Cigar:            Don Diego Players Club Habano #2

Size:             52 x 6 1/8"

Wrapper:          Brazil

Binder:           DR

Filler:           DR/BRA/ Hon?

Flavor Body:      Med-Full

Stength:          Med

Country:          DR

Date Received:    2004-06-01

Suspected Age:    Unknown

Vendor/Price:     Gifted from JP, ASC

Beverage(s):      Water, Bridgeport IPA

Smoke time:       1:30

Date:             2004-07-25

Posted to ASC:    2004-07-26

Overall score:    3.5/5.0

Overall:    A very good cigar.  Complex flavor that evolved over the smoke.  Started nutty and sweet with cocoa and coffee, and ended with spicey leather and wood.  Might be worth a box in a smaller gauge. 

Ambience:   Mid-afternoon, 75F, broken clouds, light south winds.  The cool temperature is welcome relief after the last few days of record setting 95F degree days.  Mariners day game on the radio.  Spent the morning kegging a batch of beer.  Little woman returns this evening. 

Construction:     A big, dark belicoso.  Wrapper looks a little rough with a few medium veins.  Nice pointed triple cap.

Prelight:   Some cocoa and coffee in the aroma.  Cut perfectly.  Draw a bit loose, with little flavor.  Some sweet on the lips with a bit of pepper. 

First third:      Very sweet.  Toasted nuttiness with cocoa and coffee in the finish.  Good smoke volume.  Tastes like there is Honduran tobacco in there somewhere.  White compact ash.  Finish gets long and complex with nuts, cocoa, coffee, wood, and leather. 

Second third:     Ashed it self at 2".  So far a great cigar.  The flavors are mellowing and merging.

Third third:      Spicey now.  Less nutty and less sweet.  More leather and more wood.  At 1.5" left got a puff of ash, so it was abandoned.  Maintained a nice conical coal, white, compact ash, and a good burn.