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Macanudo Gold Label Shakespeare Cigar Review |
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Written by Michael Salsbury
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Friday, 27 May 2005 |
During my Florida visit I had the good fortune to visit the Oasis Cigar store in the Sawgrass Mills Outlet Mall in Sunrise, Florida. While at Oasis Cigar, I picked up a Macanudo Gold Label Shakespeare cigar.
The Macanudo Gold Label Shakespeare cigar is 6.5 inches long with a 45 ring gauge. It features a Cuban-seed Dominican and Mexican filler with a Connecticut shade wrapper that Cigars International says is "culled from the first and second primings". The wrapper is a beautiful golden color and remained properly affixed to the filler throughout my experience with it. Clearly it is a well-constructed cigar, which one would expect from Macanudo.
Unlit, the Macanudo Gold Label Shakespeare cigar has a very mild but pleasant aroma. A draw through the unlit cigar showed that this mild aroma carried through to the heart of the cigar's filler. Drawing through the cigar was quite easy. Since I was attempting to smoke the cigar while sitting next to the beach, lighting it with matches was challenging but took only a couple of tries.
The burn was far less even than I expected, with about a half-inch of wrapper more or less stubbornly refusing to burn until I was very nearly finished with the cigar. The ash from the Macanudo Gold Label Shakespeare was a very light gray as would be expected for a lighter-colored cigar, and stayed attached until I intentionally knocked it off.
The flavor of the Macanudo Gold Label Shakespeare cigar was extremely mild, which is what I was looking for at the time. In fact, it was so mild that at times I thought maybe it wasn't lit, because I'd draw a mouthful of smoke and barely taste it at times. As the cigar burned farther down, probably about half way, its flavor picked up a little and gained a bit of a peppery note to it, like an extremely mild jalapeno.
On a 1-10 scale, with 10 being excellent, the Macanudo Gold Label Shakespeare rated about an 8.5. Not quite as good as the Perdomo Reserve Cuban Cafe series (which I rated a 9) but close enough that I'd have no problem having a few more of these in the future. In fact, I bought several from Cigarbid.com based on my good experience here.
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