Picked this up yesterday at a B&M, the box was near the bottom shelf and tucked back a little, glad I looked a little.
Chocolate brown wrapper, fairly oily and very dense in the hand. Prelight had a very nice aroma, much like the big red building that houses horses and other farm animals.
Upon lighting your taste buds are smacked and I mean smacked with pepper, just like the Pepins. The pepper is strong, under the pepper is earth and it mixes well, very well. Beautiful burn, straight and sharp. The ash holds tight, rolled it off at about the 2 inch mark.
Past the halfway point the pepper is still the main flavor, but the earth has made way for a semi-sweet taste, which I thought was even better than the pepper and earth at the start. Still burning great, no problems and no flakes of ash.
Smoked it down till the goatee was starting to smolder, great cigar, I think this is now my favorite RP. I love the Edge and OWR, ok and the Decade...and the sun grown, but this one IMO tops them. I can't wait to try the Brothers cigar as well.
The Saints Halo-meter:
Stength: 9 halos
Construction: 9 halos
Value: 8 halos ( only 6 bucks for a robusto, not bad in my book.)
If you see this at the local B&M or online, pick some up, WELL worth the coin!
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Digging up an old thread here... but I just had a 1961 this last weekend.
I loved it. Definitely a good smoke. Not sure I picked up on as strong of pepper... but it was a strong bodied cigar (for me). I did get a little "sweetening" about half-way through, which I always enjoy. I'll have to work on picking up the nuances more (I still can't blow smoke through my nose without coughing for 5 minutes afterwards).
I wanted to ask for others that have had these where they'd rank the "strength" (not nec. the flavor) because it hit me hard -- I may not have eaten much before smokin' but still....
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:-) I Reviewed The Toro Here:
