Cigar Reviews
Tatuaje 7th Corojo
We don’t get rain often enough here in El Paso. Mix that with a drop in temperature and the result is my absolute favorite weather. To celebrate this rarity I am heading out back to enjoy a Tatuaje 7th Corojo.
The Good Stuff:
The Tatuaje 7th Corojo is one of this year’s new releases by the company. Adding itself to the Seleccion de Cazadores line, or the brown label line, the blend features the same makeup as the rest of the line with the exception of the new Corojo wrapper. Blended at the My Father factory in Nicaragua the 7th Corojo features a Corojo wrapper grown in Nicaragua at the My father farms, over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers. The blend is offered in a single 5 5/8 x 46 format, which comes packaged as boxes of 21 and runs $9.50 per cigar.
- Size: 5 5/8 x 46
- Wrapper: Nicaraguan Corojo
- Binder: Nicaraguan
- Filler: Nicaraguan
- Body: Medium/Full
- Strength: Medium
- Price: $9.50
Prelight:
The Tatuaje 7th Corojo carries a very rustic, inconsistent wrapper scattered with areas of dark brown, light brown, and orange. The wrapper’s texture is a bit on the thin side as it carried a decent amount of toothy grit and a whole mess of oils coating it. The cigar feels pretty well packed with the exception of some softness around the foot area. There wrapper is laid over itself with care as it showcases some natural webbing in the wrapper’s leaf as well as some lighter veins running through the cigar’s body up to it’s round, double-wrapped cap. The cigar is then polished off with the standard brown band as the rest of the Seleccion De Cazadores line as well as an added maroon and gold band with “Corojo” embossed in the front.
The wrapper on the Tatuaje 7th Corojo gives off sweet spice and musk while the foot of the cigar is mostly natural tobacco and earthiness. The cap clipped off the Tatuaje 7th Corojo with ease. The cold draw produces notes of sweet spice, musk, and cedar.
First Third:
The Tatuaje 7th Corojo starts out with a very subtle, very light black pepper blast that only lasted the first puff or two before completely dropping out allowing the cigar to release some great musky, earthiness over some natural tobacco, dark chocolate, cedar and pecan flavors. The draw is fantastic. Each puff kicks out huge clouds of thick, white smoke which really sticks around for a long time before dissipating. The cigar also releases a ton of stationary smoke while it rests in my ashtray. The burn line is dead even and razor thin leaving behind a trail of tightly compacted white ash which held on for about an inch before giving way.
Second Third:
As I venture into the second third of the Tatuaje 7th Corojo the cigar really starts to shine. The musk and sweet spice melt together to give off notes of roasted caramel, dark chocolate and pecan with some sweet nutmeg and natural tobacco with a leathery finish. The retrohale brings out a lot of the sweetness and I do it quite often. I close out the second third with nothing in terms of nicotine kick.
Finish:
The final third of the Tatuaje 7th Corojo finished very similar to the second third. The musk and sweet spice lead the charged backed by the roasted caramel, dark chocolate and pecan. There was a little bit of a piney wood that poked in every now and then as well. It took me and hour and a half to smoke this cigar down to the nub. I experience no harshness, no sap, nor any extended heat. I didn’t have to touch up or relight the cigar at any point as it burned flawlessly from start to finish.
Overview:
I am a huge fan of both the Seleccion de Cazadores and Corojo so I was naturally pretty damn excited about this blend and it delivered. The profile isn’t as -rounded as some of the other offerings, but the Corojo made for a more complex, more thoughtful experience that I really enjoyed. I could easily find myself grabbing this version over some of the others in the brown line quite often. This is easily one of the better cigar I have had this year. This is box-worthy, and I plan on grabbing quite a few of these while I still can.
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