Cigar: Taboo Twist Churchill
Size: 7 X 50
Appearance/Construction: A very attractive barber pole with a good solid feel, firmly springy, not soft or spongy.
Where: On the patio 80° and 71% humidity, so it feels like 82°. Very light breeze from NNE at 8 mph.
Drink: Coffee, sweetened with raw sugar and creamer.
Prelight Aroma, Draw and Taste: Sweet and mildly spicy tobacco aroma and taste and an excellent draw.
Light: Tiger butane.
First Impressions: Mmmmm. Fairly spicy at first but nowhere near overwhelmiing, with hints of nutty tastes in it's thick and plentiful white smoke.
First third: I like the taste of the other Taboo Twists from start to nub and so far this one is no different. Just after the first inch, about when the first ash drops, I get a caramel taste that shifts back and forth with a toasty nutty flavor. For me, this cigars just gets better and better as I smoke.
Second third: Here the cigar began to develope a richer spicier flavor at first. But then it shifted again and I started picking up a nutmeg like flavor and a sweet bread or grain-like taste like that of a naturally sweet cereal with nuts.
Final third: By this point, the flavor shifted back to a stronger spicier one with light hints of pepper and the other flavors all but faded, yielding to a fuller body with a more rich tobacco taste and a note of cedar in the fairly long finish.
Ash/Burn: Varies from white to light and dark gray and holds easily to about an inch and the burn was close to perfect, very even and consistent throughout.
Cost: $5.99. $5.50 on sale.
Final Comments: I find this cigar to have considerably complex character, especially considering it's lean to a mild/medium profile. It has a rich, flavorful and intregingly inviting aroma that is backed up by it's great taste. It gets a 10 from me.
Burn Time: Toasted the foot at 8:40 AM and completed at 10:34 AM on 6/21/2008.
08-04-2008, 04:26 PM
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Re: Review: Taboo Twist Churchill
Review: Taboo Twist Churchill
