Tatuaje Limited Series Avion 12 (Prerelease)

[LostAbbott]

Let me just start by saying that this is a stunning stick, it looks like a box pressed WOAM and for me that is just about the perfect cigar. The wrapper is dark and even (connie broadleaf?, no Ecuadorian Habano), very nice wrap at both the foot and head and just really stunning. At 5 5/8 inches long with a 48 – 52 rg it is a really nice size fits easy in the mouth and hand.



I received this stick on a bomb from a BOTL on another forum, it was his only stick and he received it is a sampler from Holt’s. Really great gesture, thanks brother!

I decided to get the dog out for a walk with this stick as I feel I can get some really good focus on the stick this way. The dog cruises off leash and at 6 years old (with lots of training) pretty much walks himself.

The cut is clean and easy, clean smooth dark chocolate draw, going to light it my damn lighter runs out of fuel and I have to head half a block back to the house and grab another. So I am not sure if it was my lighter issues or not but this stick was not easy to get going; only once past the foot did I get the stick really lit. Strangely the wrapper is really sticky on my mouth almost like there is a lot of oil on the leaf or something…



Flavor starts out with bitter dark chocolate with a little dull leather and then every other pull or so kicks in with some heavy pepper and leather. Once things settle down into the first third I find bitter orange to take over and kick out the other flavors all together, very damn close to a Party Series D. #4 sans the depth.

Unfortunately this is where this start to go wrong, after the first third the stick starts to kick out a lot of tar, so much so that I wiped the stick three times on plant leaves I was passing then it nearly blocked the draw completely so I had to cut the head a little more, I only got two good pulls out of the stick before it started to tar again, wipe, cut, tar. I ended up cutting twice and wiping four times. It was the most tar I have ever seen and every time it just killed any flavor, at about the halfway point this cigar was done but I kept going as long as I could even with the nasty tar flavor, I kept hoping to fix it.



I think this cigar suffers both from being young and possibly a pre-release. I was really disappointed, it showed a lot of potential, but was completely killed by the problems. As I only had one I cannot claim this is not a fluke, but I am starting to worry if Tat is not running into some over production problems on not enough leaf to continually push out new limited smokes (similar problem Viaje had).

I think this could turn out to be a great cigar after six months settling down in the humi, but I for one will not be going out of my way to grab more.


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