Name: Macanudo Inspirado Black Toro

Country: Dominican Republic

Shape: Parejo

Size: (5.5 inches x 54)

Strength: Full

A good-looking cigar that is peppery, sweet, and full-bodied.

Compared to most cigars out there today, the Macanudo Inspirado Black has certain characteristics and nuances that are quite uncommon. Its complexity makes you feel like you’re smoking an abstract work of art. Imagine smoking a Pollock or Kandinsky painting. That’s how it felt like. It wasn’t an average experience.

Name: Paradiso Coloso

Country: Nicaragua

Shape: Parejo

Size: (6 3/4 inches x 62)

Strength: Medium to Full

The Paradiso Coloso is a majestic cigar. It’s big, fat, and powerful and allows you to get lost in its harmonious complexity. Notes of dark roast coffee, white pepper, earth, and black beans are accompanied by gentler notes of sweet bell pepper and chocolate.

It’s a great cigar to smoke with friends who are also aficionados or dilettantes.

Name: Palmar Arriba Habano Robusto

Country: Dominican Republic

Shape: Parejo

Strength: Medium

An affordable cigar that is also satisfactory.

The Palmar Arriba Habano Robusto is a medium-bodied cigar that exceeded my expectations. Lacking complexity, its unassuming simplicity is what made it good. It was the right cigar at the right time.

I smoked it while starting my charcoal grill. I had a couple of beers with it, and it was all good.