Reviews
Date Added: Friday 22 November, 2013
This is an excellent Christmas present for the serious cigar smoker very good build quality and a hard wearing chrome finish telescopic portable cigar ashtray and cigar rest, forget dirty ashtrays when sitting outside pubs or restaurants this item is light and very functional and goes well with the Xikar chrome lighter in my review below
Date Added: Thursday 07 November, 2013
Just tried the Partagas brand (in this size) for the first time. Wow! What a cigar. Lots of creamy smoke and delicious, medium, sweet tobacco flavours, which lasted over an hour. Smooth smoke throughout. Had to relight twice but this was easily done and did not detract from what was a fantastic smoking experience.
Date Added: Sunday 20 October, 2013
This is an excellent Christmas present for the serious cigar smoker very good build quality and a hard wearing chrome finish telescopic portable cigar ashtray and cigar rest, forget dirty ashtrays when sitting outside pubs or restaurants this item is light and very functional and goes well with the Xikar chrome lighter in my review below
Date Added: Wednesday 16 October, 2013
Very disappointed with this cutter! I think maybe mine must be a faulty one as so many people swear by it. This cutter pinches the cigar far to much! So far three of my good aged cigars have poorly cut by this - each suffering a tear to the wrapper. There will not be a forth! I've gone back to using my trusty steel two blade cutter I got in Cuba instead, as this performs a perfect crisp cut. Wish I'd spent the £32 this palio cutter cost me on cigars instead!!!!
Date Added: Wednesday 02 October, 2013
I am really sad to say me and this particular vitola haven't really had a great relationship. After giving it 3 attempts I had to declare this one a 'one-to-forget' cigar. I have a lot of respect for Partagas and have given a few other vitolas the time of day to re-instate a love for one of the most recognisable brands. (SerieD5 Limited Ed & Serie PNo.2 have both been FANTASTIC!).
I'd definitely need some convincing about these. The tastes were too earthy, too harsh and a bit too bitter for me, in all 3 sticks. I've seen really great reviews of these cigars. This goes to show the true beauty of the cigar community, I love how everyones pallet takes to different notes and flavours and truly respect this highly popular cigar.
Thanks for reading,
Alex
Instagram: @HabanosAl
Date Added: Wednesday 02 October, 2013
I'm a relative novice smoker , I've smoked for a while but am just now at the stage where I'm buying and storing cigars as well as smoking them as opposed to just "buy-smoke-repeat". What to say about the Punch Coronations? Visually this isn't an enormous cigar but it's certainly perfectly formed. While not having experienced a full range of different draws yet, I found this a very easy cigar to smoke. On lighting, the thick, white smoke billowed and almost filled the room on the first draw, the burn was even from end to end and the cigar didn't need relighting or any mid-smoke maintenance. The flavour started off quite mild, with almost a taste of how leather smells (if that makes sense), earthy and satisfying without being overpowering. Within about the first 1/3 of the cigar the flavour developed and I could pick up coffee notes with a not-too-spicy element which caught my palette with a bit of the sensation you'd experience after eating a lot of chocolate, dry yet somehow moist at the same time, but again - not unpleasant. All in all, I think this is a superb cigar for the money
