Having never smoked a Macanudo in my life, I sat down at the shop and dedicated a day to Macanudo a while ago when we got these in. Over the course of 7 hours and two meals, I smoked 4 different ones from the shelf (Cafe, Robust, Maduro, and one other I forgot) and then sat and smoked the 1968 last at the end of the day. Mind you, 5 cigars a day is a slighly lighter than normal day, but I didn't want to fry my taste buds and miss anything important.
Honestly, the first four were fairly terrible. They had flavor, and a surprising amount more than I expected based on what I've heard and read here before. However it was not a particularly pleasing flavor, and it left quite a rank taste in my mouth that I had to eat pretzels and drink coffee to cleanse out. Overall, the Cafe had, IMO, the most flavor.
As far as the 1968 goes, I think it had considerably more flavor, and a very decent one compared to the others. I think it was a slight toffee flavor with some chocolate notes that crept in and out, but it was hard to pin down anything. It didn't change, but at the halfway point the cigar just outright lost all flavor and tasted like smoke. I thought it was a bad one, so I opened another box of a different size and got the same result.
So yeah, I give an A+ for the effort and change, but a D overall for the results.
Honestly, the first four were fairly terrible. They had flavor, and a surprising amount more than I expected based on what I've heard and read here before. However it was not a particularly pleasing flavor, and it left quite a rank taste in my mouth that I had to eat pretzels and drink coffee to cleanse out. Overall, the Cafe had, IMO, the most flavor.
As far as the 1968 goes, I think it had considerably more flavor, and a very decent one compared to the others. I think it was a slight toffee flavor with some chocolate notes that crept in and out, but it was hard to pin down anything. It didn't change, but at the halfway point the cigar just outright lost all flavor and tasted like smoke. I thought it was a bad one, so I opened another box of a different size and got the same result.
So yeah, I give an A+ for the effort and change, but a D overall for the results.