Joya De Nicaragua Classico Viajante

📌 Brand: Joya de Nicaragua
📌 Line: Classico
📌 Size: Viajante (8 1/2" × 52) Double Corona
📌 Weight: 18.7 g
📌 Age: 50-55 years
📌 Origin: Nicaragua

Tasting Notes

• Cedar – Light and clean, but mild

• Earth – Soft, gentle base

• Toasted Grain – Subtle, dry sweetness

• White Pepper – Mild, never fully develops

First Impressions

The Viajante carries a smooth, Colorado wrapper with light oils and clean seams. Pre-light aromas bring cedar, grain, and faint earth. Cold draw is loose, offering mild sweetness with minimal resistance.

Smoking Experience

• First Third – Cedar and toasted grain lead, very gentle. Loose draw gives plenty of smoke but dilutes intensity.

• Second Third – Earthiness grows slightly, pepper flickers in and out, but profile remains mild and somewhat bland. Burn stays even.

• Final Third – Cedar dominates again, with earth and pepper fading. Body remains light, finish short.

Pairings

• Alcohol – Teeling Small Batch Irish Whiskey, vanilla, rum sweetness, and soft spice to add richness and life to the cigar’s mild profile.

• Tea – Laos Wild Black Tea, lightly fruity and floral, giving the cigar some needed dimension without overpowering it.

Music Pairing

“Your Love Is a King” – Sade
Smooth and understated, enhancing the soft cedar notes.

Final Thoughts

The Joya de Nicaragua Viajante is smooth and easygoing with clean flavors, but loose draw and limited complexity make it feel muted. Still pleasant, but not particularly memorable.

Final Score: 7/10
Why not a 10?
Loose draw and a consistently bland profile kept it from reaching deeper richness or evolution.

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