Toro, 6" x 50 ring gauge / approx. $6.00Chaveta cigars are a fairly new exclusive cigar to Tower Cigars in Sacramento, CA. Mark Just was kind enough to send me a sampler of several different sizes of this cigar. I decided to smoke the toro for review. I did smoke the other sizes before smoking this one for review. This cigar is comprised of Nicaraguan and Dominican fillers, with a Dominican binder all wrapped in a Brazilian Bahia Maduro wrapper. It comes in 6 different sizes: a 6.5"x52 torpedo, a 5"x52 robusto, a 6"x60 Double Magnum 60, a 5 5/8"x46 corona gorda, a 7"x48 Churchill and the subject of this review a 6"x50 toro.
The first thing you notice about this cigar once you pull it out of the cellophane is the extremely oily, dark chocolate brown wrapper. If you rub your fingers together after touching it you can still feel the oils on your fingers. There are some medium veins and some tooth to the wrapper. I think that the band looks very good on this cigar. The gold border helps it stand out from the wrapper leaf. The construction on this cigar is fairly firm when given a squeeze and I wasn't able to detect any soft spots. Putting my nose to the wrapper I detected the aroma of barnyard with the same thing coming from the foot. After clipping the cigar and taking a cold draw on it I get tastes of cocoa powder with a good draw.
As soon as I lit the cigar up I was rewarded with a fairly intense taste of chocolate on the tongue with a good amount of spice on the retrohale. After taking a couple more puffs on it I was able to detect leather, earth with a slight amount of anise. The draw was pretty much perfect and it produced a large volume of smoke, even when I wasn't puffing on it. The ash was a battleship grey in color with a stacked looked to it on the outside, while on the inside it was bright white. The ash held on for about an inch before needing to be tapped off. As I came to the end of the first third the spice had toned down a bit.
The second third started where the first third left off. The flavors were of chocolate, earth, leather, and anise with a slight sweetness on the finish. The spice had almost gone away but you could still get some of it in the background. The draw continued to be great, but the burn started to get a little uneven as I finished up the second third.
The final third was more of the same in the taste department, chocolate, leather, earth and anise. That doesn't mean that I wasn't enjoying it, I definitely was! The burn did even itself out with only about an inch left. The spice also came back at the end of the cigar.
I'd like to thank Mark again for giving me the samples to try for this review. Overall this was a very enjoyable cigar. I can recommend it to most any smoker out there. It has enough body and strength for those who prefer stronger cigars, and shouldn't be too strong for the lighter bodied smoker out there. I will definitely be picking more of these up once I can get some room in my humidors.
Body: 7/10
Strength: 6/10
Complexity: 6/10
AFP Scale
Prelight: 2/2
Construction: 2/2
Flavor: 4.5/5
Value: 1/1
Total: 9.5/10
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