goathahalol purchased this cigar on 2009-01-01.
It has None of additional aging.
Initial light gave a slightly sweet and creamy flavor with just the tiniest hint of pepper in the back of the throat. Each subsequent draw the sweetness is fading and being replace by a more prominent tobbaco / pepper spice. Being a Lancero, this cigar was very easy to light, and the draw has just the right amount of resistance for me. Aroma is pleasant.
About a half inch in now and the pepper has settled slightly. Still have the tobacco tingle on the tongue and throat. Flavors are primarily pepper and a kind of a woody tobacco so far not very complex. Sweetness is completely gone. Burn seems nice so far although slightly lopsided. Really have to pace myself, this is my first ever Lancero and it is definitely heating up rather quickly. At the end of each minute between puffs there is still quite a bit of natural tobacco flavor lingering on my palette and in my sinuses mostly tobacco flavors. Lost the ash at a little less than 1" which surprised me, but I'm not sure if that is typical of Lanceros. Not much new to report in terms of flavor. See ya in the second third.
Alright, well this is one long ass smoke for me and there have been a few developments so I figure I'll start the 2nd third about 1/16th of an inch too soon. The dominant pepper spice from the Initial light and first third is now no more than a faint afterthought, but it is still there nonetheless and I must say that I'm enjoying the fact that it's just hanging around. This makes for a very smooth smoke, pretty easy on the throat and palette. Also a flavor that I akin to the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland has appeared for one draw and then disappeared again...and it is that of black licorice....call me crazy but I've tasted this a handful of times on different smokes and it's always there for one draw and then it disappears as quickly as it appears. Other than that the flavors are much of the same, with what I can only describe as a faint coffee aftertaste that has crept up on me but I may be grasping for a little more complexity than this smoke is offering at the moment.
Strength at this point I would give a 3 out of 5 which is to say medium to medium full. As far as the burn goes, the Southeast Texas Humidity monster has reared his head once again and is causing problems with the wrapper not staying lit, so I'm touching it up a bit as I move along.
Moving right along into the final third, not a whole lot of excitement going on, the spice has picked back up very slightly but just enough to notice it again and the strength is building as I would expect from a small ring gauge like this. Flavors are still predominantly tobacco and wood, and very smooth with just enough kick to keep it from being boring. This review is a bit wordy so I'll probably just leave it with what I have written so far unless something unexpected worth mentioning happens. Overall a nice smoke that has made for a worthy departure from my current maduro addiction.