To celebrate their 30 years anniversary Padron released the 1964 series, a limited release with Nicaraguan tobacco from their own farm. They released them with 2 different wrappers, a Nicaraguan maduro and a Nicaraguan Habano.

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I decided to light up a torpedo with the Habano wrapper. The wrapper looks awesome, nice & dark, smooth and silky. The size of this baby is 6 x 52. It’s hard to measure the ring size as it is box pressed. The cigar has a barnyard aroma. The predraw is good and leaves a raisin flavor on my lips.

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The cigar gives me a nice coffee flavor, quite full of strength and after a centimeter I also get some chocolate and a bit of a metallic flavor far far away in the aftertaste.

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The chocolate becomes the dominant flavor and grows in strength with just a hint of coffee in the background. This is the flavor that sticks around till somewhere between 1/2 and 2/3rd of the cigar. There the support flavor turns to spices. The chocolate becomes very creamy and gets mixed up with some nut flavors.

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This full flavored medium to full bodied cigar wowed me, what a flavors. I also got a lot of medium thick smoke and firm medium gray ash. The draw was good and I have nothing bad to say about the burn. Good quality stick.

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Would I buy this cigar again? If I can find them reasonably priced, hell yeah! This is one of the best smokes I ever had.

Appearance: 8 / 10
Construction: 8 / 10
Draw: 8 / 10
Smoke & ash: 7 / 10
Burn: 7 / 10
Aroma (first part) 8 / 10
Aroma (middle part) 9 / 10
Aroma (last part) 8 / 10
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Great review buddy! And yes they are fantastic :-)

aj
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Ferdie.....just a scroll down to your last pic sez it all!.....Now THATS a NUB!! :-)
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Great review of a great smoke! Thanks!
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I snagged two of the maddies from Taboo a while back. Gifted one, smoked the other. I hate to say it, but after smoking mine, I kinda wished I hadn't given the other one away. :-)
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and I kinda wished that you gave it to me :-) :-)
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It actually went to MedicCook at a herf. He'd had a b'day *and* landed a new job just prior to the herf. To his credit, he turned me on to Kristoff maddies, so I figure we're even. :-)
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It's close between the PAMs vs. PANs on any given day for me.:-)
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Sounds tasty! Nice review. I've only had the maduros before, and they are awesome smokes.
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