I rolled a puro from Don's criollo 98 yesterday, half ligero, 1 viso 2 seco, wrapped it in a maduro wrapper. It was about a 35 ring or so. Anyway, my daughter woke up from her nap just as I finished so I popped it in my mouth to hold it together while I got her ready to go in the pool.
I was tasting it unlit, kind of unconsciously drawing it while I got everything ready, and dammed if it didn't remind me of dark chocolate. This little 5 x 35 cigar lasted about 45-60 minutes and was just about the most flavorful one ever. It had notes of dark chocolate for the first 10 minutes that have way to pepper and cedar as it burned down. I ended up just sitting down and enjoying it. It was fantastic.
For those of you that have smoked a puro of both, would you say they have a similar flavor profile? I have seeds for vuelta but not criollo 98, and want to recreate this awesome cigar again, think I can do it with what I have? I noticed all the Cuban offspring have that similar flavor, I just wanted to be sure before next spring that the vuelta does too.
My wife normally gets me cigars for holidays, I told her to nix that, just get me whole leaf tobacco next time. Generally in the samplers she gets there is a couple really good ones, few medium ones and the rest I don't mind sharing with her dad hehe. That cigar yesterday was way better than the best I've had recently, I'm out of the Nicaraguan viso so got used to the real mild seco smokes and this was just a slice of heaven.
I just wanted to see if I grew the vuelta specifically for puros if anyone that's tried both thinks it'll make a cigar that is a close flavor to the criollo 98. Thanks
I was tasting it unlit, kind of unconsciously drawing it while I got everything ready, and dammed if it didn't remind me of dark chocolate. This little 5 x 35 cigar lasted about 45-60 minutes and was just about the most flavorful one ever. It had notes of dark chocolate for the first 10 minutes that have way to pepper and cedar as it burned down. I ended up just sitting down and enjoying it. It was fantastic.
For those of you that have smoked a puro of both, would you say they have a similar flavor profile? I have seeds for vuelta but not criollo 98, and want to recreate this awesome cigar again, think I can do it with what I have? I noticed all the Cuban offspring have that similar flavor, I just wanted to be sure before next spring that the vuelta does too.
My wife normally gets me cigars for holidays, I told her to nix that, just get me whole leaf tobacco next time. Generally in the samplers she gets there is a couple really good ones, few medium ones and the rest I don't mind sharing with her dad hehe. That cigar yesterday was way better than the best I've had recently, I'm out of the Nicaraguan viso so got used to the real mild seco smokes and this was just a slice of heaven.
I just wanted to see if I grew the vuelta specifically for puros if anyone that's tried both thinks it'll make a cigar that is a close flavor to the criollo 98. Thanks