Lately I've smoked a few AJ Fernandez blends and so far I liked all of them, so I had high expectations when one of my smoking buddies came by my house with a box of La Herencia Cubana oscuro fuerte robusto. And a nice looking box I might add, simple but not an ordinary cab.

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The 5.5 x 54 robusto has a pretty dark broadleaf maduro wrapper grown in Pennsylvania has hardly no veins. A Nicaraguan binder and filler from Esteli, Condega and Jalapa in Nicaragua finish this cigar. The double band is quite stylish, yet not overdone. The construction feels good and the cigar produces a nice barnyard aroma. The predraw is fine and leaves a peppery raisin flavor in my mouth.

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I can taste a strong coffee flavor, more espresso then normal coffee and maybe a little too strong for my taste, it's borderline. After a centimeter I can taste a little bit of chocolate as an aftertaste. The texture of the flavors are dry.

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I can also taste a wooden flavor through the espresso and slowly the espresso fades away a bit so that the wood becomes the dominant flavor.

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Halfway there is a nice balance between the coffee and the wood flavors and the aftertaste is chocolate again, but really mild. At 2/3rd some herbal flavors join the coffee and wood, and slowly those herbs grow to become the dominant flavor, perfectly supported by the coffee and wood.

The draw is fine, just like the burn. The amount of medium thick smoke is insane, it is a good thing that my smoke alarm isn't working, or the fire department would have been paying a visit. The salt and pepper colored ash is firm but crooked. This cigar is full bodied and full flavored, the flavors are very bold and "in your face". I had a little nicotine buzz going on.

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Would I buy this cigar again? Oh yeah!! Another fine AJ Fernandez blend and available for $3 a piece.

Appearance: 7 / 10
Construction: 7 / 10
Draw: 7 / 10
Burn: 7 / 10
Smoke & ash: 8 / 10
Aroma first part: 7 / 10
Aroma second part: 8 / 10
Aroma third part: 7 / 10
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Kinda wondering about these, thanks.
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Nice Ferdie....AJ is really hitting the mark.....and at good price points to boot!..."Centimeter"?....had to get out my Dutch -to-English dictionary for that one! :-):-)
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yeah well Keith, time that you start to use metric system.
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Nice review, Ferdie. I have a 5er of these resting, can't wait to try one!
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hahaha....I remember as a kid there was talk of it....:-)
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that is a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time ago :-)
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:-):-)....hey wait a minute!...:-)
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I smoked through a 5er of the toros and loved them. I am becoming more and more of an AJ fan...been smoking Padilla Habanos like crazy lately. Need to get some more LHC oscuros! :-)
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Nice review, gonna have to pick some of these up.:-)
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I bought a fiver of these, smoked one that was a week old and just bought a box. Yup AJ is making some great stuff for song.
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Nice review Ferdie. Been curious about these...they do look tasty. :-)

Just pulled the trigger on a box!! :-)
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A sleeper smoke.
Got a box of toros from Cbid, and it's a stout whopper of a box.
First few cigars were strong but flatliners. A bit of rest must have helped. Each of the past 5 Oscuro toros have been delicious. Good power and surprising complexity with a vibrant choco-coffee tang. And the construction echoes the box -- these babies are firm.
Got to get some more.
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how do these compare to diesels?
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I havn't had a diesel (I have some coming tommorow though!) but have heard the diesel is more diesel. Just what I heard I'll let you know tommorow.
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I like both alot but IMO the LHCOF is a little tastier than the Diesel.
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If that's true then the LHCOF's are
Great value.
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I've gotten two boxes of these so far on c-bid for under 40 bucks each. For that price you can't even begin to compare this to the Diesel. That being said, I the that the LHCOF beats it heads up.
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Okay, so I had this thing sitting in my cooler for awhile. I was very hesitant to smoke it because the Diesel just sucked to me...

smoking it right now and wow is it 10x better then the Diesel.
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I disagree about the Diesel but yeah, these LHCOFs are phenomenal. Smoked a beli today and it was great. Need to get some more, I'm almost out...
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