BOCK Panetela Tasting
Bock Panetela Tasting. Delightful. The taste is not a broadside full in the face, but the taste is nuanced and uncomplicated.
A cigar test is subjective
Note: How the cigar tastes is influenced by personal taste preferences, taste memories, the shape of the day, what you have eaten or drunk before. Even the lighting mood in the room has an influence on the experienced taste. The notes described here therefore do not have to match your own impressions.
Fact Sheet BOCK Panetela
- Format: Panetela (length: 145 mm / ring size: 35)
- Tobacco:
- Wrapper: Connecticut Ecuador
- Binder: Indonesia
- Filler: Dom. Republic, Nicaragua
- Price: Status March 2021
- CHF 8.00 / box of 20 CHF 160.00
- EUR 4.85 / box of 20 EUR 97.00
Personal impressions of pleasure
Recommended acclimatization: 3 days with cellophane in the humidor
First half
- Tongue, palate: Wood / nutty / tart / cocoa bittersweet / slightly leathery
- Retronasal: spicy / lots of burning wood and smoldering coal
- R+ ZiZo vacuum technology: Espresso beans and burning wood
- Umami: juicy
- Strength 2/5
Second half
- Strength 3/5
- Less acidity / more wood and more leather
Conclusion
I really enjoyed my BOCK Panetela tasting. The cigar is thin. It doesn't have an imposing appearance. The real guys among the cigar connoisseurs give this filigree cigar a wide berth.
But:
Don't do that. Go for it and you'll be pleasantly surprised. This thin little buck can do something! The taste is not a broadside full in the face, but the taste is nuanced and uncomplicated.
Thin formats require some knowledge of how to smoke such a cigar. Draw very slowly and lightly. Make sure that it does not smoulder. If it does happen: Light it again slowly so that it does not overheat.
The burn was almost straight - wow - great rolled with an excellent tobacco! There is also some tobacco from Nicaragua in the filler. This gives this cigar a certain spiciness. It continues to develop over the course of the smoke. At the end it has a maximum strength of 3/5.
The Connecticut wrapper leaf comes from Ecuador. I love these wrapper leaves! They simply taste different to Connecticut made from other wrapper leaves. They are not so bitter and not so sour. They have a fantastic woody note, tart and slightly bitter.
As always, "If the cigar tastes good to me, then maybe to you. But if you don't like it, then there's more for me!" 🙂
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