Mandoman
Sunday, September 5, 2010 3:16:00 PM
I recently attended a meeting of our local cigar club. The owner of one of the local B&M gave all the members one of these. I copied this info from the manufacturers site:

"The new A. Turrent Puro Maduro is named "Triple Play" because the entire blend - wrapper, binder and long fillers – is comprised of fine, hand-selected maduro tobaccos. An ultra-premium San Andrés Morrón wrapper surrounds a blackened Connecticut Broadleaf binder and long fillers from Nicaragua, San Andrés and Honduras."

I fired one up. I found it to be a good smoke, not great, but good.2921195.jpg

jackconrad
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 9:22:00 AM
I always thought they were Mexican..
rasdas
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 9:36:00 AM
I thought the A. Turrent brand was being pushed as a wholly Mexican cigar as well...
tonycsmoke
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 1:38:00 PM
A.Turrent is rolled in Mexico. The original A.Turrents were pretty good cigars. They could be hit or miss but more often good. They were one of the first Mexican cigars to have tobacco from another country as part of the blend. This was after they got rid a heavy tax on imported tobacco.

The San Andreas Valley grows pretty good tobacco. San Andreas Maduro is in a ton of cigars (Padron etc). I've been curious as they started growing some habano wrapper. Should be a great wrapper.

hoyodude
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 2:55:00 PM
Not sure that one would hit my flavor profile but I really like the regular line and the Cuban Blend (same company that produces all the Te-Amo's). Two of my favorite "bang-for-the-buck" smokes.
rasdas
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 5:08:00 PM
Yaup, every year every single crop is sold out from the San Andreas valley and it does go to many top shelf companies...

But again, thought A. Turrent's deal was that the whole cigar was with Mexican crop...do have to give this a shot as i am curious now...

Stinkdyr
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 1:54:24 PM
I just had one gifted to me by Altadis. As usual with Altadis, the construction was flawless. I wish they made a corona size, but hey, as a beggar, I was not choosy. The volume of smoke was low, but I am more concerned with flavor. Surprisingly, the flavor was not really maduro-ish to me. But more of a very pleasant baking spice flavor, a la RPV92 flavor. I liked it a lot. Smooth with a clean finish, med body. No nic kick.

If made in corona vitola, I would buy some. Definitely worth a try if you see them.

gimbel
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 3:29:18 PM
I just received one of these yesterday, may have to smoke it this weekend.