Tatuaje La Verite Vintage 2009 ~ Robusto

[badwhale]

Smoke: Tatuaje La Verite Vintage 2009 ~ Robusto
Drink: h20
Tunes: None (besides wifey bitching at me that I’m smoking on a Tuesday night.)

Wrapper: Nicaraguan
Binder: Nicaraguan
Filler: Nicaraguan
Draw: Medium draw. Pretty good.
Burn: Even
Misc: runs about 60min.

[SIZE="3"]Pre-light: Nice maduro shade wrapper. Pronounced veins, and looks like good construction. I have to admit, they maybe could have stepped it up a notch with eh label. Looks like someone made it on a inkjet printer. Smells musky. Taste on the cut is pretty neutral with some spice.



Light: Easy. Medium draw.

1st 3rd: Spicy, like hot sauce and oily. Nutty like a walnut skin kind of taste. Mellowing now about 3/8” in. More buttery now with the mouth feel. Still has some walnut skin oil bitter, but more subdued. Hearing little crackle post between drags.



Ash: White, stacked well but unexpended fell off 3/4”



2nd 3rd: Hot sauce / peppery, but not toothy. Oil. Little floral nuances. I’m not, I repeat NOT getting cocoa or chocolate. Medium to full body. Some woodsy notes, like oak.



3rd 3rd: Not offensive, and buttery. Mixed with oil and hot spice.



Overall impression: I’m not looking for any more. Maybe I don’t like the taste of hype.

Will

[buzz]

Thanks for the review - I'm planning on burning one of these this weekend. I actually thought the band was too ornate and was hoping for something even simpler (more like what Pete uses for the standard Browns). What's in the Meco box?

[badwhale]

Thanks for the review - I'm planning on burning one of these this weekend. I actually thought the band was too ornate and was hoping for something even simpler (more like what Pete uses for the standard Browns). What's in the Meco box?

I think a cutting head for oxy/acetylene.

Yeah on the band, not that it matters. Either try harder, or try less hard.

Will

[mrtr33]

It probably doesn't make any difference (or very little), but the Robusto and Churchill vitolas are of different tobacco blends.....anyone smoked their churchill yet?

[buzz]

I fired up a robusto over the weekend. Perfect burn, light gray ash that held solid for an inch, good draw, nice aroma, med-full strength, started out strong with a nice pepper and then went to a cedar-ish wood. Taste was nice but not interesting. Nubbed it without it getting hot/harsh. I'm interested to see what the churchill will be like. Good cigar, though overpriced by a couple bucks IMO.

Here's me before I smoked it:
Here's me while smoking it:
Here's me after:

I look so cool with my new shades.

[Mangyrat]

ops sorry removed the post.

[Roger]

Thanks for the review... And what could be so upsetting about Tuesdays? Keep comming with those good reviews! Roger.