4 years on....smoking the 09 H. Upmann Coronas major Tubos

If you want to bring a smile to my face, mention the H. Upmann Coronas Major Tubos.  This is one of the most unknown masterpieces of all the Habanos Catalogue.  Just a work of art and flavor.  Great looking even for a tubed cigar, these cigars always seem to draw perfectly and as they age gracefully in the tube, offer a different but equally pleasing smoking experience as the years go by....

And poor ole Hello Kitty Lighter, she is taking a bunch of em for the team isn't she.  She just seems to always be in a bad spot when it comes picture taking time.  As you can see, the wrapper is refined and elegant...slip the band off and you might be convinced it were a Cohiba.  And the taste would not disappoint you, either.  What a generous serving of sweet tobacco, cocoa and herbally leather.  Puff after puff, it continued to satisfy, as I smoked a rack of ribs outside, reveling in the latest summer cool front to pass through Memphis.  The weather hasn't done that since the first year I arrivedin town ten years ago.  TWO summers straight of moderate, downright porch-swingin' summer weather.  I know someone is paying the price somewhere, but at least it ain't ME.

As the cigar progressed, the rewards did not diminish or turn harsh.  i enjoyed extreme sweet leather flavor throughout, nuanced with pepper and some delicious cocoa-ey flavor that was not quite chocolate, but almost a chocolate stout flavor....not tar, but that kind of near-chocolate flavor.

I smoked this one only to about halfway, was bummed about 
wasting half of it before I ruined it by over-smoking it.  I think
there might not be a better sub-$4.00 cigar on earth.  BUY, BUY,
BUY!

89 delicious points