Room 101 Serie SA Papi Chulo
Room 101 Serie SA Papi Chulo
Country: Honduras
Size: Papi Chulo (a petit corona, 4x42)
Wrapper: San Andres (Mexico)
Made by Camacho
Price: $5
Resting 6 months with 65% Boveda
Pre-light and cold draw were lighter than expected - just mild tobacco flavor and some cocoa. Very easy, loose draw, which I wasn't crazy about. The wrapper's kind of funky looking. Rustic, as they say, with some little cracks.
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1st 3rd:
Cocoa is up front, with some pepper. There's initial bitterness but it smooths out.
Bread. I never got that when people say their cigars taste like bread, but I tasted it here.
Lots of smoke for such a little guy, medium strength
Very woody - not cedar, but oak maybe. Or baobob or monkey puzzle tree or Syrian spruce.
The damn thing went out.
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2nd 3rd:
Very woody, like burning logs, and strangely enough, tobacco flavor.
Wavy burn. Answered the door for a UPS package and in just that short time it went out again.
Chocolate, more pepper, a nice richness, raisins.
There's some throat-constricting peppery bitterness for a while, then it smooths out again.
Then it goes kind of weird: petroleum, charred hogs knuckles.
Then it's okay again: wood, chocolate. Chocolate burning on a log.
Random floral, perfume flavor for a minute, which disappears like a ghostly wisp of fog.
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3rd 3rd:
Went out again!
Wood. Leather. maybe that leather has been there all along, come to think of it.
Burning leather. Strength closer to full. Bitter again.... went out again.... :chargrined:
So fairly consistent throughout.....
This was my first Room 101, and first San Andreas wrapper, and though I enjoyed it part of the time I found it kind of disappointing - especially the burn issues. Not sure I'd be eager to try this one again - there are too many cigars I enjoy a lot more, and life's too short. Maybe the larger vitolas are better, but for a small smoke I'd take a Short Story over this any day. I have an HN serie in the humi, and hopefully I'll like that one better.
