Partagas Perfectos

📌 Brand: Partagás
📌 Line: Perfectos
📌 Size: Perfecto (5 × 44)
📌 Weight: 7.3g
📌 Age:~ 50-53 years
📌 Origin: Cuba

Tasting Notes

• Musty Cedar – Faded wood with age

• Dusty Earth – Dry and muted

• Bitter Herbal – Lingering sharpness

• Stale Leather – Flat and worn

First Impressions

The age shows immediately. Wrapper looks fragile, dry, and flaky. Pre-light aroma gives mustiness and old cardboard. Cold draw is airy, lacking depth.

Smoking Experience

• First Third – Bitter earth and faint cedar, very muted. Struggles to stay lit.

• Second Third – Harsh herbal bitterness with no sweetness or balance. Notes of old leather dominate.

• Final Third – Collapses into acrid, stale flavors. Body is thin and unsatisfying.

Pairings

• Alcohol – None recommended, as no drink would rescue the profile.

• Tea – Neutral White Tea, only to cleanse the palate from bitterness.

Music Pairing

“The End” – The Doors.

A somber soundtrack for a disappointing experience.

Final Thoughts

The Partagás Perfectos from the 1970s sadly shows the downside of extreme aging. Instead of refinement, the cigar has lost almost all its structure, leaving bitterness and stale flavors. A relic to admire, but not to enjoy smoking.

Final Score: 1/10
Why not a 10?
The decades stripped away all character and complexity. What remains is bitterness and dryness, with no redemption in flavor or aroma., Construction is poor, relight 2 times

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