Victor Sinclair Series 55 Green Robusto Review

[Da Klugs]

Introduction
This Victor Sinclair Series 55 Green robusto has been sitting in the humi since May of last year. I smoked everything else in the first sampler I got except this one. I highly recommend these samplers of 10 cigars for $ 25 a real buffet of different flavors sizes and complexity they have some sticks which are difficult to find on their own as well.

Pre-Light Ruminations
These cigars are called series 55 due to their 5 country blend of tobacco and 5 year aging. They come in three wrapper variations with the same filler. Red – Corojo, Blue – Maduro and Green – Sun grown. This Series 55 Green robusto came in a best of Victor Sinclair sampler I got in May of 2004 when buying something from CI probably one of the seemingly infinite K Hansotia brands. I’d love to see the Christmas gift he must receive from Torano. These are real firm well rolled cigars which seem mature when they first arrive. This one was sitting innocently in the bottom on one of my humi drawers until singled out for cremation this morning.

Initial Thoughts
Nice firm cigar for cutting. Nipped clean with no stragglers. This is a pretty cigar with a lush band. Nice pre light taste hard to place the flavor but you know there is something good coming once you light up. Draw was perfect.

Smoking Experience
Light was good and from the first puff you get a nice flavor profile. This is a medium bodied cigar that always lets you know this isn’t your fathers Macanudo. I have smoked lots of the red – corojo sticks but this was the first sun grown green for me. The color (green band) did something psychologically to me that prevented earlier smoking. The burn was excellent. This is one of those robusto size cigars that burn as long as many toro or even Churchill size of other sticks. Took about an hour to smoke the whole thing. The series 55 sticks always have more flavors going on for me than your typical cigar. Maybe it’s the 5 country blend but its not your typical “coffee, leather, espresso kind of sensations”. Its more like waves of things crashing on your palate. There are a lot of flavors moving around and you can pick one out depending on what your looking for. Kind of neat. I think these are a very refined, and different smoke than most other inexpensive cigars. Given their density thought they might draw a little tight but not once in the many of the 55 series has this been the case. Near the end got more intense but never went to pure spice and that’s nice.

Final Thoughts
I liked it. Buy the sampler for $ 25 you won’t be sorry there are some other interesting sticks in it well worth a try.

[MM2(SW)S]

Nice review. I like the Red – Corojo a little better than the green and blue lables.

[Da Klugs]

Originally Posted by MM2(SW)S

Nice review. I like the Red – Corojo a little better than the green and blue lables.

For me its Red, Green, Blue but they all are good. The hellfire, revolution and sidewinder are interesting sticks from the sampler as well. I've got a full one in the humi post a pic here tonight.