Fall 2020 PCA Magazine

PREMIUMCIGARS.ORG AUTUMN 2020 | PCA The Magazine 27 T H E B L E N D The burn line has become somewhat wavy, but requires no touch-up. The oaky- wood flavor steps-up as the cream fades, and the strength picks up a notch. The cigar is still firm, producing no heat, but there is a scratchy sensation on the upper palate. Burn: The uneven char line has evened itself out, and the burn is straight, while not razor-sharp. Each segment of ash is approximately ½–¾ of an inch; shorter than expected, but the ash is dense, not flaky. It’s a nice steely gray color. The cigar remains firm to the touch and never heats up. Final third: The combination of sweet and spicy from the first third has disappeared, leaving straightforward tobacco, earth and wood on the palate. It’s clearly Nicaraguan in flavor, with a good amount of body, but possibly lacking the anticipated depth of other My Father blends. Overall Impression: I enjoyed this cigar, as I do just about every series from My Father. I would certainly smoke it again, and would like to see if a longer, larger ring gauge vitola might be smoother and more complex. Complexity was the only lack here, and it might be attributable to the truncated dimensions. The La Promesa Petite is definitely in the pantheon of my favorite Don Pepin cigars, and to that extent I would say that the promise has been fulfilled.