The Privada Red Aged 6 Years

The Privada Red Aged 6 Years

• Size: 5 x 52
• Strength: Medium

Tasting Notes: The body is dried peach and barnyard. The foot is natural tobacco, hay, and cocoa. The cold draw is more dried fruit and cayenne pepper. The first third starts with cocoa, black tea, floral, dank cedar, and red pepper. There are bitter chocolate and sweet creamy smoke. There is a fake banana note I get that makes me think of banana Laffy Taffy which plays into the name. Cocoa powder, sweet cream, minerals, and woods. There is also a very distinct black iced tea note I get throughout the cigar. I get notes of dried fruits, and herbs like rosemary and tea leaves. The second third starts out with dank cedar, black tea, white pepper, and creamy smoke. It’s beginning to get hard to pinpoint flavors because of this. They are melding together nicely and a lot faster than most cigars. We see some bread notes, like pumpernickel, peanuts, cedar, less dank than before with hints of cocoa, dried currants, and raisins. In the final third, the retrohale becomes a bit ashy. The berry flavors keep changing. The finish is now leaving pepper on my palate. The mouthfeel reminds me of warm apple pie and cinnamon. Prune, cedar, teas, and then a splash of vanilla thrown in from time to time make this thing a small killer! I also got charred woods in the end… what a well-balanced stick.