Guest Quick Smoke: Por Larrañaga Petit Cetro en Cedro

Each Saturday and Sunday we’ll post a Quick Smoke: not quite a full review, just our brief take on a single cigar. The following is a Guest Quick Smoke, submitted by a StogieGuys.com reader. If you’d like to submit your own for publication, please contact us.

This handsome cigar (5.0625” x 38) comes with the signature gold Por Larrañaga band and is wrapped in a reddish cedar sleeve. After lighting I found a very faint flavor of cream with a hint of cedar. I actually wondered if maybe I’d made a mistake in buying this famously-mild cigar. A half inch or so later, though, all my doubts were gone. The flavor evolved into a soft, well-blended mix of caramel, cedar, tea, and smoke. This profile lasted throughout the 45-minute cigar, with the sweeter flavors most notable during the middle part of the smoke, and the final few puffs leaning more toward a dry, woody taste. There were occasional bouts of bitterness but I chalk these up to my being too eager to eek out every last bit of flavor from this beautiful cigar.

Verdict = Buy.

-Submitted by B. Brown from Providence, Rhode Island