This week I smoked a few limited edition cigars that were sent to me by the folks at the folks at Don Emmanuel and Plasencia Cigars. Don Emmanuel is a cigars sommelier, who partnered with Eladia Diaz, formerly of 
Davidoff, to create the Don Emmanuel brand. I’ll be totally honest, the Annunaki wasn’t for me, and I still have a robusto and petite corona waiting for me to smoke, so I was concerned when these arrived. Would the Sun and Moon LEs suit me? I started with the Sun. The Don Emmanuel Sun has an Ecuador Connecticut wrapper and Dominican binder and filler. This is presented in a 6½” x 50 toro, and they produced 777 numbered boxes containing seven of each of the Sun and Moon cigars, which sells for somewhere around $315, making them $22+ cigars. The Sun was a really enjoyable cigar, it was creamy and nutty with some spice. Shade cigars aren’t the mild, flavorless cigar they used to me, this one was loaded with flavor, had a bit of a sweet spice in the second half. I found it to be very good.
I went into the Don Emmanuel Moon thinking that if I liked it half as much as the Sun I was going to be happy. The Moon, also a 6½” x 50, has an Ecuador Habano Oscuro wrapper, Mexican binder and Dominican fillers. I kinda dig the spacy thing Don Emmanuel has going one with the Annunaki, which translates roughly to “princely seed” or “offspring of An” (the sky god) and Ki (the earth goddess) in Sumerian theology, and Sun and Moon. I’m personally a big fan of the Sun and Moon, where would we be without them? I lit up the Moon after a long week and it was not disappointing. It started out very interesting, with a hint of cinnamon, espresso, and ending with some spice. I don’t know how one quantifies liking something half as much as something else, but I definitely liked it more than half as much as the Sun. I’ve changed my mind about cigars from Tabacalera Diaz Cabrera, based on a very limited sampling. The Sun and Moon are winners. I’ll revisit the Annunaki at some point.
I suppose today is the final of the FIFA World Cup tournament, with Spain and Argentina? I’ve never been able to watch soccer, I’m not really much of a sports fan with the exception of hockey, which I like very much. The folks at Plasencia apparently like soccer, because they have the Plasencia Triunfal to commemorate this event. They made 5000 boxes of this 6¼” x 54 toro, with a wrapper from Jamastrán, Honduras, binder from Olancho, Honduras, and organic fillers from Jalapa, Nicaragua & Jamastrán, Honduras. The wrapper is very light, looks like a shade grown wrapper, maybe it is? Perhaps I should have waited to smoke this while watching the final game, but I knew that I wasn’t going to watch it, so I smoked it yesterday afternoon. These come in boxes of ten that run around (cough) $600, making this a $60 cigar. I didn’t know that when I smoked it. I don’t know if that knowledge would have prevented me from firing it up, probably not. I don’t make a habit of smoking cigars that expensive. I’m to understand that ony two rollers made these cigars, and they did a great job. This cigar started out with an interesting tingle, it had some cocoa and wood, with some spice. It was a darned tasty cigar, I’m glad for the opportunity to smoke one, thank you Plasencia!
That’s all for today, until the next time,
CigarCraig
