Review Notes: I first smoked one of these at the Cigar Aficionado Dinner of the Century, in Paris. It was, at that time, the best cigar I'd ever experienced. Since then, I've had several of them, with varying degrees of satisfaction. I just finished the last of a box I'd acquired in 1997, and they were fantastic. Last night, I tried one from a new box, acquired 12/06, and it was unsmokable. I thought I'd get a hernia trying to draw on it. Very dissappointed.

Review Notes: Classic Partagas flavors continuing throughout the cigar. Extremely rich and creamy with notes of spice and cedar. Very well balanced and never overpowers. Construction is top tier. A classic smoke. Highly recommend it. A must try in this line.

Review Notes: My wife got a 3 pack of these when she vacationed in Cuba. I waited over a year before smoking my first one today. When lighting up this vitola, it had the typical partagas profile, like the Serie D no.4. but mellowed out very quiclkly into a relaxing ceamy smooth smoke. Keep that subtle smoothness throughout the entire cigar, and lasted well over two hours. One of the best Cuban's that I have tried, and will wait another year to try the next, to judge what time will do. I could not find anything negative to review about this cigar, although I would suspect that it would be expensive to purchase off the island.

Review Notes: I’d been holding off on smoking anything today until my brother showed up, because I knew he was bringing these bad boys. The anticipation was killing me, but the time finally came and we sat down and smoked these puppies. It had a nice natural wrapper with a nice contrasting band. The ash was light grey and stacked at first, but became more flakey and cracked towards the middle, and it wasn’t very sturdy. The draw was just a tad loose, but not bad at all. The burn was relatively even most of the way, but I had to relight the edges about five or six times. The smoke was light at first but became thick about two inches into the smoke. The first two inches of the cigar were filled with a leathery core and lots of cocoa. After that it really mellowed out and became a very light bodied smoke. It maintained a creamy dry leathery core throughout the rest of the smoke, which was very relaxing, but not tremendously unique or outstanding in any way. It finished on this note, and I decided that this was more of a Saturday morning smoke than an evening smoke, but it was still enjoyable nonetheless. I’d smoke another one, but I’d probably want one with a little more age on it.

Review Notes: The first half of the cigar was OK. The second half I had to suck like a mule. The flavor died off and might as well have been a Philly Blunt!