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(Description taken from Halfwheel.com website)
Villiger Cigars North America has announced that the company’s La Capitana brand has been overhauled.
While the line’s logo still includes a drawing of a woman piloting a ship—La Capitana is the Spanish term for a female captain—the packaging and cigars have undergone a makeover. Blend-wise, La Capitana will now use an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. It will be made at the Villiger de Nicaragua factory in Estelí. For context, the previous version was a Nicaraguan puro produced in the Dominican Republic. Villiger says the new blend is designed to be mild to medium in body.
It will debut in four vitolas:
La Capitana Lonsdale (6 x 43) — $9.50 (Box of 20, $190)
La Capitana Robusto (5 x 50) — $10 (Box of 20, $200)
La Capitana Toro (6 x 50) — $10.50 (Box of 20, $210) REVIEWED TODAY
La Capitana Churchill (7 x 50) — $11 (Box of 20, $220)
The new packaging has a teal color that mimics the La Capitana cigarillo line that Villiger offers in Europe.
The cigar is a light golden brown and has an average feel in the hand.
The test draw after cutting the cap was good with a touch of firmness. The initial flavors at light up were apricot, sweet cream, brown sugar, a lot of earthiness,, and black coffee. There was black pepper rated at 7 to 7 1/2. The cigar is coming across as very mild. There is a lot of earthiness at the outset.
At the first third (23 minutes) the cigar is indeed quite mild. There's now a little apricot, a little citrus, and a little orange peel. There 's also a little brown sugar but still quite a bit of earthiness and black coffee. The finish is earthiness with good lingering black pepper. The cigar is very mild and doesn't have a lot of sweetness. The notes are not popping which may be due to the earthiness. I rated the first third 89.
As I moved through the second third (51 minutes) the notes were citrus peel, a little brown sugar, bitterness, earthiness, and black coffee. The cigar is mild to medium bodied. The finish is bitter earthiness with very good lingering black pepper. Bitterness is never good. I rated the second third 87.
The cigar lasted 1 hour 16 minutes. In the final third I had citrus peel, a little brown sugar, bitterness, a lot of earthiness and black coffee. The cigar is medium bodied. The finish is unchanged. The cigar continued to move downward. There is too much bitterness and earthiness for me. I rated the final third 85.
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