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Carlos Toraño Noventa Santiago
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Matt
Origin : Nicaragua
Format : Robusto
Size : 5.0? x 50
Wrapper : Habano Nicaragua
Filler : Nicaraguan – Pueblo Nuevo, Esteli, Jalapa and Condega
Binder : Habano Nicaragua
Hand-Made
Price : $7 each
The Toraño Noventa was created in 2006 to celebrate 90 years of cigar heritage in the Toraño family. In 1916 the patriarch of the family, Don Santiago Toraño made the move from Spain to Cuba to begin his career in the cigar industry. Eventually his three sons joined him in the family business as the Toraños became of of the largest tobacco growers in Cuba. Like a lot of cigar and tobacco families in Cuba, they had to leave after the revolution when Castro nationalized the tobacco industry. The family moved their business to the Dominican Republic and eventually Carlos Jr. moved it again to Nicaragua where it now thrives.
The Noventa is made with 5 year old tobacco from the family farms. The cigars are then aged some more before being sent to market, but I could not find any information on how long that additional aging may be. The Santiago is a beautiful cigar wrapped in an oily light brown Habano leaf that looks like it was cut from a piece of expensive leather. It is well filled with not a hint of any rib veins in the filler. On the surface everything about this cigar says “top-shelf”, including the price tag. Besides carrying the Anniversary moniker, it also carries the anniversary MSRP around $11 a stick, but can be found significantly cheaper online.
The Santiago is refined and smooth right from the start. Medium bodied, but mild in strength, it delivers strong notes of nuts and leather with occasional flashes vanilla. The blueish smoke is a little thin but is still delivers plenty of flavor. It has a wonderful aroma that is surprisingly very sweet. It is unique because there is no sweetness to speak of in the flavors but it is very prominent in the aroma. About halfway through this cigar starts to behave like you’d expect a Nicaraguan Puro to behave. It starts to pick up delivering a bit of spice that replaces cream and nuts I tasted at the start. The spice mixes nicely with a woody core and it starts to develop a bit of strength that was missing in the beginning. The last third was more spice with strong notes of cedar and wood. This cigar ended up packing a decent little punch after starting off a bit mild.
This was a very good cigar worthy of being an Anniversary edition smoke. Construction was excellent with a perfect draw and a razor sharp burn. It had decent complexity with refined, identifiable flavors. It starts off a bit mild but picks up nicely turning into a solid medium bodied smoke with a good buzz factor without being overly powerful robust. This cigar is a must try for any fan of Nicaraguan tobacco.
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My Review of the Carlos Torano Noventa Santiago
The draw is slightly firm and as I smoked this I began to get some tar build up halfway down. No big deal, as I punched this so I just clipped it and there were no more problems. The cigar burned relatively straight, but i did need to touch it up towards the end.
This is a full-bodied cigar with less straightforward spice and more of a pepper that takes a back seat to a lot of cedar. Because of the strong wood flavors, it was hard to tell if there was anything else. i would actually liked to have aged this more i think to see what else developed as the woodiness may have mellowed more.
Rating: 86 (B)
Colby
I smoked one of these recently and found a lasting taste of tea and honey. It tasted similar to what I hear highly aged cigars taste like.