Last September, one of the best new cigars of last year in my opinion arrived at STOGIES World Class Cigars. Tatuaje, Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper, lancero—sounds like a winner. And by most of my accounts, the Tatuaje H-Town Lancero was. It was the sixth of what was supposed to be a series of 10 lanceros released for the Houston-based store’s H-Town Lancero Series. It also might be the last Tatuaje single store release ever. A couple months after the cigars arrived in Houston, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje announced that he would be discontinuing the single store releases for the company. I really liked the Tatuaje H-Town Lancero, except for one problem. One cigar simply wouldn’t draw. It’s something I found in the samples I smoked for review and something I found smoking a cigar after the review: When we changed the scoring system for 2015, one of the key intentions was to make sure that the flavor and construction categories were evaluated more independently. Specifically, if a cigar had a minor and/or isolated construction issue, it wouldn’t be overlooked in the final score. In a world in which most cigars we review have very good construction, we wanted to make sure that when ...
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