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Old 03-08-2018, 02:55 AM   #1
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Default Flor de Filipinas Corona

Flor de Filipinas is a hand made longfiller from, surprise surprise, the Philippines. Tabaqueria de Filipinas makes an array of different cigars including these Flor de Filipinas since 1993 when Gabriel Ripoll started the factory after working in tobacco for decades.

The Flor de Filipinas is blended with Cuban seed filler and binder, grown on the Phillipines and a wrapper from the Indonesian island Java where a lot of tobacco is grown but most of that tobacco is used for dry cured short filler cigars like Meharis, Olifant, Oud Kampen, Hajenius, Cortes and many more brands that are popular in Western Europe.

The wrapper is medium dark brown, a little darker than milk chocolate, wrinkly and has a sandpaper feel to it. The construction feels good but the cap is poorly handled. The ring is simple, red with a greenish logo and details and in small white letters the name of the cigar. There is a mild woody and barnyard aroma to the cigar. All by all, I wouldn’t pick this cigar up at a shop because of the looks and the mild aroma.

I used a double guillotine to cut the cigar. The cold draw is a bit tight. I taste a weird mild musty yet warm, almost cinnamon like flavor, mild and muted. The flavors change to a pasty mild herbal flavor. After that it’s a musty cinnamon again.

The draw is okay, nothing more than that and the gray ash breaks quickly. The gray smoke is thin and low in volume. The burn is good. There isn’t much of an evolution. This is a mild to medium bodied and flavored cigar. The smoke time is an hour and fifteen minutes.

Would I buy this cigar again? No

Score: 77

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