Smoked: Rojas Breakfast Tacos Petit Salomon

Smoked at: West Chester, Ohio

Rojas Breakfast Tacos Petit Salomon has a Nicaraguan binder and Nicaraguan filler covered in a darkish tan Ecuador Connecticut wrapper with a few visible raised veins. This thing is petite at 4.5 x 44. The cigar band is the Rojas standard fiesta-themed orange, black and gold with the mustachioed voodoo skeleton skull.

The cigar is a small perfecto with a nipple on the foot – left it on and lit it. Tricky when you’re dealing with a Connecticut wrapper. Yes, I scorched the nipple and the tapered foot a bit but no harm – no foul. (Getting ready for the basketball tournament.)

Tight draw, of course, with the tiny ring guage at the cap. Several very carefully applied toothpick pokes kept it open. The burn line was generally uneven. The smoke production was adequate. The ash was solid at times, flaky at others. Hard to judge construction issues with a small salomon-perfecto.

Flavors: cedar, honey cinnamon sweetness, baking spices, pepper, earth, grass/hay, and vegetal notes. There’s a faint hint of fruit, berry sweetness blending into the honey and cinnamon plus some roasted nuts midway into the first third. Add leather, charred and musty/mossy notes mixing with the wood during the second third. The retrohale has an interesting doughy sweetness mingling with the cedar and pepper. The body is mild to medium-mild. Strength is medium.

Rojas Breakfast Tacos is not very complex but it is balanced with cedar, spice and a honey sweetness leading the flavor profile. This is exactly the kind of cigar to pair with a cup of morning coffee.