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rzaman
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CAO Consert...gifted by a friend.
It starts with strong spicy kick with tons of chocolate and sweet floral aroma. It definetly has tobacco from Nicaraguan Condega(sweet floral) and Esteli(strong spice). It is pretty smooth and creamy with a sharp harshness at the end. The burn is good but need couple of torch up, perfect draw. produces a lot of smoke, thick and lush.
At the 2/3, spicy leathery flavor with strong dark coffee note is enjoyable. Retrohale is little challengeing because of the harsh edge. The black peppery spiciness ends with caramely sweetness. The person who gave me this cigar told me that there is a tobacco from Honduras call "Tapaneco" which is wild tobacco leaf. It has a heavy body. I cannot verify this with full confidence. However, I cannot find any complexity at this stage. The floral aroma is gone.
At final/3 stage the cigar is medium to full and clost to bold. It is bruning slowly because of oily wrapper. It is a sun grown Ecuadorian wrapper but very smooth and silky. The black peppery spiciness is very strong with molasses-caramely sweetness. It reminds me a lot of Liga Privada T52. I still feel the harshness. The distinctive flavor is sweet-bitter dark chocolate with a mild tangy aroma at the back. I am not getting any new flavor and aroma.
Overall, a good medium-full bodied smoke. This cigar offers great value with $7 price tag. This is not like any other CAO cigar.
It starts with strong spicy kick with tons of chocolate and sweet floral aroma. It definetly has tobacco from Nicaraguan Condega(sweet floral) and Esteli(strong spice). It is pretty smooth and creamy with a sharp harshness at the end. The burn is good but need couple of torch up, perfect draw. produces a lot of smoke, thick and lush.
At the 2/3, spicy leathery flavor with strong dark coffee note is enjoyable. Retrohale is little challengeing because of the harsh edge. The black peppery spiciness ends with caramely sweetness. The person who gave me this cigar told me that there is a tobacco from Honduras call "Tapaneco" which is wild tobacco leaf. It has a heavy body. I cannot verify this with full confidence. However, I cannot find any complexity at this stage. The floral aroma is gone.
At final/3 stage the cigar is medium to full and clost to bold. It is bruning slowly because of oily wrapper. It is a sun grown Ecuadorian wrapper but very smooth and silky. The black peppery spiciness is very strong with molasses-caramely sweetness. It reminds me a lot of Liga Privada T52. I still feel the harshness. The distinctive flavor is sweet-bitter dark chocolate with a mild tangy aroma at the back. I am not getting any new flavor and aroma.
Overall, a good medium-full bodied smoke. This cigar offers great value with $7 price tag. This is not like any other CAO cigar.
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The blend has six different tobacco from Dominican Republic according to the cigar maker. It is light and feels good in hand. The wrapper is Ecuadorian grown Connecticut- light brown color, few veins, little oily and smooth. It starts with strong musty earthy flavor, cream, gingerbread, cedar, butterscotch with distinctive roasted nutty aroma at the back. the strength is mild but very flavorful.
2/3: The strength is mild to medium now. The earthy flavor is more dense with above flavors and aroma. I am also detecting aromatic nutmeg powder, eggnog coffee latte flavor with tons of roasted nutty flavor at the back. The delicate white peppery spiciness started gathering at this stage. Retrohale is really enjoyable because it is completely smooth. I also need to mention that this cigar does not produce a lot of smoke but the flavor is fully robust. The texture is very creamy but not thick or mouthful.
Final/3: Then strength is medium and also can feel the tobacco bitterness at the back of my tongue. the top of my tongue can feel the white peppery bite, the middle of my tongue can feel the creamy texture with more earthy, cedar, eggnog coffee latte, gingerbread and tons of nutmeg and cardamom powder aroma at the back. the mild and delicate white peppery note through the nose is very enjoyable.
Final Thought: This is a great and easy smoke with perfect draw and burn. At the end of the day, I can sit with a relaxing mood and enjoy the mild-medium flavorful cigar. Avo XO is one of my all time favorite smoke and never disappoint me. I smoked boxes of this and always maintain a good stock.
I have mentioned this to the Davidoff White 2012 thread that I had a opportunity to talk with some of Davidoof's senior marketing folks. I asked one of them to tell me a little about the six tobacco blend of this cigar. After couple hours of smoking they revealed two tobaccos name to me about this blend. One is Olor and Piloto Cubano. Olor is a indigenous Dominican tobacco which is mild but flavorful and Piloto is a hybreed with Cuban seeds which has more strong body. 99% time blender never tell the truth about a blend. I feel this can be only a 2-3 tobacco blend. The entire flavor profile is pretty flavorful but straight forward from earthy, nutty(Olor) with mild start to medium eggnog coffee latte(Piloto) with some mild to medium flavor and aroma profile. I like this cigar so much that I will need to do a complete review someday. $10 is not a bad price for this quality cigar.
1/3: Surprisingly after lighting it up the draw is perfect not loose at all. It starts with strong spicy kick with black pepper, woody, rough leather, mild cocoa flavors with mild nutty note at the back. I tried to Retrohale and Immideatly stopped myself for the overpowering spiciness through the nose. Close,to an inch, the cigar mellowed out a little. However, it was little painful to smoke so far for the over spiciness. The flavor profile is good so far. It is settling with a nice touch of honey note at this moment. The smoke is also little creamier but back of my tongue hurts for metallic(minerals) harshness. over all flavor wise it is good but this cigar definetly needs rest. The strength is medium but for harshness it feels bolder
2/3: the cigar mellowed out a lot at this stage. Now I feel some aged tobacco sweet-bitterness. I can detect cocoa, earth, herbs but not aromatic herbs, spice with strong nutty and honey note at the back. The nuttiness of the cigar is good. Again, failed to retrohale through the nose for the strong spiciness. The back of my tongue is not hurting anymore. It settled down the overpowering spiciness. The smoke is very creamy, thick and round. There is a very slight floral note after each puff. I believe this what some people say cubansque. IMPO Cubansque means distinctive aromatic fruity-flowery flavors. I couldn't find it in this cigar so far but that doesn't undermine Pinoleros flavor profile. It is pretty good at this stage.
Final/3: The honey sweetness disappeared at this stage which I really enjoyed at 2/3 stage. The leather elemnt is back but not rough any longer with earthy, cocoa, black pepper flavors with nutty finish. I am partially able to rethrohale but releasing it quickly. Otherwsie my nose still hurts. I am not getting any new flavor or aroma.
Final thought: Indeed, it is not like as usual AJ blend. It has no Nicaragua strong coffee, espresso, dark chocolate flavors. It is more cocoa flavor based with tons of nutty finish. This cigar definetly need age to Avoide the metallic-mineral harshness. I don't think, I will buy a box but will smoke it again with some age to see how it performs. However, it does not give me Cubansque character. It is a $8 cigar and price is reasonable. The Cigar has perfect draw and burn.
Now imagine of the Cuban made Davidoff. I had couple in Madrid. If I get the Cuban visa, I will definetly get some. My main CC source HE-Man: The Master of the Cuban cigar is having a hard time to collect some but I know he will someday. If I get enough, you will definetly get one.
One of things I really hate is when retailers try to sell non-Cuban cigars by using the word "Cubanesque", but as I was smoking it the only thought that ran through my mind was:
"This reminds me of a Montecristo Petit Edmundo."
It starts with tons of earthy flavors and pick up the strength step by step from mild to medium. It is not extremely complex but packed with multi-dimensional flavors and aroma.it starts with strong earth, wood, grass flavors and Chinese pear aroma at the back. The 2/3 adds sweet honey, toasted nut flavors with a lemony finish at the back. The smoke is super smooth, buttery, round and mouthful. There is no sign of harshness at all. At the end of 2/3 it adds additional flavors and aroma of fruits, sweet pear, soft and delicate black peppery finish through the nose, tons of nutty background with a light coffee note at the end. Rethrohale is very enjoyable with the delicate black peppery bite and sweet cedar finish. It picks up medium strength at final/3 with more distinctive coffee flavor with thick earthy aroma. Each puff ends with nutty and lemony finish. The smoke is fully creamy and round. The tobaccos in this cigar must be aged for a long time because the back of my tongue is clean. The sweet earthiness of this cigar is awesome. I am glad I have a box. This cigar does not require any aging because it has a lots of delicate notes at the back. Aging will evaporate these delicate aroma and notes.
This is a quick review. I will review it with great detail in the future. I would like to thank Davaidoff for not forget about us who like the traditional Davidoff cigars. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!