Room 101 Serie SA Papi Chulo

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Room 101 Serie SA Papi Chulo
Country: Honduras
Size: Papi Chulo (a petit corona, 4x42)
Wrapper: San Andres (Mexico)
Made by Camacho
Price: $5
Resting 6 months with 65% Boveda

Pre-light and cold draw were lighter than expected - just mild tobacco flavor and some cocoa. Very easy, loose draw, which I wasn't crazy about. The wrapper's kind of funky looking. Rustic, as they say, with some little cracks.





1st 3rd:
Cocoa is up front, with some pepper. There's initial bitterness but it smooths out.
Bread. I never got that when people say their cigars taste like bread, but I tasted it here.
Lots of smoke for such a little guy, medium strength
Very woody - not cedar, but oak maybe. Or baobob or monkey puzzle tree or Syrian spruce.
The damn thing went out.


2nd 3rd:
Very woody, like burning logs, and strangely enough, tobacco flavor.
Wavy burn. Answered the door for a UPS package and in just that short time it went out again.
Chocolate, more pepper, a nice richness, raisins.
There's some throat-constricting peppery bitterness for a while, then it smooths out again.
Then it goes kind of weird: petroleum, charred hogs knuckles.
Then it's okay again: wood, chocolate. Chocolate burning on a log.
Random floral, perfume flavor for a minute, which disappears like a ghostly wisp of fog.



3rd 3rd:
Went out again!
Wood. Leather. maybe that leather has been there all along, come to think of it.
Burning leather. Strength closer to full. Bitter again.... went out again....
So fairly consistent throughout.....

This was my first Room 101, and first San Andreas wrapper, and though I enjoyed it part of the time I found it kind of disappointing - especially the burn issues. Not sure I'd be eager to try this one again - there are too many cigars I enjoy a lot more, and life's too short. Maybe the larger vitolas are better, but for a small smoke I'd take a Short Story over this any day. I have an HN serie in the humi, and hopefully I'll like that one better.