Well due to the popularity of the De Liga Privada line these have been a little hard to get for me. My local b&m had some LP9 Toro's and Beli's but there long gone and i've pretty much accepted that i'm not going to see any of these soon.
Until....
My impromptu road trip to find a grocery-go-getter for the wife to be....
So im in Chattanooga TN at a pretty nice B&M and they have it all.....
Not trying to spend our car money on sticks I decide on 3 to take with me, a dirty rat, at t-52 pig, and a tat noella.
So I go burn the rat first....being that im writing this after the fact I am not including a full review, but I will say that I would buy thee rat again. Construction was perfect, burn was perfect, draw was a hair tight, but taste was very nice and aroma was memorable.
The noella was nice and I would purchase again, construction was nice, burn went a bit uneven but draw was easy with plenty of smoke.
The star of the 3 was the pig, The pig is one attractive stick, nice dark oily, leathery wrapper, draw is easy but not too light, smoke is abundant, ash is pretty although a hair flakey. Flavor developed nicely starting with a bit of pepper/spice and mellowing quickly into rich tobacco sweetness with typical habano earthiness/barnyard/leathery deal in the forefront. Burn was ok, being that it was a little uneven at times but it didn't effect the experience and corrected itself before intervention was necessary. The further I got into the stick the flavor profile added some caramel/cocoa sweetness in the background. The time of the smoke experience was a bit of a surprise, i figured it would be a 30 minute smoke, which it was not, took a good hour. All in all 3 good experiances.
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