Hey, hey. This is the Joya de Nicaragua Cabinetta Serie double corona. Yet another fine stick sent over from the boys at cigarsforwarriors.net . It is just a delicious looking cigar with a 2 tone wrapper. It comes in at 7x 54, just a monster...love it. Pre-light smell has a nice tobacco and almost cedar like aroma to it.
Cutting and Lighting: Tried again to use the punch cutter on this but it was extremely tight on the draw. So I opened it up with the regular cutter and still had just a crazy tight draw on it. You really had to work it to get some some smoke.
First 1/3: What smoke I could get out of it was full of a rich tobacco flavor mixed with what tasted like cedar and spice. Short finish at this point. Burn line was nice and tight and it had a nice gray ash to it.
Second 1/3: Similar flavors but with a touch of pepper to it now. The draw is opening up slowly and the smoke output is up. Finish is sticking around a bit more now. A large crack did open up about a finger breath below the band. Again, I don't know if this is something wrong with the construction or the fact that it got shipped to Afghanistan. It is tough to keep this dudes right even with a humidor.
Final 1/3: Once I got to the dark brown portion of the wrapper, the flavor profile changed to a deep rich earth. It still had a hint of spice and pepper to it but they were fading. The ash also changed to more of a flowery appearance. Draw is open now and lots of creamy smoke and a long finish. Finally put it down at nearly 2 hours!
Overall: Nice flavors I just wish I didn't have to work so hard in the beginning to get them out. Damn thing lasted almost 120 minutes so a nice long smoke for the ~$8 price. I liked it overall but it is probably my least favorite Joya de Nicaragua I have tried so far.
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