requiring a re-light. The cigar went out again during the first third, requiring a second re-light. The burn was straight through the second third before the cigar went out while I was actively puffing on it, requiring a third re-light. The burn remained straight through the final third, although I could feel it threatening to stall at several points.
Jiunn: Burn performance was excellent as the burn was even, tight ashes, cool burning temperatures and ample smoke production.

Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero

Draw

Seth: Perfect burn throughout the cigar.
John: The draw measured 50 inches of water on the Cigar Medics draw tester. Subjectively, it sat between two and two-and-a-half notches into the resistant spectrum.
Jiunn: The draw was also excellent as it struck the perfect balance of ideal air flow and resistance.

Overall

Seth: The Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero is a good cigar. It’s not a vitola I would come back to often, and the blend will probably not be as good in another vitola, but it’s a fun cigar. If it was a little shorter, it would be great. Nice flavors with the strength, body and construction.
John: Blind Cigar #1584 is a cigar largely defined by baking spices and dry wood, with the spices doing most of the heavy lifting throughout the first two thirds. The opening offers some tobacco sweetness to provide balance, but that sweetness quickly settles into the background as the baking spices build from medium to medium-full strength. I found the spices engaging enough to carry the profile, but the lack of meaningful evolution keeps the first third firmly in Average territory. The second third continues with the same basic formula. The creamy texture helps soften the intensity of the baking spices, while herbal and musty notes briefly attempt to add some complexity through the retrohale. Unfortunately, the strength of the spices largely pushes those secondary flavors aside before they can become fully established. Musty dry wood eventually takes over the post draw, reinforcing the cigar’s increasingly dry character. The final third sees the profile shift more decisively toward dry and tannic wood. Baking spices remain present and even return at medium-full strength through the post draw for a time, but they eventually recede significantly. Once that happens, there isn’t much remaining to balance the growing dryness and tannins, leaving the cigar with a linear and somewhat repetitive conclusion. The burn performance is the biggest weakness of the experience. Three re-lights are difficult to overlook, particularly when one of them occurs while I’m actively puffing on the cigar. Even when the burn appears straight, there is a persistent sense that the cigar is threatening to stall. The draw is somewhat resistant but remains within a manageable range and doesn’t present the same level of concern. Overall, the Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero offers an intense baking spice profile that should appeal to smokers who enjoy spice-forward cigars. For me, the limited evolution, increasing dryness and significant burn issues hold the experience back. There are enjoyable moments throughout, but the cigar ultimately settles at an Average overall rating. Total smoking time was 2 hours and 17 minutes.
Jiunn: I think I may have just found my first ever. A morning cigar that is a lancero-ish (of all sizes) that holds its weight in flavors and body. This Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero was a pleasurable smoke being creamy and sweet with just enough earthiness to round it out. With each draw, I find myself needing to slow down in a good way to enjoy the flavors so that I don’t overheat the skinny cigar. Good stuff.

Seth Geise

SCORE

6.82

Cost/Point

$1.81

Scoring System

John McTavish

SCORE

5.05

Cost/Point

$2.18

Scoring System

Jiunn Liu

SCORE

6.82

Cost/Point

$1.81

Scoring System

Team Cigar Review: Rojas Quiet Morning Lancero