Review - Partagas Spanish Rosado

[Texan_To_The_End]

DATE: 2006/06/11
REVIEWER: Timothy "Texan_To_The_End" Piper
CIGAR: Partagas Spanish Rosado
SIZE: 5.50 X 52
ORIGIN: Honduran
WRAPPER: Honduran
BINDER: Dom, Hon, Mex
FILLER: Hon, Conn
SHAPE: Robusto (called San Agustin)
AGE: In my humidor since 2006/05/21
VENDOR: Gifted by my son.
PRICE: Current retail is $5.00 each.
AMBIENCE: 8AM Sunday morning. Warm, not so humid and very still.
BEVERAGE: Coffee - black. NOTE: This cigar just did *not* go well
with coffee. To be fair, I dumped the coffee, rinsed my
mouth and just stuck with the cigar.
APPEARANCE: Rather light weight cigar; with a lumpy veiny corojo type
of wrapper. Didn't look so well built.
PRE_LIGHT: Smelled good and tasted like sugar cane and fresh hay.
DRAW: Partagas almost always have a perfect draw...
FIRST_THIRD: Tasted a bit "young" to me; and put off an earthy, grassy
sort of flavor. The wrapper tasted a little bitter for
the first inch or so.
SECOND_THIRD: Started getting a bit peppery on the tongue, and flavors
stayed the same, but a bit one-dimensional.
FINAL_THIRD: Developed a bit on the sweet hay tones, but just a little
and not until the end of the cigar. Too bad as otherwise
it was pretty good.
BURN: Burned even but a bit fast.
ASH: Mottled grey very flakey ash with yellow center.
SMOKE: Not a lot of smoke, and a bit bland.
STRENGTH: Mild to medium at the end.
FLAVOUR: Grassy, earthy and sweet, but didn't really develop.
FINISH: The grassy tastes lasted a short while, but wasn't good
enough for me to further delay some coffee.
SMOKE_TIME: One hour even.
IMPRESSION: Perhaps I was just so impressed by the recent Partagas
Black, that I had higher expectations for this stick.
No, I think that the Spanish Rosado is just a taste
profile that I find less attractive than the dark
heavy smokes.
RATING: 6 out of a possible TEN wooden matchsticks.
COMMENTS: A pretty fair cigar, but a bit one dimensional. Could
improve with some age, or could be dynamite for somebody
with different tastes than I have.
PICTURES: http://tinyurl.com/kjesd

[mhillsing23]

I recently picked one of these up as a Partagas 3-Pack Sampler. I will let this guy hibernate before I get to it. Thank you for sharing the review!

[Texan_To_The_End]

Originally Posted by mhillsing23

I recently picked one of these up as a Partagas 3-Pack Sampler. I will let this guy hibernate before I get to it. Thank you for sharing the review!

This got me to wonderin'... When I finally get a full stock of cigars (I don't think this will take less than forty years) that I like, will my tastes suddenly change to where I can't stand the things I already have? Then I'd have to start all over again...

[Funnymantrip]

Originally Posted by Texan_To_The_End

This got me to wonderin'... When I finally get a full stock of cigars (I don't think this will take less than forty years) that I like, will my tastes suddenly change to where I can't stand the things I already have? Then I'd have to start all over again...

I hate to say it but yes they will. When I got started this Partagas Spanish Rosado was the top of the mountian to me. Along with the CAO Brazillia I could not find a better cigar. I considered myself 'cigar rich' if I had 2 Partagas SR in the bag behind the bar. I had one of these last xmas while hanging at the b/m, did not like it at all.
Durning the rest of my cigar smoking I know I have been through at least 2 maduro phases, and Edge Phase, a sungrown phase, a corojo phase, an isom phase, a fuente phase, a cigar bid gurkha phase, and my favorite phase of all the anejo phase after my birthday. Look at the bright side, if you start hating stuff thats in your humi, you will become very popular at the b/m.

[Texan_To_The_End]

Originally Posted by Funnymantrip

I hate to say it but yes they will. When I got started this Partagas Spanish Rosado was the top of the mountian to me. Along with the CAO Brazillia I could not find a better cigar. I considered myself 'cigar rich' if I had 2 Partagas SR in the bag behind the bar. I had one of these last xmas while hanging at the b/m, did not like it at all.
Durning the rest of my cigar smoking I know I have been through at least 2 maduro phases, and Edge Phase, a sungrown phase, a corojo phase, an isom phase, a fuente phase, a cigar bid gurkha phase, and my favorite phase of all the anejo phase after my birthday. Look at the bright side, if you start hating stuff thats in your humi, you will become very popular at the b/m.

Or here at Club Stogie...