Not really a FAN of these...I like them when they are what people say they are, but more often than not, they are NOT what people say they are, namely sweet, spicy and full of caramel notes. Now give me a Montecarlo, and I will agree with you. But the PC, ehh, just another case of Cuba finding out through the online community that people are going apey over the a smoke, and they start cranking them out by the shipload, but instead of being choice, they are basically the same as a Montecristo No.4 is now, the same shape as the legend, the same band as the legend, but just also-ran tobacco. Anyone who tells you that the PLPC today is the same cigar it was 12 years ago is full of 5hit. ESPECIALLY anyone from Habanos S.A., or their agent.
I picture a guy rummaging through the guts of the goose that laid the golden eggs, trying to find the gold and discovering that the goose has to still be ALIVE to pop out the eggs on a regular basis.
This is what happens time and again down south. They see through sales or online forums that one cigar or another is really popular, and within two years, the legend is dead.
Where was I ? AH yes, the smoking of the PLPC. It was good. I didn't taste any sweetness or caramel, I tasted run of the mill havana flavor. It was quite smooth and tamed, with a solid overall flavor of tobacco and herbs....mild and almost appealing, but solid nonetheless. It burned so well I had to give it some credit just for being perfect in construction. And it wasn't filled with string, hair and dust, it was a good smoke. I just get tickled when I think of the modern habanos smoker who is smoking one of his 50 every 4 months, waiting for the magic flavors to come to the fore. It never does, but he thinks that maybe he just got a bad cabinet, and orders another one, never realizing that he got flim-flammed by the best. I know smokers that I respect, that still think they can trust the PLPC, they just have to give em enough time. News flash for my good friends, the days of the 10 year old havana that still has years of development left are OVER. Have been since the early 21st century. You aren't going to end up with a good cabinet of PLPCs in 3 years, 4 years or 6 years or 10 years....You are only going to get the modern equivalent; one or two outstanding cigars in 25, 10 good smokes and 10-12 horrible sticks that make you think, "what the hell was THAT?" or "one day, these bad cigars are going to come around." You are following a centuries old model of habanos, perpetuated by people like Min Ron Nee and others, that there is a prime time to smoke these cigars, you just need to wait and be there when it happens with a full box of cigars, relax and enjoy them at their prime. That is over. Now you have between year 2 and year 5, and then your cigars are going to quickly become expensive curly heads. They pulled a fast one on you and didn't tell anyone. The Chinese figured it out ten years ago. People scoffed at them back then. Problem is, they were right. Welcome to the future suckers.
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