Partagas Cifuentes y Cia Partagas Picadura Granulata
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Cake of classic Cuban cigar leaf pressed into a 1/3" thick cake, about 3"x5", needs to be rubbed out gently, which reveals a light (weight), dark brown colored Cuban flake pipe tobacco.
Details
| Brand | Partagas Cifuentes y Cia |
| Blended By | |
| Manufactured By | |
| Blend Type | Cigar Leaf Based |
| Contents | Cigar Leaf |
| Flavoring | |
| Cut | Flake |
| Packaging | 50g Block |
| Country | Unknown |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Very Strong
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Strong
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Very Full
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Reviews
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| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Sep 30, 2008 | Very Strong | None Detected | Very Full | Overwhelming |
Wow. This put me on my butt. I've got a couple of cakes of this stuff stored away. I don't think it needs any special care, as it's dryer than King Tutankhamen and will preserve just as well.
It is most certainly the sweepings off the floor at the Partagas factory and run over by a steamroller. Tastes and smells like a cigar (duh.) The only think I've smoked that's been harsher than this tobacco is full-leaf Iranian tobacco smoked in a gourd water pipe (Narghile.)
If you try this, smoke it in a pipe with a very easy draw. Puff *gently* and you will taste and smell what strong and spicy cuban tobacco is all about. Have a few matches handy, you will need them as you will discover your pipe has gone out after waking from a brief mini-coma. Don't smoke around people who hate cigars. If the tobacco doesn't put you on your rear, they most certainly will.
It is most certainly the sweepings off the floor at the Partagas factory and run over by a steamroller. Tastes and smells like a cigar (duh.) The only think I've smoked that's been harsher than this tobacco is full-leaf Iranian tobacco smoked in a gourd water pipe (Narghile.)
If you try this, smoke it in a pipe with a very easy draw. Puff *gently* and you will taste and smell what strong and spicy cuban tobacco is all about. Have a few matches handy, you will need them as you will discover your pipe has gone out after waking from a brief mini-coma. Don't smoke around people who hate cigars. If the tobacco doesn't put you on your rear, they most certainly will.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 24, 2006 | Extremely Strong | None Detected | Overwhelming | Very Strong |
Well, I'll confess it right here: I don't get it. Maybe the cake that I purchased and smoked while in Estonia last fall was a little on the stale side, or not properly stored at all times by the merchant that I purchased it from in Tallinn? Or...maybe this is just rough stuff. One curious point is that it's foil wrapping doesn't even seem to be airtight; it could be that this is designed to be stored in a walk-in humidor, in keeping with the 'cigar' concept of it... I'm not totally convinced that this cake was purchased in it's intended condition and I'm currently trying to see if 'reviving' it, sealed in a plastic baggy with a humidifying button, kept damp with distilled water, will bring this back to life. If this makes a significant difference in a few weeks, I'll edit and re-write parts of this review accordingly.
I approached the Partagas flake with an open mind, trying it in a tiny-bowled Peterson calabash, a Dunhill poker, and a few others, and -- in all cases it was a somewhat punishing experience on the palate, whether puffed very delicately or cooked up a bit more with stronger pulls. And, by the way, in my cigar days I liked the strong ones.
I also added a pinch of it to a 2/3rds tinful of very mild stoved VA flake, thinking that it might spice it up a little or enhance the flake ... well, I threw the whole remaining amount out after destroying it with just a few grams of this stuff! I doff my hat to the master blenders: it's a skill of real craftsmanship and experience.
My main favorites are un-sauced latakia blends and straight Virginias...so I'm not really a meek pipester. But this stuff takes the gloves off and doesn't let up! So if that's your cup of tea, try to find a brick. Per Sasha's review below, in the right hands this may indeed make a decent blending element, sparking a tabac that needs a little spice or intensity; but on its own, Picadura Granulata approaches the territory of straight Perique in the sense that, like perique, it would probably a hardy, steady-on-their-feet smoker to enjoy it on by itself. It must be just right for somebody out there -- perhaps a thousand Cuban pipe smokers will jeer and howl with laughter at this review as they blow hearty Partagas Picadura smoke rings at their computer screens ...
I approached the Partagas flake with an open mind, trying it in a tiny-bowled Peterson calabash, a Dunhill poker, and a few others, and -- in all cases it was a somewhat punishing experience on the palate, whether puffed very delicately or cooked up a bit more with stronger pulls. And, by the way, in my cigar days I liked the strong ones.
I also added a pinch of it to a 2/3rds tinful of very mild stoved VA flake, thinking that it might spice it up a little or enhance the flake ... well, I threw the whole remaining amount out after destroying it with just a few grams of this stuff! I doff my hat to the master blenders: it's a skill of real craftsmanship and experience.
My main favorites are un-sauced latakia blends and straight Virginias...so I'm not really a meek pipester. But this stuff takes the gloves off and doesn't let up! So if that's your cup of tea, try to find a brick. Per Sasha's review below, in the right hands this may indeed make a decent blending element, sparking a tabac that needs a little spice or intensity; but on its own, Picadura Granulata approaches the territory of straight Perique in the sense that, like perique, it would probably a hardy, steady-on-their-feet smoker to enjoy it on by itself. It must be just right for somebody out there -- perhaps a thousand Cuban pipe smokers will jeer and howl with laughter at this review as they blow hearty Partagas Picadura smoke rings at their computer screens ...
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