Villiger La Meridiana Robusto Test Report

Villiger La Meridiana Robusto: A wonderful journey of pleasure! I tested three of them and you should see the smile on my face 🙂

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: Robusto (length: 127 mm / ring size: 50)

Tobacco: Wrapper: Nicaragua / binder: Nicaragua / filler: Honduras

Price: Status September 2022

CHF 9.10 / box of 20 CHF 182.00

EUR 5.10 / box of 20 EUR 102

Personal impressions of pleasure

Recommended acclimatization: X days with cellophane in the humidor

First half

Tongue, palate: Lots of wood and some leather / subtly sweet (very subtle) / very gently peppery

Retronasal: Interesting, there was nut 🙂 / wood here

R+ ZiZo vacuum technology: An incredible amount of nuts and wood!

Umami: fleshy / gently astringent

Strength 3/5

Second half

Coffee on the palate and a lot of coffee beans retronasal and ZiZo R+ / nut somewhat in the background, but more wood and leather.

Conclusion Villiger La Meridiana Robusto

What a journey of pleasure! I tested three samples (at different times of day). They all tasted similar to me. One of them tasted much, much, much nuttier to me than the other two. Why was that? I have no idea! Maybe it was the food, because I tested this one after dinner at around 7pm.

The workmanship is top, the draw resistance is optimal, the burn is slightly crooked from time to time (but nothing dramatic at all). The flame helped, most of the time it corrected itself.

The Robusto is a very good format, as it somehow brings an optimal and "compact" taste journey into cigar time.

HAPPY SMOKE!

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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