Alec Bradley Prensado Churchill Cigar Review

• Brand Name: Alec Bradley Prensado Churchill
• Length: 7 inches
• Ring: 48
• Score: 15 pts (Pre-Light: 8 pts, Smoking: 4 pts, Overall Experience: 3 pts)

Product Introduction

The Alec Bradley Prensado Churchill has a Trojes, Honduras wrapper, Nicaraguan binder, and Honduran and Nicaraguan fillers. It's a hand - made cigar rolled at the Raices Cubanas Factory in Danlí, Honduras. It's available in six different vitolas, packaged in boxes of 20. The brand was formed in 1996, named after the owner's two sons, and the Prensado brand hit the market in 2009.

Pre - light

The wrapper has a dark chocolate color with large veins. It has a semi - box press and no soft spots. The cap is a bit lumpy on top but well - applied around the seams. It smells of an old cedar chest, cocoa, and has a slight barnyard aspect. The cold tight draw has tobacco and fruity plum notes. Pre - light score: 8 pts.

Smoking Experience

• First third: It opens with an old antique book aroma and full - bodied smoke, then settles to mild/medium. Tastes are somewhat earthy and mostly bland. Ash is dirty dark gray and black with an amber hue. Burn is wavy, and the ash begins to flower near the end.
• Second third: The taste is still unremarkable. After 1 hour and 15 minutes of smoking, the reviewer put it down. Smoking score: 4 pts.

Final Thoughts

The reviewer is disappointed and thinks it doesn't deserve to be Cigar Aficionado’s 2011 #1 Cigar of the Year. The taste is non - existent, aroma is decent, aesthetics are nice, and the price is high. Overall Experience score: 3 pts.

Origin: Honduras; Format: Churchill; Wrapper: Honduras; Filler: Honduras, Nicaragua; Binder: Nicaragua; Hand - Made; Price: $11 each