The KC/DW Review Series

[mrtr33]

I had my first Savinelli when I met up with Silencei2 just before Christmas a few weeks ago. I asked the shop owner for a strong, full bodied Nicaraguan and that was what he suggested, after I turned down the Padrons and LGC's. Nice smoke. It didn't look like the one on the picture. I want to say it had RyRY on the wrapper. Haven't been able to find it, but haven't looked too hard, either.

[DeeDubya]

Well I now have a new "quick break" cigar that is replacing my beloved Hemingway Short Stories and Oliva Special G's. While the Short Stories will always have a special place in my humidor and I will always keep some on hand, it always seems like a waste to puff down a $5 cigar in 15 minutes. When I have time, I can stretch them out to 20 or 30 minutes and truly enjoy all the earthy flavors. But I'm talking about when I don't have that much time yet still have to have a cigar. Along came the little Nesticos.

The Plasencia Nesticos consist of the same 3yr aged 100% organically grown Nicaraguan tobaccos as their larger cousins. I have several boxes of the larger vitolas and smoke them one on occasion always enjoying the truly natural flavors. It's kinda cool thinking that this may be close to what cigars were like a couple hundred years ago, no pesticides, old world traditional drying and aging and best of all they were puros, as blending, especially with foreign tobaccos was not as prevalent.

The little Nesticos have all the good qualities of their big brothers but of course burn just a little hotter thereby slightly changing the flavors with a little more dry grassiness. Still, they are spicey with a good finish, burn evenly, hold a good ash and are less than half the price of a Short Story and slightly less than a Special G.

[logan37]

Nice review DW! I may have to look into these a when my RP Juniors are gone.

[craig]

Thanks for the review! I have a box tucked away from about a year ago, from when Famous was blowing out the Reserva Organica 2001's - I'll have to see what they're like now.

[DeeDubya]

Well, as you might expect, these are not the Cuban Rafael Gonzalez Corona Extras that sell for around $539/bx. However they are considered to be premium cigars and have the appearance as such. A very nice silky-smooth Connecticut shade wrapper and a near perfect cap look good. The long fillers are a blend of medium-bodied Honduran, Dominican and Nicaraguan tobaccos. On toasting I immediately caught hints of leather and cedar. About a third way it began to give up some spicyness with hints of nuts and more leather. Actually, the leather was dominant from here on out. It kept a well-behaved salt/pepper ash and never ran. The ash held firm and I only tipped it twice noticing a well-defined cone. It had a distinct finish and even close to the nub I never got any bitterness or tars.

I will try another tonight and another tomorrow night. I have decided to make it a practice to smoke at least three cigars before giving them a thumb or the finger. This review is per Ashkicker's request but I will re-visit this post in a couple days to note any changes.

On a scale of 1-10 I rate this cigar 8.75.

[ashauler]

Thank you my friend!!

[DeeDubya]

I'm not a big fan of claro's but this is a pretty good cigar. I think that I didn't like some of the others I had tried because of the mild strength and grassy flavors. These are definately medium strength and have a much better finish.
This is the first out of the box so instead of rating it now I'll come back after a couple more and give them some marks. Right now their tasting pretty good.

They are a blend of Dominican tobaccos rolled in a Connecticut jade wrapper. A very smooth, silky wrapper I might add. It burned even with a white, firm ash. I did detect a little grassiness but it could be a mental thing I have about claro's. Nice for a change. I'll keep them on my list of things to do.