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40 days of rest give or take. Coffee, wood, leather, chocolate, kind of muted by pepper spice.

Two months of rest have paid off. A Woody, nutty, tobacco centric treat.

Aladino Maduro Box Press Probably my least favorite in the line. Not a bad cigar, I'm just not much of San Andres fan anymore. It has gotten a little too common and the the quality doesn't seem to be the same as a decade ago.

Aladino Natural Corona Oak, red pepper, cream, and vanilla with a tart highlight.

I've smoked a lot of $15 and $20 dollar sticks that really didn't feel like they were worth the price. Davidoff is a prime example. Fresh, six months, and even a year of age they all are underwhelming to me. I'll take a $5.70 Aladino Vintage Selection over a lot of the expensive cigars people...

Diesel Corona Oily leather, wood, spice, and coffee beans. Doesn't taste like a super premium smoke, but something about it has a special place in my heart.

I was interested in the CLE Signature but Neptune has them listed at about $18. I'm not that interested. Rarely does a cigar over $12 actually turn out to be worth the premium price.

Peppers, coffee, fruity sweetness, but obviously young tobacco.

Time to see what a couple of months worth of rest can do.

Lots of leather, hay, and cedar with a nice nutmeg component through the first half.

Aladino Cameroon Lonsdale Half Wheel said the cold draw had "something that reminds me of an empty tobacco barn." I didn't try a cold draw, but the first few puffs definitely reminded me of Old tobacco barns after the curing season was done. It is easy to see how this could be the best cigar...

Cedar, hay, leather, earth, creamy espresso, and a bit of peanuts are pretty consistent through the first third. Not quite the punch of strength I expected.

24 hours of rest, but I would buy a box today if they weren't 50 count chests.

Aladino Maduro Box Pressed Corona Looking for a good low cost box stuffer. Just bought the wife a new car. I'm happy for her, but the extra $170 a month will effect the cigar budget.

This has actually developed more pepper strength sitting in the Tupperware. The cream and marzipan are definitely stronger, but now the pepper is eye popping on the retrohale.

Hay and wood with a bit of citrus and cream on the retrohale after a half inch.

That was the closest thing in my memory. It wasn't exactly like a bell pepper, but it was very reminiscent.

Monovarietal Dominican Corojo The weather has been delayed until early evening. So, I'm just trying to get one more in. A week and a half at 65% has helped it quite a bit. The first inch is red earth, green bell peppers turning to grass,and spice with that certain Dominican twang.