Carlos Torano Nicaragua Selection Churchill
Origin: Nicaragua
Size: 7.00 X 48
Wrapper: Natural

From Cigar Brothers:
Every Toraño cigar carries the personal family touch that makes it one of the world's best. Only the highest quality vintage tobaccos and hand workmanship go into a Toraño cigar to ensure a unique blend of art and craftsmanship.

Each leaf is personally selected from a private family reserve, exclusively for the making of these cigars. Blended with a world-renowned, exquisite filler, the Toraño cigar is skillfully rolled in the most expensive and sought after tobacco wrapper available.

Reviewed by: Patrick Mahaney
Date: July 2003
Notes:

Carlos Torano has some of the best-made cigars on the market. The Nicaragua Selection is wrapped in a silky, dark brown Ecuadorian grown Sumatra wrapper. Quality of construction was very good. The Nicaragua Selection are square pressed cigars, and uses an all Nicaraguan filler and binder blend. I fired it up, and waited for the traditional "oomph" that is commonly found in Nicaraguan cigars- it never came. Instead, this particular Nicaraguan is uncommonly mild, almost bland. I had expected more complexity; more depth of flavor. I must confess that I was disappointed in this Nicaraguan Churchill. What should have been an hour or so of cigar enjoyment was marred by a bland, almost neutral tasting cigar. It's not a bad cigar; and it drew well, and has a nice ash- just didn't have the flavor or the depth that I was expecting.