In light of the recent news about General Cigar Co. acquiring Toraño, I thought now would be a perfect time to revisit my Toraño review from just a little over a year ago. Looking back at our coverage of the Toraño booth for the previous two IPCPR shows, there were only a couple of new blends they had to show off—one of them being the Toraño Exodus 1959 Finite 2013. Because they only had a specific amount of tobacco used in the Finite blend, the production run was limited to 25,000 cigars per size. Here’s what I originally had to say about the Finite last July: If I only smoked the first two inches of this cigar, the score would have been obscenely high. Complex, melding perfectly and intriguing, the initial flavors were so enjoyable that the subsequent quelling of flavors brought more disappointment than if the cigar had just been so-so to begin with. Construction on all of them were great, without a single touch up needed across all three samples. Despite the disappointment of the last part of the cigar, I still enjoyed this enough that I can easily recommend seeking these limited cigars out. I’d hesitate to ...
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