Corona Cigar Company Gold Series Connecticut Churchill Cigar Review

This 7x50 light tan stick offers a buttery soft, oil connecticut wrapper with tiny veins and invisible seams, with a faint aroma of sweet hay. First light reveals a very tight draw, minimal smoke production with a light, mild tobacco and nutty flavor and a short clean finish. The first third transitions to a light leather, slight grass and hint of caramel, all very smoothly blended and mild, with thick smoke, but not much of it, keeping the tight draw. At the half way point 55 min in, flavors had changed to a primary core of caramel, though still mild and slight - with a black pepper flavor and tiny bit of zing that carried on to the finish, which had grown in length. 60 min in the draw suddenly opened up a notch, greatly improving smoke production, pushing the body to a solid medium with richer flavors. The last third showed completely different flavors with the core going to a cream and nut, with a touch of licorice and a finish of nuts and pepper, still medium bodied. Burn was very good all the way down holding 1" of ash at a time. Total burn time was 1:50.