Davidoff Year Of The Tiger Tasting

Davidoff Year Of The Tiger Tasting: The wrapper was treated by a natural process to visually represent the fur pattern of the tiger on the finished cigar. What a wrapper! Available in Switzerland from 18.11.21.

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.

Fact Sheet Davidoff Year Of The Tiger

• Format: Piramides (length: 127 mm / ring size: 52)
• Tobacco:
  • Wrapper leaf: Connecticut Ecuador
  • Leaf: Dom. Republic
  • Filler: Dom. Republic
• Price: Status October 2021
  • CHF 42.00 / box of 10 CHF 420.00
  • EUR still unknown (to be announced)
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Personal impressions of the pleasure

Recommended acclimatisation: 10 days with cellophane in the humidor.

First half

• Tongue, palate: Nutty / slightly peppery / dark cocoa / slightly woody / slightly acidic
• Retronasal: peppery / dark cocoa / wood / coffee beans
• R+ ZiZo vacuum technology: Peppery / lots of coffee beans
• Umami: meaty / juicy / roasted
• Strength 3/5

Second half

• Slightly sweet on the tongue
• The same flavour nuances as in the first half. However, noticeably more wood and now some leather / more coffee beans
• Strength 3/5

Conclusion

I tested two specimens. Both achieved the same results. The cigar continues to develop over the course of the smoke. It becomes „deeper“ and „darker“, marvellous. The burn is excellent. From time to time it smoulders slightly askew; this corrects itself very quickly.

The ash is stable. It fell off abruptly. This is not a fault of the cigar, but due to my ambition. „A little more, a little more, a little more... ZACK!“ 🙂 It's a little flaky.

The two specimens I tested glowed excellently. Smoothly, evenly and for a very long time. In the last third, I had to be a little careful not to let it burn out. I recommend acclimatisation for 10 days in cellophane and in a humidor. This is not a fault of the cigar, the tobacco simply needs to recover a little.

The quality of the tobacco is outstanding, as is its successful blend. Special praise here to the marketing department at Oettinger Davidoff, which gave the master blenders the specifications. Very high praise also to the master blenders. They understood very well how to realise the marketing specifications.

However, this Davidoff Year Of The Tiger gets the crown for the wrapper. Unbelievable! I personally think that the pattern of the tiger skin has been realised very well. It is a natural process. More has not (yet) been revealed about it. Perhaps I can persuade Sam Reuter to do a Cigar ZEN programme with me, with the intention of him revealing the process to us. Tip: How to evaluate a cigar professionally - with Sam Reuter

You know, in the style of „The Godfather“: „I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.“ ...scratch, scratch the moustache...

I buy a box of the Year Of lines from Davidoff every year. When I saw the wrapper, I immediately bought two boxes.

HOLY MOLY!

The unboxing

Resources on the topic

• Google Search >

• Presentation of the whole line at Zigarren.Zone

• How to evaluate a cigar professionally - with Sam Reuter

• Helpful cigar tips: From „retronasal“ and „umami“ to the difference in cigar storage between Non Cuba and Cuba

• Download CigarZone Tasting Notes PDF and rate your cigars professionally >