Tasting Davidoff Black Band Limited Edition 2022 in the Zigarren.Zone Lounge. Three people tested the new Davidoff cigar: Fabian Cigliano (Product Manager Davidoff Switzerland), Christian Schmid (photographer) and Vasilij Ratej (Editor Zigarren.Zone). The new cigar is a „marriage“ of three lines: Davidoff Escurio, Davidoff Yamasá and Davidoff Nicaragua. You can find out how this union into one cigar worked out in this tasting article.

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.

Tasting Davidoff Black Band Limited Edition 2022 — Ready to enjoy? Let the Davidoff Black Band Limited Edition 2022 tasting begin.

Fact Sheet

Format: Gran Toro (length: 140 mm / ring gauge: 58)
Tobacco:
- Wrapper: Ecuador
- Umbrella leaf: Basilien
- Filler: Dom. Republic, Nicaragua, Brazil
Price: Status as of 05/05/2022 (LAUNCH)
- CHF 27.00 / box of 12 CHF 324.00
- EUR currently unknown

Personal impressions of the pleasure

Recommended acclimatisation: 7 days with cellophane in the humidor.

First half

Tongue, palate: fruity and at the same time slightly salty / sweetish / nutty / coffee beans / acidic / grassy / leather / slightly spicy
Retronasalnutty / roasted coffee beans / wood
R+ ZiZo vacuum technology: nutty / coffee beans very roasted / wood / slightly salty
Umami: meaty / roasted
Strength 3/5 > Note: You might already experience the cigar in strength 4/5.

Second half

The flavour notes alternate. Please see „Conclusion“.

Strength 4/5. I tested two specimens. One on 12.04.22 and one on 13.04.22. Both were 5/5 in strength for me from the second half onwards. Attention, the cigar has a lot of nicotine. However, depending on your personal „constellation“, you may find the cigar somewhat milder.

Conclusion Tasting Davidoff Black Band Limited Edition 2022

The cigar is a little „beater“: thick, but not necessarily very long. With a length of 14 cm and a ring gauge of 58, you still hold something decent in your hand (and this pun is unintentionally naughty) ?

What a tobacco combination! The Davidoff Black Band Limited Edition 2022 tasting was impressive. Davidoff combined tobacco blends from three different Davidoff cigars in this cigar:

Davidoff Escurio: The rains of the Brazilian Bahia region provide the salty-sweet and spicy flavour of Davidoff Escurio.
Davidoff Nicaragua: The volcanic soils in Nicaragua produce the fiery, bittersweet intensity of Davidoff Nicaragua.
Davidoff Yamasá: The iron-rich red earth soil in the Dominican Yamasá Valley influences the earthy, rich complexity of the Davidoff Yamasá Blend.

How did this exceptional tobacco combination turn out? Fabian and Christian each scored 4.4 points out of 5 using the Zigarren.Zone tasting tool, while Vasilij's cigar scored 4.5 points out of 5. The average score is therefore 4.43 points out of 5 - a pretty good result.

How did the cigar develop over the course of the smoke? It's an up and down flavour. At times, the salt dominates before being replaced by a slightly sweet, nutty flavour. A little later, the wood and grass dominate before being replaced by leather and a slightly acidic flavour. Then the salt comes to the fore again, but this time perhaps with nut and leather.

The cigar surprises you the whole time - that's why it's so exciting! You don't know what to expect next. All three testers expected one thing: pepper from the Nicargua line. However, this remained completely hidden. At most, a little spice was noticeable. But that was a good thing. Because pepper would have been the wrong ingredient for this extraordinary tobacco blend.

Why is this cigar so surprising during the smoke? We surmised that it was because of the Brazilian tobacco. Tobacco like this is very special. You either love it or you hate it. As a reminder: the binder and the filler are made from Brazilian tobacco. All three of us find it difficult to describe the flavour.

Perhaps like this: over time (from the second half onwards) the smoke becomes „thicker“ and you can feel the consistency of the smoke in your mouth. It's almost as if you could chew it; of course you can't chew the smoke, but maybe you know this feeling from other cigars? Over time, a certain heaviness settles on the tongue, you can feel it, you can taste it. The Brazil tobacco comes into its own here.

Towards the last third, the strength of the cigar increases, reaching 4/5 (depending on the form of the day); and it becomes a little bitchy, harsh and somewhat harsh in flavour. Perhaps it still needs a few days or weeks to acclimatise.

The burn is straight, the ash is compact and firm. My sample had a slightly crooked burn (correct with flame). One day later, I tested another sample, without a crooked burn.

Tip: As a reminder > Around the last third, the cigar became a little bitchy, hashy and harsh in flavour from the three test subjects. I tasted another one a day later. From the halfway point, I drew even less on it than usual. The cigar was NOT harsh and harsh in flavour. The strength increased to 4/5, but I was able to puff this one well into the last third.

Our recommendation is unanimous: Buy several copies. Test one immediately after purchase and the others at intervals of days and weeks. Make tasting notes so that you can notice the differences weeks later. Rate cigars like a pro: Cigars.Zone tasting tool.