In my seemingly unending search to not redux a Tatuaje, Viaje or Room101/Camacho cigar, I stumbled across the Cuba Rica Limitada. It’s been over a year since I reviewed and last smoked the flagship cigar from Stephen Adib’s Cuba Rica brand. For its pricey limited edition, the company used an Ecuadorian habano wrapper over an undisclosed binder and filler blend. It was offered in 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 lengths with a 54 ring gauge on both. In addition, both the L5 and L6 vitolas were limited to 500 boxes of 20 cigars sold only at 33 retailers. Unfortunately, when I smoked the original three cigars for review, one was plugged, dramatically hurting the score: This year, we’ve been scoring each sample individually and averaging the scores across the samples. It was a change that was made for this exact reason: when one sample has awful construction, the amount of points being taken away really didn’t seem to be a realistic amount. The first sample of the Cuba Rica LImitada I smoked was nearly plugged and it dramatically hurt the overall score as the other two were quite enjoyable. That being said, if I was just buying this cigar as ...
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