This weekend I decided to give the beautiful Miraflor cigar a smoke. After a couple minutes searching the internet, I was able to learn almost nothing about this brand or any of its products. Searching online, you can find boxes of these for over 50% off so if you like this product, you might be in luck.
I was very excited to smoke this cigar. The wrapper was beautiful. It was not the prettiest wrapper. There were some veins in it and it was pretty rough in some places, but I have a soft spot for the “raw” looking wrappers.
The initial light was easy. I was able to achieve a nice even burn on the cigar with little effort (the same cannot be said for my friend smoking his Macanudo), so I will give it some points there. After several minutes, the cigar still had a perfect burn going, but that did not last long. After the first five minutes or so, the cigar started canoeing. The wind was not overly strong and I make sure to rotate my cigar as I smoke. I was forced to touch it up with my matches several times through out my smoke. That definitely took a lot of the enjoyment out of it for me.
The cigar itself seemed to be a mild-medium smoke. As I’ve said, I’m a novice cigar smoker, but I can usually distinguish several different tastes throughout the course of the smoke, but this particular one seemed very one dimensional. The first third was more on the mild side with hints of tobacco and coffee. By the second third, it was as if I was smoking coffee. The final third mellowed out quite a bit and started to smoke hot for me. The cigar was creamy throughout, especially in the nose, but for the time it took me to smoke (about an hour and a half), I grew bored with it. As I said in my last post, I like to smoke down to the nub when I can, but I saw no reason to continue smoking this one.
Overall, I found the smoke to be mediocre. The first third and even the start of the second third would have been nice if there had been more dimensions to the cigar as a whole. I only smoked one of these cigars so the canoeing that plagued my cigar may have been just unlucky, but I did not see enough in this cigar in general to try another one. I would give this cigar a 3 out of 5.
As usual, these are only my opinions and anyone is more than welcome to comment and give their input on the smoke.
Cigar Noob 