Plasencia Cosecha 149 Azacualapa (English)

Plasencia

Cosecha 149

 Azacualapa

Néstor Andrés, Gustavo, and José Luis Plasencia had already spoiled us with the 146 edition; 3 years later they return with the 149. As its name indicates, this cigar is made with tobacco from the 149th harvest (Cosecha 149) since the creation of the company in Cuba. For your information this harvest took place in 2014.

Small novelty anyway, this edition is a Honduran puro: the wrapper coming from Olancho, San Agustin, the sub-wrapper from the Jamastran valley and the filler from a mixture of tobaccos from the Jamastran valley, Olancho and Talanga. This harvest gives a range of 3 cigars (two in Belgium) that is named after the province of Honduras, tonight I attack the Azacualpa which is a Toro format.

For the packaging, they focused on a rather luxurious box with beautiful and imposing hinges, and on the colors black, white and dark orange.

I have a dark brown cape, it is not very oily and looks like velvet when I run my fingers over it. It is decorated with 3 rings and I will only dwell on the inscription of the one at the foot: "Private Harvest", as on the 146 version. With these few words Néstor wants to insist on the fact that this tobacco is an exclusivity for cigars bearing his brand. Don't forget that since 1986, the factory has been producing 1 million cigars per year for its different clients.

During the raw draw, I am quite surprised by the black pepper for a Honduran puro.

After a short moment of hesitation, the foot ignites masterfully and releases a beautiful stream of smoke that brings me flavors of heavy cream, strong coffee beans, dark chocolate and intense cedar.

The arrival of the earth is a trigger for take-off and I find myself out of time, I literally float in a modified state of consciousness.

My tasting offers me a smoothness despite the train pushing at the back with the fatty earth, coffee and black pepper.

The draw is perfect as well as the combustion even if the burn line varies a little but it regulates itself. At this stage the taste is medium and the strength is medium high.

Quietly not quickly, because this cigar must take time to taste, I arrive in an important turn in the levels of flavors and strength. If the first one goes up to full, the power climbs a notch to leave the medium and jump into the strong box (for your understanding I will say medium-strong).

I am literally having a blast with this module: I find an amazing balance between flavors and strength. At this point, I join my friend Christof (DekelleCigars) who finds that this cigar surpasses all Plasencia he has tasted so far.

But even though all good things must come to an end, I still have time to dive into the tide of dark chocolate, fatty earth, cream, espresso coffee in a mini volcano of red pepper, roasted nuts, oak and cedar. I emerge to a large space of Corinthian grapes.

You will have understood that I am subjugated by this tasting which was carried on two vitolas of format Toro of 15.24 cm for a cepo of 52.

In conclusion: as we don't do it enough, I would like to thank the distributor who worked behind the scenes to bring this range to Belgium, and having spoken with several of them it is not always easy. So thank you Vinche & Koopmans. At Plasencia cigars, we have good and luxury like the Alma range and we have Cosecha 149. I encourage you to run to your favorite dealer to get this little gem and experience it for yourself.

Price at the time of writing: 14 euros

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