Vitola: Toro- Received as part of 2021 SnS Member Kit
Background
I really hadn’t intended to take most of February off of posting here on Leaf Enthusiast…life intruded. I kept writing a few articles, but they didn’t get posted when I needed to get them to be. I do apologize for the radio silence the last few weeks, but it’s looking up for the next month or two. I have this 2021 Saints and Sinners Club series starting today, a couple recent whiskey purchases, and some new cigars to give the “full review” treatment to.
Is it time again? Yes…yes, it is. For the past few years, I have made it a point to take a few weeks early in each year…when new releases from cigar companies tend to be a little slow…to look at the cigars included in the previous year’s Saints & Sinners Club Member Kit. For those of you who don’t know, the SnS Club is a members’ only club for fans of Tatuaje Cigars (and the brands associated with Tatuaje). It is limited in membership and the only way you can become a member is for a current member to invite you during the enrollment period each year. If you don’t pay for your membership by a certain date, you lose your membership…or in the case of new invitees, you lose your invitation. Each member gets a single invitation to send out each year. Don’t ask me…my 2022 invitation is already spoken for.
So the SnS Member Kit comes with 5 cigars, and you get 3 of each of them. This year I am going to move through them in sequential order…1 through 5.
Notes
The SnS 2021 #1 is one of the most visibly difficult cigars to identify that I can recall. It could be a dark Connecticut Shade wrapper, it could be a lighter shade of Habano, it could be Sumatra. The slight oiliness doesn’t really rule any of those out, either, although the fact that it smelled of damp earth and cedar did seem to point away from this being a Conny. The foot had a richer earthiness, along with a slightly sweet chocolate note.
After clipping I had a good draw that had more chocolate, cedar, and a touch of earth. I fired up the cigar and got rich cedar up front, a bit of pepper spice, and and an afterthought of semisweet chocolate. I felt pretty confident at this point saying this was a Habano wrapper, possibly something close to what is used on the Reserva sw release of the Tatuaje Brown Label. It was on the lighter side of medium-bodied at the outset, but with a very nice amount of flavor.
A good first impression of the 2021 Saints and Sinners collection. In the end, I didn’t have a solid opinion of what the wrapper type was, but I enjoyed the cigar quite a bit and that’s what really matters.
