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ANEJORE
Ok, we are all kind of benifiting from my woes as we check into yet another rare Cuban beauty. This is a full box of H. Upmann Monarchs from 1998. A primo stick from what I have always heard. You will join me as I partake in one of these beauties for the 1st time. 1st off, I just love the way a box of tubos look.
As I sniffed the foot of the cigar I could smell barnyard and hay. The prelight draw was the same with the addition of a vanilla sense.
The cigar starts of with flavors of chocolate, caramel and wood. It began a very faint spiciness with almost some kind of herbal note. After the 1/2" mark I start tasting leather. As it got into the next 1 to 2" of it I sensed vanilla along with all the other flavors mentioned as they all came and went at will. As the cigar went on there was a steady increase in the spiciness.
As I got past the 2" mark I picked up an almost french toast type of flavor, I can even taste some maple. This is a DAMN GOOD CIGAR!! Into the 2nd half the spiciness starts to mellow.
For pretty much the rest of the cigar I tasted leather, maple, toast with occasional tastes of vanilla. Also noted, in the last 3rd of the cigar it seemed to pick up a very tastey tobacco flavor.
As I got toward nub status the spiciness returns and the tobacco flavor is strong.
OUCH!!
My overall impression of this cigar is that it was FANTASTIC!! :thumbs:
We'll see what my woes will cause me to pull out of my humidor next! :whistling:
As I sniffed the foot of the cigar I could smell barnyard and hay. The prelight draw was the same with the addition of a vanilla sense.
The cigar starts of with flavors of chocolate, caramel and wood. It began a very faint spiciness with almost some kind of herbal note. After the 1/2" mark I start tasting leather. As it got into the next 1 to 2" of it I sensed vanilla along with all the other flavors mentioned as they all came and went at will. As the cigar went on there was a steady increase in the spiciness.
As I got past the 2" mark I picked up an almost french toast type of flavor, I can even taste some maple. This is a DAMN GOOD CIGAR!! Into the 2nd half the spiciness starts to mellow.
For pretty much the rest of the cigar I tasted leather, maple, toast with occasional tastes of vanilla. Also noted, in the last 3rd of the cigar it seemed to pick up a very tastey tobacco flavor.
As I got toward nub status the spiciness returns and the tobacco flavor is strong.
OUCH!!
My overall impression of this cigar is that it was FANTASTIC!! :thumbs:
We'll see what my woes will cause me to pull out of my humidor next! :whistling:
