Cigar: Liga Privada T-52
Vitola / Wrapper / Binder: Toro
Drink / Food: Great Lakes Brewery Edmund Fitzgerald
Outside Factors: Out in shop; cold crappy evening
Construction: Very nice roll, smoothly done with a great finished cap. Nice bunching at foot. Very firm throughout without any soft spots. A couple of stems under cap cause for hard cut.
Prelight : Very light scent to wrapper, reminiscent of something from the spice cabinet. End smells of richly scented tobacco. Prelight draw is good with a fresh, minty flavor.
First Third: Cigar lights easily with dense clouds of volumous smoke. Flavors kick off with dry cedar and spice; raisins and oak on the finish. Some warming pepper on the throat, not overpowering.
Draw: almost perfect
Burn: not razor sharp, but no corrections necessary. Never needed relit.
Ash/Smoke: Ash splits from the beginning, but is a pretty gray color and solid and dense. Smoke is full and flavorful
Second Third: Not normally a cedar fan, but here it is working well with the other flavors in concert. Rich earthiness comes in. Wrapper splits from cut to band. Could be humidity issue in humidor. Still draws well. Cigar continues to smoke cool and slow.
Final third: I now have to hold the cigar to keep from losing wrapper above band. The body of the cigar has built to full now, and flavors are dense and creamy. No bite near end and stays to cool burning throughout.
Strength: med/full Flavor: med/full
Overall Impression: Even though no real “wow” factor jumped out at me, this cigar has all the makings of a top ten candidate. Complexity, flavor, construction, draw, burn, added up to an extremely enjoyable cigar. I had not smoked one of these since reviewing a prototype; and if I remember correctly, this had many of the same qualities. Definitely worth a try if you haven’t yet. I can recommend this stick to anyone who enjoys fuller cigars.
Construction: 9 10
Prelight: 5 5
First Third: 14 15
Draw: 10 10
Burn: 9 10
Ash / Smoke: 9 10
Second Third: 8 10
Final Third: 8 10
Overall impression: 18 20
Total Score: 90 100


Edit: fixed "Lige" in title to "Liga".

Nice photo and review.

BTW, what's a Lige Privada? lol.

Dang, good thing I didn't punk JPotts for his Liga Privida review on the hut!

I diggem, had a couple LP9 and T52 toro's always delicious, just a hair pricey to buy any quantity.

Hello Lou, nice photo and review.

I get the LP9 Robbies at $175 a box (of 24 I think). Pricey? I guess, but they have NEVER let me down. I will always have a box on hand as long as I smoke cigars.

Lil too pricey for me to get a whole box......That is a nice price tho....any chance you wana box split?

Any photo that covers up most of my face is a good one!

Good review as always, Lou.....

Any day of the week and twice on Sunday, bro.

When you are ready, PM me and we will work out the details.

Thanks Jim, make sure you stay around. I'm getting ready..............

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Lou always has good reviews. Unlike the old fart in the sip....

1st off, nice review

What a DA, just looked at the photo quick and though it was a hat covering an ashtray, didnt realize someone, (you), was under the hat. lol
Just gave me a chuckle, figured I'd share

Wait, you actually think that changes anything?

Been called worse.. So what do U use that gerbil for????

A loofah.












Nah, seriously... two screaming gerbils and a hamster with a broken foot was the running joke about a detroit diesel generator that was in very bad shape on the last vessel I was the C/E on. Among other problems, the governor was just about shot and it had a cracked exhaust line, so it would hunt up and down in RPM causing the voltage to go up and down and the cracked exhaust line would "thunder".

I liked the loofah answer better.LOL

Pretty interesting(and funny)

Thanks. I took some pics with my hand up by the cigar, but I didn't get the angle or lighting right in those.