Sometimes when you walk into a cigar shop, you look around at all there is to offer, and you take a chance. I found myself in such a position this week, and I quickly grabbed a Fonseca Cubano Limitado Belicoso Corto.
The cigar is Cuban seed, from the Nicaraguan and Dominican fillers to the Honduran wrapper. This is not to say it is a Cuban cigar, but it does provide a set of flavors that I have not yet experienced in a cigar. Toasting the foot goes quickly, and the draw is smooth and easy, producing nice clouds of smoke. The initial flavors are light leather with a strong hit of spice. The spice fades out quickly, long before the first 3rd is finished, and what is left is a building leather on the pallet with a faint sweetness on the edges of the finish.
The smoke produces a nice tight ash that holds on through the first half of the cigar, with only a second ash occurring during the smoke. As I move from the second 3rd into the final 3rd, the flavors begin to intensify with the smoke moving from a medium strength into something much more full. The stick finishes out nicely, having provided a very enjoyable hour.
The Fonseca Cubano Limitado is an attractive stick providing a smooth smoke, without any hint of harshness at all. A definite must smoke for any enthusiast.
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