My Medio Tiempo from La Gloria Cubana

Lab testing cigar

Medio Tiempo from La Gloria Cubana

For The Testing Lab, Cigar world

Tasted by Charles "Chuck" Creteau, LSW

Tasted at 2:30 pm 3/24/21

The cigar:

The Medio Tiempo Robusto at first glance is a very veiny cigar with pronounced midribs (Aka the stem) and a coffee color with a rough cap.

Cut and initial smell:

There is no pronounced legiero seen in the foot, smell pre-light has a slight mushroom/earthy scent that is reminiscent of some of my favorite cigars from the 90s during the cigar boom of that Era.

The light;

What better way then to light a new blend of La Gloria, then with my favorite La Gloria lighter!

Upon first lighting the cigar i am greeted with the strong smell of pepper and slight taste of barley. There is also a unnatural sweetness associated with the cigar as if it was stored near a flavored cigar of some sort, but not stong enough to say for sure.

As the cigar progresses it evens out on both burn and taste. The peppercorn finish smooths out to welcome charred almonds along its other robust tastes.

The cigar starts as full and evens out to a medium/full cigar.

There is a very slight bitterness to it making me wonder if this is not an ideal cigar to age a minimum of 6 months or more. Many with its flavor profile hold well and even become more melded with a slight aging to them. I would add that this cigar may be very desirable with a year or two added to it.

Flavors change and strong peppercorn subsides to a nice toasty taste with almonds and hickory smoke on the palate.

Strength 1 - 10 is a 8

Body 1-10 is a 8.5

Burn 1-100 is a 86

Taste 1-100 is a 87

Construction 1-100 is a 85

Considered a strong cigar but on the low end of the strong cigars.

Overall score is 87

Please note that in reference to the sweetness to the cigar that i think it was kept prior to delivery near something flavored or sweet. Something very different about the taste in my mouth.

Who is this cigar for:

In order to answer that I would need to know the price.

If this cigar retails for (Robusto) between $6.00-$8.99 it will have good sales.

You will need to do the following for this to be successful

A) make sure the infused taste i had is not intentional.

B) market to the average to budget smokers that enjoy full body peppery cigars and want to buy a reasonably priced cigar.

Pros: unique taste profile, decent burn, great story with the name, full bodied for the matured smoker, long time cigar smokers who like the pepper lacking in most cigars today will like this.

Cons: there was a infused taste with this, please let me know if it was intentional as it was light and not pronounced and likely stored near something.

Burned inventions, could use some age to it, very veiny.

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