The My Father: Flor de las Antilles in Toro

This light brown 6 X 52 box pressed cigar looks beautiful.  The box press adds a interesting look to the cigar which gives it more of an elegant feel.  The cigar was named the Cigar of the Year in 2012 by Cigar Aficionado Magazine.  After lighting the first flavors are a creamy light toasty tobacco cedar.  The body is in-between a mild and medium.  The smoke is very smooth with no pepper or spice kick.  After the first couple draws the flavor of the toasty tobacco starts to intensify adding in a syrupy cedar with slight coffee flavor.  The burn is razor sharp and has a nice tight ash and is very well constructed.

The first ash drops off at about the two inch mark.  After the ash dropped off the cigar started to change flavor slightly.  The toasted tobacco and syrupy cedar is still present.  The coffee dropped off completely, it was fairly faint to begin with but has now dropped off completely.  A nice sweet cedary spice has been added and has taken over as the main flavor after each draw.  The "cedary spice" is warm and sweet at the same time and gives a nice combo.  The flavors are combining nicely and almost start to give off hints of bitter chocolate flavor, the chocolate is only present during the draw, and fades after the pepper warming sensation kicks in.  The burn started to go wavy and never really cought up on one side and did require a minor touch up.

The last half of the cigar keeps the for-mentioned flavors but is starting to add in a nutty flavor. The burned evened out after the touch up and never required any more attention. The sweet "cedary spice" and the nuttiness combines for a graham like flavor and is medium in body and not very intense.  After about five or six draws with these flavors the cigar started to get warm and I put it down with about two inches remaining.  The total burn time was 1 hour and 2 minutes.

Price: $6.50
Appearance: 95
Draw: 88
Burn: 85
Flavor: 90
Burn Time: 85

Overall Score: 88