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I’ve heard of Graycliff cigars for a while now.  They began
as a “house brand” for the Graycliff resort in the Bahamas, a
special treat for guests of the hotel.  Their reputation grew from
there, and soon people who had never been to the resort began looking
for the cigars.  Graycliff introduced them to world, and they’ve
become a very well-known, well-respected, treasured brand name. 
Selling for $16 and up each and $400+ a box, they’re not likely to be
the “everyday cigar” of many people.  As part of a
sampler on the Cigarbid.com web site, I received a Blue Label PGX and 3
Red Label cigars.  I haven’t tried the Red Labels yet, but this
review discusses my experience with the Graycliff Professionale Blue Label PGX Cigar.

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 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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