My Father Le Bijou Special Edition Corona Review

[Scott1966]

My Father Le Bijou Special Edition Corona - 5 5/8 X 46. Wrapper - Double Oscuro Nicaraguan Habano, Binder - Nicaragua, Filler - Nicaragua. Full bodied. Rolling team 2. Only 300 signed and numbered boxes were made exclusively for Puff 'N' Stuff Cigars. Blended by Jaime Garcia and owner Alan Tybor.

Initial taste - Dry cedar and spice.

First third - Strong spiciness, leather, some woodiness and notes of raisin.

Second third - The cigar really opens up with flavors of spice, citrus, leather, chocolate and a raisin fruitiness. Very nicely balanced.

Last third - Spiciness continues with the tangy citrus leather, chocolate and the raisin fruitiness. Very long wonderful finish of spice citrus leather and chocolate. This finish lasted a long time.

Construction was excellent - gorgeous silky-brown, smooth wrapper. This has to be the thickest and strongest wrapper that I have seen on any My Father/Pepin Garcia cigar. Burn was sharp producing a light gray solid ash that held on. Draw was perfect with plenty of billowing smoke.

A fantastic smoke bursting with robust flavors. Complexity and balance was superb especially for such a full bodied smoke. If you like the regular My Father Le Bijou line, you will love these - think of it as a Le Bijou on steroids. MSRP is $190.00 for a box of 23 or $47.00 for a 5 pack which is a very good value for such an exceptional cigar. You can get them at http://www.puffnstuffcigars.com or by calling 1-770-908-9388. Definitely a top ten for 2011 nominee for my blogs - great job Jaime and Alan!

For pictures go to:
http://scottsmythsworldofcigars.blogspot.com/2011/05/my-father-le-bijou-special-edition.html

 

[vortex]

Nice review. :thumbs:

Mine are recovering nicely now that I've cracked the lid for a few days. But the one I smoked OTT, while dry, was still very tasty. I was surprised they needed recovery but that's why one never assumes.

 

[Scott1966]

Nice review. :thumbs:

Mine are recovering nicely now that I've cracked the lid for a few days. But the one I smoked OTT, while dry, was still very tasty. I was surprised they needed recovery but that's why one never assumes.

Which rolling team is your box? R2? Each team is slightly different from the others from my understanding.

 

[vortex]

Nice review. :thumbs:

Mine are recovering nicely now that I've cracked the lid for a few days. But the one I smoked OTT, while dry, was still very tasty. I was surprised they needed recovery but that's why one never assumes.

Which rolling team is your box? R2? Each team is slightly different from the others from my understanding.

Can't imagine why the roller would have anything to do with recovery. I've never had a badly constructed My Father, though. Burn, draw, and appearance are always top notch.

They seem to be recovering well, which is all I care about. With painted or varnished boxes it's always a good idea to crack the box, though.

 

[Scott1966]

Nice review. :thumbs:

Mine are recovering nicely now that I've cracked the lid for a few days. But the one I smoked OTT, while dry, was still very tasty. I was surprised they needed recovery but that's why one never assumes.

Which rolling team is your box? R2? Each team is slightly different from the others from my understanding.

Can't imagine why the roller would have anything to do with recovery. I've never had a badly constructed My Father, though. Burn, draw, and appearance are always top notch.

They seem to be recovering well, which is all I care about. With painted or varnished boxes it's always a good idea to crack the box, though.

Spoke with Alan and the R2's seemed to have been shipped a bit on the wet side. When I smoked the first one OTT, it really was missing something but when Alan mentioned to me to dry one out for a few days, what a difference. He said that the R2's seem to have to be dry boxed for a while.

 

[Shamrocker]

Nice review. I've been waiting for one to come up. They sound pretty nice and I can't wait to try one.

 

[Aussie Shaun]

Nice review Bro, sounds like a top notch stogie. Will have to try and get my hands on a sample to see for myself. :thumbs:

 

[2K6TBSS]

Sounds like a great smoke! Will have to add it to my list.

 

[Hinson]

I snagged a fiver earlier, great service from these guys.

 

[tomthirtysix]

Which rolling team is your box? R2? Each team is slightly different from the others from my understanding.

Maybe I need to check mine again, but how do you know what rolling team it was?

 

[tone-ny]

Nice review newbie! :laugh:

 

[Scott1966]

Which rolling team is your box? R2? Each team is slightly different from the others from my understanding.

Maybe I need to check mine again, but how do you know what rolling team it was?

On the bottom of the box there will be a little white square sticker that will either say R1, R2, R3 or R4

Nice review newbie! :laugh:

Thanks FOG

 

[tone-ny]

Which rolling team is your box? R2? Each team is slightly different from the others from my understanding.

Maybe I need to check mine again, but how do you know what rolling team it was?

On the bottom of the box there will be a little white square sticker that will either say R1, R2, R3 or R4

Nice review newbie! :laugh:

Thanks FOG

Good to see you posting! We got to get together it has been a while!

 

[Scott1966]

Which rolling team is your box? R2? Each team is slightly different from the others from my understanding.

Maybe I need to check mine again, but how do you know what rolling team it was?

On the bottom of the box there will be a little white square sticker that will either say R1, R2, R3 or R4

Nice review newbie! :laugh:

Thanks FOG

Good to see you posting! We got to get together it has been a while!

:thumbs:

 

[4cbln3]

Good review!

I smoked one last night while on duty and this cigar has some BALLS! I like the flavor profile more than the regular Le bijou line so I may be in the market for another box to share with some other guys, but I had to stop just halfway and took a short break, I was spinning and wasn't so sure I could drive the damn truck.

I did finish the cigar just after the last band, but doing simple math was just out of the question.

 

[Scott1966]

Good review!

I smoked one last night while on duty and this cigar has some BALLS! I like the flavor profile more than the regular Le bijou line so I may be in the market for another box to share with some other guys, but I had to stop just halfway and took a short break, I was spinning and wasn't so sure I could drive the damn truck.

I did finish the cigar just after the last band, but doing simple math was just out of the question.

Yep, a Le Bijou on Steroids.

 

[:Monty:]

I smoked one of these the other day. I wish i could say I was floored but unfortunately I think I've completely burned out my palate. They sure look nice though.

 

[Wurm]

Even with a head cold I loved the one I had last night while sipping on a double jack and red-bull cola.

These are probably going to get better with age, I doubt I'll give them a chance though.

 

[Scott1966]

Even with a head cold I loved the one I had last night while sipping on a double jack and red-bull cola.

These are probably going to get better with age, I doubt I'll give them a chance though.

Definitely feel that they will only get better with age.

 

[Wurm]

Even with a head cold I loved the one I had last night while sipping on a double jack and red-bull cola.

These are probably going to get better with age, I doubt I'll give them a chance though.

Definitely feel that they will only get better with age.

I hid a few down in my basement (a steady 62°F / 59-62% Rh climate) storage box... now I just have to forget about them. The Padrón 2000 and Pepin OR blue labels I managed to forget about for a few years in the same box turned out marvelous.