Partagas Spanish Rosado Mitico

[Whee]

Been slacking off on writing reviews, so thought I would do one on a tasty looking little number I've been wanting to try.

Let's meet the guest of honor:

Partagas Spanish Rosado
Mitico 7x49
Wrapper: Honduran
Filler: Dominican


Deceptively beautiful.


Cigar has a nice light brown color. Has a couple of large veins running in the top 1/3. The stick is firm, no give, and the wrapper is rough to the touch.

Pre light aroma is a cedary, grassy aroma. Clipped great. The prelight draw is very tight, this could be trouble. The taste is the above mentioned cedary grass with a little tea flavor.

Lit up easily, but the draw is really firm. The flavor is a little citrusy and the burn is ragged through the first few minutes. Not much smoke comes off this stick. Ash is light gray and firm.

After about 10 minutes, the burn is really "wavy". The draw is still tight, I am going to try to open it up a bit with a draw tool. Flavor is as above, but very light.

Success the draw tool worked!


As we hit the 30 minute mark, the draw has really opened up. I really wish there was more smoke of this beauty. Not much at rest or on the pre draw. The burn has evened out on an angle.

Flavor is still mild, but the citrusy taste is still there. Cinnamon has made an appearance, but it is hard to pull out the underlying flavors. Mainly getting leathery tobacco. Just had an almost "Candy" like draw. very sweet! Unfortunately, it disappeared as fast as it appeared.

The ash was holding solid at an inch until it dropped on it's own in my lap.

Here we are at 50...


Draw is almost perfect now and the smokiness has picked up! Sweetness is all gone and just a light leathery tobacco flavor now.

Touched up at 75 minutes as the burn went ragged again. Flavor has not changed. getting a little nic buzz. I think this may be from smoking too fast early on, trying to work through the tight draw. It has smoked much faster than I thought a cigar this size would.

Harshness has started to creep in. I let it die at about 83 minutes.


Very disappointing cigar from a flavor standpoint. The sweetness and citrus was great, it just didn't last long enough or really come to the forefront. I really wanted to like this cigar. It looks fantastic and I am a fan of the Partagas Naturals and Black.

Still have 9 in the box and I will give this one another shot.

Final tally...

Overall Appearance and Presentation 18/20
Lighting and Burning 11/15
Construction Properties 25/30
Taste Properties 24/35

Overall 78