When people hear Agusto Reyes, they usually relate it to high priced high quality cigars. Cigars International has struck a deal with his factory to bring us common folk a quality affordable cigar!
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CI describes this cigar as full bodied. It has a Connecticut Broadleaf Wrapper with a Dominican Criollo, Corojo, Cuban seed tobacco fillers. They say it is a rich hearty smoke with deep tobacco flavors, coffee notes, and a spicy sweet finish.
The wrapper upon sight is a dark mottled maduro, toothy and veiny, with a generous cap. Mine is a torpedo with a sweet tobacco smell to the body and a sweet chocolate smell to the foot.
After cutting the head it has a good prelight draw that tastes of rich tobacco and sweet raisins.
Upon light I get a good black pepper taste. You definitly get a sweet maduro taste in the mouth. Getting a fair amount of smoke. The strength initially is definitely mild to medium. About 1/4 in, the burn is nice and even with a layered dirty ash. I am starting to get a slight nicotine sting in the back of the tongue through the nose.
Still getting sweet rich tobacco tastes. By 1/3 into the cigar, pepper tastes have picked up. I cant believe that the ash is still hanging on!
Dammit! As I wrote that, the ash fell in my lap! All of a sudden the draw is getting tighter, and I am getting a bit of tar forming on the head. Also, not sure if you can make it out in my blurry photo, had a hard time focusing, but there was a noticeable hole in the body of the cigar, visible as a dark spot on the foot.
As you can see in the next picture, it didn't produce much of a cone. Sorry again for the blurry picture. Must be holding the cigar too close to the lens.
So I clipped a thin layer off the head and the draw opened up and the tar issue gone for the time being. I am starting to get coffee and dark chocolate tastes coming through. The description of this cigar touts it as a full bodied cigar, but I must say I have had much fuller bodied cigars. This cigar to me is more medium in body than full. On the last third of the cigar the strength picked up to a solid medium. It's a good cigar in my humble opinion. Good enough that I want to smoke it to the nub. As you can see at this point, the cigar finally produced a sharp cone, despite it being out of focus!
Now I wanted to smoke as much of the nub as possible so I had to pull out my homemade Nub Buddy. No explanation necessary, just see the photo.
Okay, explanation is in order. You can see it's purpose. All it is a shaped stick with 2 tack nails in the end to stick into your cigar, so you can smoke that nub down to almost nothing without burning your fingers. Nuff said. And you can see I did smoke this nub as far as I could. Eventually it burned down more on one side than the other to the point it almost burned my lip!
Finally the camera focused!
This cigar leaves a slight film to the mouth and has a long lingering finish.
Buzz rating on this one I give a 3.5 out of 5. It was a nice comfortable buzz, not overpowering,
Overall I give this one a 7.5 out of 10. This was a good cigar flavor-wise. What detracted from the score was the fact that the draw tightened up and in the end more tar formed on the head. And not sure I like the film in the mouth on the finish. I like a clean mouth feel. But overall this is still a good cigar despite its minor setbacks.
Like it?: Yes
Buy it again?: Maybe, but not my first choice over other cigars.
Recommend it?: Yes, This would be a good cigar for newbies wanting to move up from milder cigars.
Till next post.......................Peace!
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