Admiraal de Ruyter Toro


  • 12:44:22 PM

    Wrapper: Satisfactory

  • 0 min

    Band: Very attractive

  • 3 min

    A cigar by a Belgian brand named after a Dutch admiral and manufactured in the Domnican Republic. I swear sometimes it's easier to track Russian oligarchs' off-shore accounts than to determine the provenance of a cigar.

  • 4 min

    Online and real-life censorship of information about tobacco products doesn't help either.

  • 6 min

    But regardless of the nanny state's efforts, this fine looking cigar has inhabited my humidor for a while now. Time to incinerate it.

  • 6 min

    Slowly, of course.

  • 6 min

    Wood

  • 8 min

    The draw is excellent and there is lots of smoke.

  • 10 min

    The first flavors are mostly woody but varied.

  • 11 min

    Vegetal

  • 15 min

    Wood

  • 15 min

    Vegetal

  • 15 min

    Nuts/beans

  • 18 min

    Wood

  • 18 min

    Herbs/spices

  • 20 min

    Wood

  • 20 min

    Earth

  • 20 min

    Sweet

  • 22 min

    Vegetal

  • 25 min

    Pepper

  • 25 min

    Herbs/spices

  • 31 min

    Nuts/beans

  • 31 min

    Herbs/spices

  • 31 min

    Very nice flavors in the second third.

  • 33 min

    Sweet

  • 33 min

    Nuts/beans

  • 37 min

    Nuts/beans

  • 46 min

    Nuts/beans

  • 46 min

    Vegetal

  • 52 min

    Earth

  • 54 min

    Animal

  • 57 min

    Pepper

  • 58 min

    Nuts/beans

  • 63 min

    Like the second third, the final third announces itself with distinctly different flavors. Pretty neat when that happens.

  • 71 min

    Nuts/beans

  • 72 min

    Animal

  • 78 min

    Pepper

  • 78 min

    Nuts/beans

  • 86 min

    I really enjoyed this cigar but my fingers are getting burned so it's time to put it away.

  • 86 min

    Draw: Very good

  • 86 min

    Burn: Very good

  • 86 min

    Ash: Good

  • 86 min

    Strength: Medium

  • Result
    Appearance 75
    Construction 92
    Complexity 100
    Dynamics 86
    Strength 50
    Total 82
Production Details

Brand Owner
MaranCigars BVBA
Factory
Intercigar S.A.
Wrapper
Mexican San Andres
Binder
Dominican Republic
Filler
Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, USA
Size
6 x 54
Status
-

Ratings

Score Percentile Rank
82 15 29

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