Cigar Review–La Sirena
Posted By Lucas Woith on February 7, 2011
Cigar Review By:
Lucas Woith
As part of this blog, I plan on reviewing at least one cigar a week. Some of them will be new cigars and some will have been out on the market for a while. Over the years, my palate for cigars has sharpened and evolved. I am now able to pull different taste characteristics out of a cigar that I never could before.
Cigar reviews always confused me. When I first started smoking cigars, I wondered how people could taste leather, chocolate, coffee, etc in a cigar. I tasted…tobacco. And smoke.
For my cigar reviews for this blog, I’m going to give sort of an everyday man’s version of a cigar review…something that will be helpful and informative for all levels of cigar smokers.
The cigar for my maiden review is the La Sirena, made by Miami Cigar & Company at the My Father factory in Nicaragua. First off, I am a HUGE fan of just about everything coming out of the My Father factory. Don Pepin is a genus in the cigar world, and he consistently turns out some of the best sticks around.
The first thing you notice about most cigars is the wrapper. While the La Sirena features a beautiful Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro wrapper, with slight veins, the first thing you notice about this cigar is the band. It’s a piece of art, and on a robusto takes up over half the cigar.
La Sirena is the first full bodied cigar in the Miami Cigar lineup, and it does so by using Nicaraguan Corojo and Criollo for the filler, as well as a Nicaraguan Habano and Corojo dual binder. I love the corojo leaf as a wrapper, and it works out tremendously as filler and binder on this cigar. You get a sense of the oils that make the corojo leaf so delicious, but you also get a slight sweetness from the broadleaf wrapper.
Upon lighting the cigar, I was immediately overtaken by a chocolate aroma, along with a slight fruit flavor that was hard to discern. It wasn’t citrus, and I didn’t really get berry from it, but it was very pleasant, and a good companion to the chocolate flavor. The draw was stellar, and as I smoked the entire robusto, I never once had burn or draw issues.
As I approach the second third of the cigar, I realize that the fruit aroma I had been trying to put a finger on is apple. At this point in the cigar, the apple is mixing with a touch of the chocolate flavor, but the dominating flavor I’m experiencing is strong espresso. This continues through to the end of the cigar, which I completely nub.
My overall verdict of this cigar…must try. It’s powerful enough for the full bodied cigar enthusiast, but it’s not overpowering. I probably wouldn’t pick this to be the first cigar you ever smoke…but it is a must try.
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