With Tatuaje's tenth anniversary upon us, this maker of some of the finest Old-World Cuban style smokes around has come up with more than one special offering to mark the occasion. Amongst these are two new variations of their extremely popular "brown label" standard, this "Belle Encre" (Beautiful Ink) being one.
Size: 5.35 x 48
Wrapper: Nicaragua Corojo 99
Binder: Nicaragua
Filler: Nicaragua
One of my favorite stogies in a classic shape. Sweet almost floral on the start, builds in body with some spice, leather, cedar, but still smells sweet. Never turns bad with what I would call a burnt popcorn taste that lots of other cigars get toward... Read Mores the end. You definitely get your money's worth out of this one, but you may burn your fingers as you try to savor every last flavorful puff. Pepin Garcia knows how to make a good smoke. My only complaint would be that the stick I received was a little on the dry side with some of the cap starting to flake off. No biggie though, a bit of spit on the cap and a few weeks in the humidor and this bad boy will be ready to go! Read Less