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Romeo y Julieta Cazadores
Size: 162 x 44 ? Cazadores
Smoke time: 1hour 30mins
Box date: 2006 (I think) Source: Bigboned (Andy).
Appearance: Currently the only unbanded Cuban Lonsdales, the Cazadores sported a toothy, dark brown and mottled with black, oily wrapper carrying several raised veins and one or two water spots. The rolling of the cigar was not perfectly cylindrical and there was the sight banana bending from the middle.
Construction: The cigar felt very unevenly packed, it was alarmingly yielding in some areas and had one very hard spot, about an inch length at and below the head. The cigar roll for the most part almost seamless and the triple cap seemed perfectly applied. The pre-draw was gently resistive and the smoking draw, despite the heavy packing at the head, smooth and untroubled. The burn for the most part was straight with just a little side wander in the final third. The grey ash remained compact throughout. No re-lights, no corrections.
Flavour: The pre-light aroma was very strong ? musky barnyard hay. The Cazadores start was I thought very conducive and very engageing. Light citrus over wood with the barest hint of raisin. The flavour strength I would catagorise as Light/Medium and balance I felt was perfectly poised. The smoke itself was smooth and soft, and from the very beginning was leaving a light refreshing lemon sweetness in my mouth and that?s still there even now. During the first third I did get occasional tastes of aniseed and green pepper, but in the main the flavour was lemon/wood which gathered in some intensity as the third progressed. In the second third the lemon/wood became a little dryer and I could pick-out some nuttiness, (almost like Walnut ice-cream), and the Cazadores still retained a good measure of sweetness and ?twang? in the lemon/wood base. Drifting comfortably into the last third and the wood taste took on a more leathery aspect, and so it smoked along with the lemon gradually disappearing and with the leather very pronounced in retro hale. Delicious from start to finish.
Overall: A very good cigar, in fact a little more than that, it?s an excellent cigar. On this smoking, very flavoursome and very mellow and as you can see by what little there was left, very pleasurable. I was expecting a heavier nicotine hit, but having fortified myself with cafe bought Full English, it never really came. Andy was correct, his ageing had softened out the raw strength and I experienced no discomforts whatsoever. I smoked it outdoors (coming in only to take photographs), and I think that?s its place. Perfect as a night time bonfires smoke, for BBQs or just watching a parks football match now that terraces no longer exist and smoking is banned at League grounds. I haven?t mentioned hunting as I?ve never done any, but yes I can imagine the appeal of sitting by a campfire, roasting up a wild boar while smoking a Cazadores and shareing a few beers and macho lies with a bunch of mates.
Newbee note. Yes you could smoke one of these, but only if you age it for as long and in the manner that Andy has. A young one will probably send you to A&E.
Marks. This afternoon, I?m scoring the Cazadores a well deserved 7.3, and keeping the Partagas 898 as still the one to beat.
Next up, some serious opposition. Partagas de Partagas No 1.
Size: 162 x 44 ? Cazadores
Smoke time: 1hour 30mins
Box date: 2006 (I think) Source: Bigboned (Andy).
Appearance: Currently the only unbanded Cuban Lonsdales, the Cazadores sported a toothy, dark brown and mottled with black, oily wrapper carrying several raised veins and one or two water spots. The rolling of the cigar was not perfectly cylindrical and there was the sight banana bending from the middle.
Construction: The cigar felt very unevenly packed, it was alarmingly yielding in some areas and had one very hard spot, about an inch length at and below the head. The cigar roll for the most part almost seamless and the triple cap seemed perfectly applied. The pre-draw was gently resistive and the smoking draw, despite the heavy packing at the head, smooth and untroubled. The burn for the most part was straight with just a little side wander in the final third. The grey ash remained compact throughout. No re-lights, no corrections.
Flavour: The pre-light aroma was very strong ? musky barnyard hay. The Cazadores start was I thought very conducive and very engageing. Light citrus over wood with the barest hint of raisin. The flavour strength I would catagorise as Light/Medium and balance I felt was perfectly poised. The smoke itself was smooth and soft, and from the very beginning was leaving a light refreshing lemon sweetness in my mouth and that?s still there even now. During the first third I did get occasional tastes of aniseed and green pepper, but in the main the flavour was lemon/wood which gathered in some intensity as the third progressed. In the second third the lemon/wood became a little dryer and I could pick-out some nuttiness, (almost like Walnut ice-cream), and the Cazadores still retained a good measure of sweetness and ?twang? in the lemon/wood base. Drifting comfortably into the last third and the wood taste took on a more leathery aspect, and so it smoked along with the lemon gradually disappearing and with the leather very pronounced in retro hale. Delicious from start to finish.
Overall: A very good cigar, in fact a little more than that, it?s an excellent cigar. On this smoking, very flavoursome and very mellow and as you can see by what little there was left, very pleasurable. I was expecting a heavier nicotine hit, but having fortified myself with cafe bought Full English, it never really came. Andy was correct, his ageing had softened out the raw strength and I experienced no discomforts whatsoever. I smoked it outdoors (coming in only to take photographs), and I think that?s its place. Perfect as a night time bonfires smoke, for BBQs or just watching a parks football match now that terraces no longer exist and smoking is banned at League grounds. I haven?t mentioned hunting as I?ve never done any, but yes I can imagine the appeal of sitting by a campfire, roasting up a wild boar while smoking a Cazadores and shareing a few beers and macho lies with a bunch of mates.
Newbee note. Yes you could smoke one of these, but only if you age it for as long and in the manner that Andy has. A young one will probably send you to A&E.
Marks. This afternoon, I?m scoring the Cazadores a well deserved 7.3, and keeping the Partagas 898 as still the one to beat.
Next up, some serious opposition. Partagas de Partagas No 1.
all nice and marmitey 
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