Santa Damiana

[Roham]

I just enjoyed a Santa Damiana La Romana Seleccion Especial Series 2005. It was a great smoke from the DR. Burned nice. Awsome aroma and I smoked it till I burned my fingers My local tobacconist said this cigar is the DR Montecristo rebanded for sale in Canada because Cuban Montecristo's can only be sold here. Anyone tried one of these cigars before? Any truth in what my tobacconist said?

[Kenyth]

Hmm, I don't know, but I just got one in a bonus sampler with my JR order. Perhaps it's a more promising cigar than I first thought!

[nhcigarfan]

Not sure, but I had a monti classic the other day, good cigar.

[Kenyth]

I just smoked one of these yesterday. I didn't have high hopes. The wrapper was very pale and didn't have any oily sheen. It looked and smelled to be a very mild cigar and I generally don't like them much. The pre-light draw was pretty unimpressive as well. Man was I ever wrong! This was a great smoke! Mild to medium, but with plenty of flavor! There was an almost vanilla like subtle sweetness and plenty of smoke. The aroma of the smoke was wonderful! I had this with a big cup of black hazelnut coffee brewed pretty strong. A great pairing. I smoked this one all the way down. It lost the subtle sweetness at the end. The smoke was stronger and had more earthy flavors at this point.

At any rate, I'd buy this DR smoke again in a heartbeat. I liked it as well, if not better than Cohiba Red dots. Very unusual yumminess for a cigar with such a light wrapper.

[Bobalouie]

Kenyth....
sounds like my review of the 1st Gispert natural I had. I had always smoked the maduros and looked at the natural like it was not gonna be to great but when I smoked it I was suprized. Theres a store in town here by me that has about 4-5 diff. Santa Damiana's, I gues I'll be trying one this week.

[Cigar Penguin]

Nice!


Pick one up for me Bobalouie,I'll grab it from you on Saturday.

[Kenyth]

Of course, I've only had one. It could have just been an exceptionally good stick, or the stars were aligned properly or something. Some wise guys on this board have sage advice. They said to always sample a couple of sticks before judging a cigar brand good or bad.

[Kenyth]

I smoked another Santa Damiana. This one was a tubo. I had high hopes from my experience with the last one. When I first looked at it, it looked strange. The wrapper was covered in tiny black dots and was significantly darker than the last one I had. It was also rolled looser and had no sheen at all. If it didn't have the band, I'd have sworn it was a completely different cigar.

IT SUCKED! No complexity, no sweetness, and it had a cheap somewhat harsh tobacco flavor. I suffered through it for a while and ditched it less than halfway through.

I am just confused as hell how there can be such a difference between two smokes like that! Maybe the name was bought out and rolled by someone different? I don't know. You can't seem to find these anymore anyway, so I guess it's a moot point.

[thepyrofish]

Maybe not all Santa Damiana cigars are the rebanded ones. When they needed to be rebanded they could have just chosen another name they make. All rebanded Monti's are SD, but not all SD are rebanded Monti's? Not fact, just an idea. That would explain them appearing to be different cigars altogether. They essentially would be.

[varmas]

Hey...

I had a Santa Damiana Rothchild H2000 last night. It's a Pajero, Robusto size if I'm correct.

It was grate. Just grate. It gave me a little ashy, not pleasent smoke when lit, but after few draws it got better - way better. The Draw was good, the burn - evin. It had somewhat a coffe flavour. The middle was the best part of it. Smoke was warm, but not hot, so the taste was good, not burning or ashy - cofffe, maybe evin nutts. And smell was nice - fresh smoke a little sweat evin. The end got hot, but what surprised me - not ashy. Coffe (and probably all subtile tastes) was gone and smoke got strong, earthy, but I still liked it. Smoked it for more than an hour.

I'll sure be smokin' some more of those

No info on tabacconist's words tho...:/