Micallef Leyenda

Smoked: Micallef Leyenda

Smoked at: Fairfield, Ohio

Micallef Leyenda Toro is made of Dominican, Nicaraguan & Honduran filler, a Nicaraguan binder and enveloped in an Ecuador Habano wtapper with tight seams and minimal veins.

The primary band is gold on dark blue with red trim using the Micallef logo in the center and the name “Micallef” at the top and “Cigars” beneath the logor. The secondary band features a gold crown on dark blue pronouncing the cigar a “Leyenda.”

Oak, baking spice – cinnamon, nutmeg & clove included,. pepper, leather, mossy forest floor earthiness, almonds, and toast with notes of cereal/grain, citrus and vanilla cream. An unusual note of nuttiness is prominent with the requisite pepper on the retrohale. Interesting. This is a full bodied cigar – robust and bold without being overwhelmingly strong. I like that in a full bodied stick.

The draw was a little tight to start. Perfect Draw to the rescue. Noticed a tear in the wrapper that healed with cigar glue. This stick really needed to crank up the volume on the smoke output. White grey ash that defied 38 Special and held on “tightly.” I couldn’t rest this stick on the port for long. It went out on me twice. A couple of minutes of rest and it’s relight time.

As much as I’ve enjoyed the Micallef “color” series and some others, I found the Leyenda a bit mundane. The construction issues, particularly the lack of smoke and the relights likely played a role in augmenting some of the flavor profile. Micallef Leyenda isn’t a bad cigar, but It was not what I expected from the brand. Things started out well, but by the midpoint, it just didn’t do it for me. Like the Tale of Two Cigars – the one before the wrapper tears and the one afterwards. It may have been issues with this particular stick. I’m considering trying another and hope there are no construction problems because there were flavors I liked in this cigar.