Hemingway Maduro, what is there to say other than you can’t go wrong with any Hemingway….. Very nice draw, didn’t have to get Russ’s reamer. Would go very nice with a pour of Last Drop, but alas, maybe another time. Mellow enough to go with anything. I’m like’n the flavor, but missing an Anejo …maybe next….
The Aurora 107 was released in 2010 to represent the 107th anniversary of the company. The label is bright and colorful with a faded red to yellow with the lion’s head and 3 separate gold coins covering the sides.Draw: Good
Burn: Very well
Construction: Good/Excellent (nice veins in the wrapper)The first 1/3 of this cigar was very woody with some spice.
The second 1/3 contained a little more spice with a hint of leather and a nice nutty flavor.
The last 1/3 had some hints of coffee with some spice and a hint of charred wood.
Overall, A well-made cigar with great taste and good design.
Chris Turley
Here is me (David Stevens) with Cigar Icon Benji Menendez taken at a General Cigar Company Inc. event on Wednesday May 19th 2010 promoting the Partagas Benji Master Series cigar. I passed on a couple of my cherrished Ramon – Ramon cigars (from the once and only 2001 release to honor Ramon Cifuentes after his passing in January 2000) to Benji for which he was very thankful.
Cigar Review:
The Partagas Black Label is a rich maduro cigar featuring a medio tiempo sun grown wrapper lending to a very full flavored and full bodied experience. Wrapped sun-grown Havana-seed leaf from the Connecticut River Valley, this is a very robust blend of Nicaraguan and Piloto Cubano ligeros. Flavors of earth, semi-sweet dark chocolate, and dark roasted espresso delight my senses but was not too spicy. This is a dark, oily cigar with little color variation in the wrapper. It has a deep tobacco smell and sweet pre-draw. The construction is very good and provided an easy draw with plenty of smoke and a leisurely, even burn. Age seems to be the magic ingredient to these cigars – mine came in a Cedar Cask and were aged when I received them – I stored them another 3 months in my Humidor to settle them in before trying one – it was worth the wait. This made it into my top 10 favorite smokes – pairs well with a peaty single malt.
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