Today, I smoked the Partagas black, and here’s the report. The description says chocolate and espresso of which I never found. There was a dark spicy sweetness from the wrapper, some leather, plain black coffee and nuttiness with a peppery retro hale. Crooked burn line. Coming into second base, the leather did become stronger, and the sweetness had stepped up one notch, but not much else to report. It smoked down a little fast. Not a lot of flavors in this cigar. It does give off a good amount of thick chewy smoke, with a medium plus strength. Very firm feel. Sorta burns the sinuses on the retro a bit. Overall it’s not a bad cigar, just not a really good one, I don’t think you’re going to get a $10.15 experience from it. There’s too many better blends in the $7 range for me to choose this over them. The one thing I did enjoy was the nicotine strength the final third brought in.
