6" x 52 ring gauge, approx. $8.50Another day, another offering from LFD's Ligero lineup--good thing I really like these! This time around I smoked the Ligero Torpedo, a slightly small ring gauge version of the L-500, with a torpedo head. This is a natural-wrapped version featuring Dominican filler and binder along with an Ecuadorian wrapper.
While in theory this should be the same color as the L-500 Natural I had a week or so ago (review to appear soon), in reality it is a little darker--more of a dark tan. The wrapper is quite oily for a natural and there are a few anomalies that are fairly frequent in this line--discoloration and a couple larger-than-normal veins. The aroma from the wrapper is barnyard and sweet tobacco; from the foot there is more cocoa, coffee, and a little wet earth. Prelight, the draw is great and the flavores are coffee and cream with just a little spicy tingle on the lips. Because I've smoked several siilar sticks in the past week, I decided to pair this stogie with some Wild Turkey Rye whiskey and add in my evaluation of their pairing.
At the beginning, first impressions are of wood and a bit of coffee with cream. The first sip of rye caused a flood of flavors that I had trouble sorting out: some pepper, maybe a little honey, more wood. In the first third, this cigar exhibited many classic traits of a mild cigar--creamy, woody, lightly grassy at times--without actually being mild. If anything it was just slightly over the line into being a medium-bodied smoke. It was very smooth, though, and would make as good a morning cigar as anything else in the LFD product line with the word "Ligero" in the name.
During the second third, the Torpedo Ligero got more mellow--or maybe it was just me, unwinding after an 11 hour work day. At any rate, this one turned into a welcome surprise--an LFD that was flavorful, yet not liable to smack me around the face and ears as I smoked it--just what the doctor ordered! The construction was top-notch, too; I had no burn or draw issues up to this point. The whiskey was very good, but less of a brilliant match-up for this cigar. It really needed a more aggressive stogie to play at its best. I probably would have been better served with the Eagle Rare Single Barrel bourbon, an uncommonly light bourbon I recently purchased (again, review to follow at some point...).
The last third brought some sweetness to the flavor party. Overall, this is a very nice medium-bodied stick with plenty of cedar and creamy coffee flavors. It would be a great morning smoke and I intend to pick some up for that purpose. There was just a little nicotine kick in the end, but nothing like you would get in some of LFD's heartier smokes.
Body: 6/10
Strength: 6/10
Complexity: 7/10
AFP Scale:
Prelight: 2/2
Construction: 2/2
Flavor: 4/5
Value: 1/1
Total: 9/10
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