The first draw delivers a complex blend of butter-leather creme brulee sweetness to the front of the palate, merengue key lime pie tartness to the middle palate, and notes of table-cooked bananas foster to the back of the palate. However, the flavors do not sit on the palate, instead choosing to circle it in a counter-clockwise dub step, yet never mixing, and recur in 18 second intervals. The rolling waves of smoke then exit the nose slowly and with precision, like Horn Elementary School students during a fire drill.
This dark long lonsdale, from tobacco grown on the east side of Pinar Del Rio, behind the farm that used to be owned by the family of Manny Lopez, comes from seventh generation corojo seeds previously smuggled to Spanish Honduras in a rich Corinthian leather diplomatic pouch.
The grandchildren of the seeds returned to Cuba after two years of wild sex in the highlands between Santa Rosa de Copan and Santa Barbara next to Lucy Mejia's beauty salon in search for jineteras at the Hotel Nacional in Havana. At the Nacional, they loitered and talked leather with the many Gallegos, Romans, and chicken pluckers from Little Rock before boarding the roof of a Camello bus for Pinar Del Rio, enabling them to enjoy five hours of sultry tropical weather.
The aroma emanating from this oily, pock-marked maduro has intonations of organically processed sauteed asparagus, young roast suckling pig cooked to leathery perfection in a Cuban "Caja China" lined with virgin banana plants (grown in the farm previously owned by the family of the said Manny Lopez), with undertones of whole ripe mangoes picked from the side of the road at the El Yunque National Park in Puerto Rico, which is unfortunately not located in Cuba because of the American embargo.
This supple, leathery cigar is soft to the touch, especially around the savory head, which is surprisingly large, meaty, good-looking, offering just the right amount of resistance to the draw. It is rolled to perfection by virgins handpicked by El Comandante himself from J.C. Penney in Detroit, wearing only supple leather bridles. Summary of the Cohiba Behike: A luscious leathery leather lonsdale.
Mamey
Excellent post by Mamey! It is, however, lacking the qualitative summary of a CS rating and is slightly deficient on stick flavor details. I also had trouble connecting the dots between the Horn Elementary fire drill and street-lined jineteras. I'm concerned that Mamey's geopolitico naivete led him to believe that El Yunque mountain range would reside in Cuba, RATHER than Puerto Rico, were it not for the American embargo on Cuba! Utter nonsense! Fetch that Mamey boy some meds please! Doesn't he know that the it is NOT AN EMBARGO but rather punishment for Castro's confiscation of US property.
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