Aging Room Small Batch Pelo de Oro

📌 Brand: Aging Room
📌 Line: Pelo de Oro
📌 Size: Scherzo (Robusto Extra , 5 1/2" × 55)
📌 Weight: 19.6 g
📌 Age: 8 years
📌 Origin: Nicaragua

Tasting Notes

• Sweet Cedar – Polished, elegant wood

• Cream – Smooth, rounded texture

• Baking Spices – Cinnamon and nutmeg warmth

• Soft Earth – Clean, supportive base

First Impressions

Beautiful presentation with a silky Nicaraguan wrapper and firm, even bunching. Pre-light aroma delivers sweet cedar, cream, and light pastry notes. Cold draw is ideal, already balanced and expressive.

Smoking Experience

• First Third – Opens refined and creamy. Sweet cedar leads with excellent clarity. Burn is straight and smoke cool.

• Second Third – Spices and earth layer in smoothly, maintaining balance and elegance. This is the cigar’s strongest, most engaging section.

• Final Third – Still pleasant and controlled, but complexity tapers off, becoming simpler and more linear while remaining clean.

Pairings

• Alcohol – GlenDronach 12 Year Original (Highland Single Malt) - Sherry sweetness, dried fruit, and gentle spice complement the cigar’s creamy cedar core and carry it through the softer final stretch.

• Tea – Yunnan Dian Hong Golden Tips - Honeyed malt and silky body reinforce sweetness and keep the finish smooth as complexity fades.

Music Pairing

“Good Man” – Raphael Saadiq
Warm, confident groove matching the cigar’s polished character.

Final Thoughts

Aging Room Pelo de Oro Scherzo delivers elegance, balance, and excellent construction with a refined profile. While the final third lacks the complexity of the earlier stages, the overall experience remains highly enjoyable and polished.

Final Score: 9/10
Why not a 10?
The final third simplifies and loses some of the layered complexity shown earlier.

Only cigars that deliver flawless draw, balance, flavour evolution, construction and satisfaction get a 10.