Corona, 5.5" x 44 ring gauge
The 6th Generation by A. Turrent celebrates the many generations of cigar-makers in the Turrent family since Alberto came to Mexico in 1880. He planted Cuban-seed tobacco in the San Andres Valley's volcanic soil and the family has continued making cigars since; today they are sold and marketed through Altadis. This is a Mexican puro, actually a San Andres puro to be precise, with a maduro binder and a sun-grown, corojo wrapper.
I picked up this cigar at the Big Smoke last November, so I have no idea of price point--this size is not even listed on the Altadis website. The wrapper is a nice even shade of medium-brown with a few veins causing it to be rather lumpy in places. The aroma from the body is a nice tobacco/humidor smell and from the foot there is just a hint of barnyard, but nothing strong.
I did not get much from the prelight draw, maybe a little hay and leather along with something slightly astrigent. After lighting, the flavors of hay and leather remained along with what I could only think of as ammonia. Definitely not a great flavor to look for in a cigar, but it was fairly faint and I wanted to see if it would fade. The body was mild-to-medium to begin and the draw was great although the burn line went awry less than a quarter inch in.
By the beginning of the second third, the ammonia essence did fade and a pleasant spice cam through--more of a chili pepper than black pepper. This helped the cigar to immediately become more interesting. The burn line also started to get more even. The other construction issue of note was the tendency of the wrapper to "banana peel" as it burned and for ash to flake off--very messy and unattractive.
The last third was much the same--leathery and spicy and a little hay that is more characteristic of many mild smokes. The 6th Generation was not a bad cigar but it did not blow my socks off, either. It was smokeable without being memorable.
Body: 4/10
Strength: 4/10
Complexity: 5/10
AFP Scale:
Prelight: 2/2
Construction: 1/2
Flavor: 3/5
Value: .5/1
Total: 6.5/10
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