Cao Session Shop Toro is as sweet as cherry syrup

Cao Session Shop Toro is a unique and peculiar cigar. It tastes of cherry. That's right: cherry syrup. Sweet, sweeter, sweetest.

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

• Format: Toro (length: 152 mm / ring gauge: 60)
• Tobacco:
  • Wrapper leaf: Broadleaf Connecticut, USA
  • Binder: Dom. Republic
  • Filler: Dom. Republic, Nicaragua
• Price: Status April 2022
  • CHF 12.00 / box of 20 CHF 240.00
  • EUR 9.50 / box of 20 EUR 190.00

Personal impressions of pleasure

Recommended acclimatization: Suitable for tasting immediately.

First half

• Tongue, palate: Cherry, chocolate, nut
• Retronasal: A mix of sugar and nuts
• R+ ZiZo vacuum technology: Caramel
• Umami: meaty / juicy
• Strength 3/5

Second half

• Sorry, I didn't get that far with this cigar. I gave up in the first third.

Conclusion of the Cao Session Shop Toro

The Cao Session Shop Toro is an incredible cigar. I didn't know it before. If you don't try it, you won't believe it. It was like this: I cut it and took a cold draw. The cherry syrup flavor immediately shot through my brain and all the alarm bells went off: "ALARM! ALARM! FLAVORED CIGAR!"

Take it easy. It is not flavored. That's what all online retailers say. The sweet cherry flavor comes from a special kind of fermentation. Well, it seems to me that these wrappers have been cooked in a sweet brew. Sorry, wrappers are sometimes actually "cooked" to speed up the fermentation or to get a darker color faster.

Okay, light it up, puff it. Eww. No, thanks. That was just awful for me. Like having a cherry-sugar stick between my lips all the time. I gave up during the first third. That's not for me.

But, hey, if you like the cigar, all the better. I recommend you buy it, try it and write here in the comments how you liked it (you have to be registered and logged in to do this).

As always: "If I like the cigar, maybe you will too. But if you don't like it, then there's more for me!" 🙂 BUT in this case it's the other way around. There's more for you.

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