Caldwell Long Live The Queen Ace of Hearts

It has been months since I've fired up a Caldwell Long Live The Queen Ace of Hearts Toro. This is a box pressed medium bodied beauty (pun intended) with an Cameroon binder cloaked in a beautiful chocolate brown Cameron wrapper. Between the initial hype and look of the cigar, I was intrigued. Today we get to experience it once again.

Construction: Perfect draw, solid ash, burn line remained very even until the final third when it went a bit askew, but only needed a touchup or two to correct it.

The flavor profile on this stick is complex, balanced and changing with each puff. The Ace of Hearts’ initial flavors are pepper and milk chocolate-cocoa with notes of caramel (maybe some butterscotch in there), coffee, almonds and some earth and leather. There really is a lot going on here. I can usually taste wood to some degree from the first third. This cigar didn’t register wood notes to any degree until the second third. The almonds give way to more of a hazelnut flavor, some licorice and mild spice steps in during the final third to round out a very enjoyable smoke.

The Caldwell Long Live The Queen Ace of Hearts more than lives up to the accolades. This is one of the best cigars Caldwell has released to date. 5s across the board.

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