Davidoff Escurio Gran Perfecto

📌 Brand: Davidoff
📌 Line: Escurio
📌 Size: Gran Perfecto (5" × 61)
📌 Weight: 16.7 g
📌 Age: 1 years
📌 Origin: Dominican Republic

Tasting Notes

• Dark Chocolate – Sweet and earthy richness

• Espresso – Deep roasted backbone

• Black Pepper – Sharp spice on retrohale

• Dried Fruit – Subtle sweetness weaving through

First Impressions

The Escurio Gran Perfecto shows a dark, oily wrapper with a curvy perfecto shape. Pre-light aromas are cocoa, barnyard earth, and coffee. Cold draw reveals chocolate and pepper. Wrapper feels slightly fragile to the touch.

Smoking Experience

• First Third – Espresso and chocolate dominate early, balanced by pepper. Burn is sharp, construction feels delicate.

• Second Third – Dried fruit enters with subtle sweetness, espresso grows deeper. Wrapper starts flaking slightly.

• Final Third – Pepper intensifies, chocolate fades, and slight harshness creeps in toward the finish.

Pairings

• Alcohol – Barbeito Malvasia 10 Year Madeira , rich caramel, dried fruit, and spice to echo the cigar’s chocolate-fruit depth.

• Tea – Tie Guan Yin Oolong (China), floral and lightly roasted, smoothing the pepper and harshness.

Music Pairing

“Flashlight” – Parliament

. Energetic groove, balancing the pepper and espresso punch.

Final Thoughts

The Davidoff Escurio Gran Perfecto offers bold flavors of chocolate, espresso, pepper, and dried fruit, true to its Brazilian-inspired blend. Flaky construction and a slightly harsh final stretch kept it from being flawless, but it remains a rich, memorable cigar.

Final Score: 8/10
Why not a 10?
Fragile construction and a harsh finish prevented perfection in an otherwise complex experience.

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