Don Lucas "20th Anniversary" Belicoso

Cigare dominicain (Punta Cana)

Longueur : 15,2 cm
Diamètre : 2,1 cm

Cape, sous-cape et tripe : République dominicaine

Prix : ? (cadeau de mon frère pour mes nos 39 ans)

La cape est très belle, grasse, bien tendue.

Le remplissage est plus souple au pied que sur le reste du cigare.

A cru, de bonnes mais timides odeurs qui donnent envie d'y goûter ! 

Je le guillotine et l'allume à l'allumette.

Le démarrage se déroule tout en douceur, sur des arômes de café au lait.

Je décèle également un peu de fruits secs (noisette ?).

Première extinction...et par conséquent premier rallumage.

Le Belicoso développe un beau volume de fumée et la combustion est très lente.

Malheureusement, à ce stade, les arômes ont quasiment disparus... Toutefois, un (trop) léger goût de cacao reviendra à la fin du premier tiers.

L'amertume, jusqu'ici absente, pointe le bout de son nez...et persistera malgré deux dégazages...

Je dois constamment faire chuter la cendre pour améliorer le tirage qui décline au fur-et-à mesure de la dégustation. Si je laisse plus d'un demi-centimètre de cendre le tirage est très dur. 

En conclusion, j'ai trouvé ce cigare trop fade, puis trop amer, au tirage très difficile...

Cote : ?  (3-9-5-1-?)

DON LUCAS 20th ANNIVERSARY

The Don Lucas 20th Anniversary is the smoke to show you how they progressed throughout the years. They started with their Classic blend and twenty years later, the Classic Series is the cigar that delights our customers with its complexity.

Secondly, they created the H.S. blend several years ago for some private and exclusive customers that had requested something a few steps up the Classic Series. The H.S. Series came to life and those that were lucky enough to receive it were just amazed!

After the H.S. Series release, Don Lucas had the idea to make a truly fuller bodied Dominican cigar. They came out with two variations of the A.L. Series as they began to cater to a different market that demanded fuller bodied cigars.

While twenty years is not a long time in the grand scheme of things, Don Lucas chose to mark that milestone with an Anniversary cigar. Something that takes you through the mildness of their Classic blend, makes you feel the smoothness of their H.S. Series and gives you the intensity of their two variations of their A.L. Series. A cigar that shows that Don Lucas has grown and evolved enough to keep you satisfied from the first time you were amazed with a cigar that was unknown to you. A cigar that may have changed the way you feel about cigars when you smoked a small batch production Don Lucas.

The 20th Anniversary is a limited edition cigar that will annually change to keep you walking along with Don Lucas’ evolution every year. This is a production to gives you their best effort in growing and selecting tobaccos each year. This is a production that  reminds you that cigar smoking is a hobby not a habit…  (source: http://www.chesapeakecigar.com/)

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