Cigar News - 2006 Montecristo and Partagas Edicion Limitadas

So there are a few new cigars that Habanos has just release a few weeks ago. The Edicion Limitada Montercristo Robusto and Edicion Limitada Partagas Series D#3 should be hitting the shelves at most shops soon if not already. These cigars are re-issues of the 2 vitolas that Habanos released in 2001, the inaugural year of the Edicion Limitada line.

The 2006 Montecristo Robusto EL - Unfortunately I have not smoked a 2001 EL, this vitola disappeared fairly quickly. The new ones aren't worth paying for yet, as most ELs really do need time to rest, otherwise I find they are full of all sorts of mismatched, confusing and even unpleasant flavours. One vendor site referred to the 2006 EL as 'equally superb' to its 2001 predecessor, but I think it is a bit early to make such a claim. Although I'm sure it will be somewhat similar.





The 2006 Partagas Series D#3 - The 2001 EL was rather popular I thought, although still widely available in Canada. The cigar is, in my opinion, not that great. I found it suffered construction problems, usually smoking very loose at first, which lent to a hotter burn and not much flavour and then it got very strong at the last 2 inches. Maybe this was a bad experience, as many love it. Either way, I hope the 2006 is better. The cigar is a 5 and 7/8" long by 46 ring gauge, or a Corona Gorda vitola.