Aladino Limited Edition

📌 Brand: Aladino
📌 Line: Limited Edition
📌 Size: Toro (6" × 52)
📌 Weight: 16.2 g
📌 Age: 1 year
📌 Origin: Honduras

Tasting Notes

• Cedar – Classic Aladino woodiness

• Sweet Spice – Hints of cinnamon and clove

• Earth – Mild and dusty

• Toasted Bread – Gentle background note

First Impressions

The Aladino Limited Edition shows a medium-brown wrapper with a silky texture and faint oils. Pre-light aromas give cedar, sweet spice, and hay. Cold draw is smooth, slightly open, offering mild sweetness.

Smoking Experience

• First Third – Cedar and toast open nicely, but burn begins tunneling early, forcing constant touch-ups.

• Second Third – Sweet spice attempts to emerge but is muted by poor combustion. Relight needed twice as tunneling deepens.

• Final Third – Flavors flatten to dry earth and bitterness. A third relight is needed to finish, smoke becomes thin and flavorless.

Pairings

• Alcohol – Brugal 1888 Rum , caramel, oak, and spice to add warmth and compensate for muted cigar flavor.

• Tea – Darjeeling Second Flush (India), muscatel brightness to refresh the palate between harsh draws.

Music Pairing

“The Payback” – James Brown

Gritty groove reflecting the cigar’s tough fight to perform.

Final Thoughts

The Aladino Limited Edition disappoints with burn and tunneling issues throughout. While early flavors show promise with cedar and spice, repeated relights and poor combustion strip away nuance and satisfaction.

Final Score: 4/10
Why not a 10?
Severe tunneling and three relights completely disrupted balance and muted nearly all flavor development.

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