Bock Panetela Tasting. Marvellous. The flavour is not a broadside full in the face, but the taste is nuanced and uncomplicated.

A cigar test is subjective

Note: How a cigar tastes is influenced by personal taste preferences, taste memories, the form of the day, what you have eaten or drunk beforehand. Even the lighting in the room has an influence on the flavour you experience. The notes described here therefore do not necessarily correspond to your own impressions.

BOCK Panetela Tasting — Filigree. Thin. Not for real blokes? Not at all!

Fact Sheet BOCK Panetela

Format: Panetela (length: 145 mm / ring size: 35)
Tobacco:
- Wrapper leaf: Connecticut Ecuador
- Leaf: 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 the pleasure

Recommended acclimatisation: 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 smouldering 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 flavour 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 flavour. 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 flavour, acidic and slightly bitter.

As always: „If I like the cigar, maybe you will too. But if you don't like it, then there's more for me!‘ 🙂

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