Smoked: El Gueguense The Wise Man

Smoked at: Wetherington, Ohio

El Gueguense robusto is a medium-full bodied, medium strength cigar. The Initially flavors include spice, cedar peanuts & almonds, mild chocolate sweetness but it starts out rather harsh. It does settle into a more balanced taste of earth, wood, almonds and dried fruit (raisins?) with pepper more prevalent. Earthy. Leather and more prominent spice emerge on the final third.

Now the construction on the first El Gueguense Wise Man I smoked was subpar: The burn line was uneven throughout requiring numerous touch ups. The ash fell off several times. It burned rather slowly for a robusto and there was a soft spot that interfered with the burn. So the construction gets a 2 – rather disappointing given the hype on this cigar.

This stick burned more eventy with no burn line or wrapper issues. The burn line wasn't perfect, but acceptable.

This is a good cigar. I prefer the El Gueguense The Wise Man maduro.