Meet the Quesada Oktoberfest Das Boot - a box-pressed torpedo that's basically a beer stein in cigar form. This limited-edition 6x52 figurado hits like a Bavarian barmaid with its Dominican puro blend and maduro wrapper aged in rum barrels. Priced around $9 per stick, it's the ultimate autumn smoke for Oktoberfest celebrations or whisky nights by the fireplace.
Pre-light gives raisin sweetness and barnyard earthiness through the torpedo's tapered foot. The box-pressed shaft feels substantial without being cumbersome.
Black pepper wakes up your palate like an Oktoberfest toast. Dense smoke carries baked pretzel crust and nutmeg. Retrohale kicks with dark roast coffee bitterness balanced by rum-cask sweetness from the barrel-aged wrapper.
Flavors mellow into malted milk balls and cedar planks. The draw opens up to reveal baking spices - cardamom and cinnamon stick. Watch for slight tunneling if you're smoking slower than one puff per minute.
Heavy mineral notes emerge like licking a stein's pewter rim. Chocolate-covered espresso beans dominate as nicotine builds. Most smokers tap out at the 90-minute mark before hitting the cigar's metallic "boot tip" section.
Manolo Quesada blended this seasonal release using Dominican Olor Viso leaves and Nicaraguan ligero. The kicker? The Ecuadorian Habano Maduro wrapper gets six months in Bundaberg rum barrels - an Australian twist on German tradition. Rolled in Santiago's free trade zone factories, each cigar is literally shaped like Bavaria's traditional beer boot.
