El Septimo Da Vinci Lancero cigar review

Leonardo Da Vinci created Mona Lisa but El Septimo created Da Vinci.

Leonardo Da Vinci was a visionary, inventor and artist like no other. I think he was way ahead of his time if we look even briefly at his drawing of a helicopter. If the technology had been as it is today, I think the world would have been further ahead than we even can imagine.

The cigar offered an amazing complexity and was easy to enjoy from start to finish. It is rare to find a cigar that can be divided into 4 parts as easily as this one.

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Construction

The El Septimo Da Vinci Lancero was firmly rolled with out any veins and had a slightly oily feeling to it.

Wrapper: Undisclosed – Binder: Ecuador – Filler: Dominican, Ecuador and Nicaragua

Scent and cold draw

The wrapper had a scent of hay and a lighter shade of vanilla while the filler had a scent of combination of cacao and dark chocolate.

I took a few puffs before lighting and felt a sweet fruitiness that went towards green grapes. The cold draw was incredibly interesting and almost shocked me.

1/4 Lets light up the El Septimo Da Vinci Lancero and see what it has to offer

After I lit the cigar, I was greeted by a creamy texture and flavors of a honey-like sweetness, hay, leather and flavors of a fruitiness that went in the direction of grapes. That fruitiness is not often felt and gave the cigar an incredibly wonderful lift. In the background there were nuances of nutmeg, a combination of anise and saltiness, pepperiness in the direction of white pepper and a faint nuance that I thought I imagined but which later appeared in the cigar as well. There was a lighter nuance of Cocos. Retrohalation was incredibly smooth and gave nuances of hay.

2/4 The Cigar showed new sides

The texture of El Septimos Da Vinci was creamy as before. The flavors were reminiscent of the first quarter but there was a certain dynamic that made the cigar easily divideable into 4 parts. The dominant flavors I felt were Fruitiness, hay, cacao, nutmeg, cedar and honey-like sweetness. In the background were nuances of raisins, buttery, saltiness and coconut. The coconut flavor continued again and was extremely pleasant to feel, not only for the sake of the taste, but precisely because it so rarely appears in a cigar. The retrohale slightly tickled my nose and gave nuances of hay and white pepper.

3/4 The complexity continued

The texture in the second third of El Septimo Da Vinci was creamy and the flavors I felt were hay, anise, nuttiness in the pistachio direction, dried herbs and the taste of coconut from earlier was now reminiscent of Cocos oil. In the background there were nuances of fruitiness, raisins, honey-like sweetness and a faint taste I can most easily describe as butter. The retrohalation tickled a little lightly in my nose and gave nuances of pepperiness that went in the chili direction.

4/4 A great ending to the El Septimo Da Vinci

The cigar finished in an incredibly lovely way. The texture was creamy and the flavors I felt were Fruitiness, nuttiness a combination of pistachio and cashew nuts, hay and leather. In the background there were shades of vanilla bean, Cocos oil, spiciness that went towards green chili and a honey in combination with caramel-like sweetness. The retrohalation tickled to light in my nose and gave shades of spiciness.

Towards the end of the cigar, there were nuances of minerals and a breadiness reminiscent of stone oven baked bread.

After taste

Walnuts

Body

Medium

Smoke time

90 minutes

Conclusion

El Septimo Da Vinci is a complex cigar with some almost unique flavors that stand out. The cigar is well balanced between the flavors and easy to enjoy. The body which is on medium makes it suitable for most Aficionados. If I compare price vs taste vs quality I think it is a bit under priced and I would consider paying more to smoke it again.

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