Review Notes: Very mild, clean tasting maduro that puts out smoke like a locomotive whether you're puffing it or not. Well aged and slightly under filled feeling light in the hand and causing a fast, but perfect, burn. The cap, forget about it, it's like they just found a scrap of leaf stuck it on. Smokers that like mild maddies will be in love with the Escudero. Now, business does begin to pick up a little in the strength department after the first third but medium is still a long way off. This is a very good cigar at the right time. I look forward to having one for breakfast very soon.

Review Notes: WOW...I got this cigar as part of the JR cigar Halloween surprise sampler and wasn't impressed with what I got........Except for this. Upon lighting it was nothing special, a medium body, getting better and better as time went. I was a great construction especially for a very large cigar. Overall It is a great value cigar. Some nice complexity and balanced.....

Review Notes: Nearly 6 months of aging produced a handsome, dark reddish brown, maduro wrapper. Burn was a bit uneven but OK. Draw was fine. Cap became loose upon punching but stayed in place with a bit of saliva. This cigar excelled in flavor. Deep rich bursts of mocha, chocolate, light spice, and much like twomartini's mentioned, something sort of red wine fruitiness came through within a slightly sweet, meaty, chewy, tobacco base. I found this cigar mostly medium in body, never boring, and suprisingly delicious. I got this in a sampler. I will enter $3 PP.

Review Notes: Great taste! Starts out nice and creamy; and then the dark chocolates, redolent dark red fruits and heavy wine flavors begin to build and build and build. A smooth smoke that will grow a long white ash. I've had some issues with the cap popping off after the intitial cut, but I just give it a lick and press it back on (not sure if its my cutter (Credo) or just my technique), certainly a minor flaw for such a wonderful cigar. Highly recommended.

Review Notes: I have a box of these and thus I may re-rate when I have gone through a larger quantity, but this review is based on a solid three smokes. First of all, the construction of this cigar is great. The wrapper is rich, oily and smooth. Of the three that I've smoked, none have had draw problems and the burn was relatively even. The one that I had just a few minutes ago started out a touch uneven but quickly smoothed out to a flat ring all around. Now on to the flavor. This cigar had that typical maduro zest to it. A few puffs left a creamy sweetness but overall the flavor stayed consistent throughout the entire smoke. The last third of the cigar very smokeable, although still pretty singular in flavor. My final opinion is that this cigar is a very solid double maduro, albeit not an extremely exciting one. I hope that the next sticks I smoke develop more of that sweetness that I tasted on a few puffs with age, but even if they don't, this is still a very good, bang-for-your-buck cigar.