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View Poll Results: How would you rate the TTT Trinidad 444 or Corona overall on a scale of 1-9? | |||
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2 A little better than awful | 0 | 0% | |
3 Below average | 0 | 0% | |
4 Average | 2 | 18.18% | |
5 A little better than average | 1 | 9.09% | |
6 Above average | 0 | 0% | |
7 Good | 6 | 54.55% | |
8 Very good | 0 | 0% | |
9 Excellent | 2 | 18.18% | |
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12-02-2006, 08:43 PM | #1 |
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NC TTT Trinidad Corona & 444 Petit/Short Corona
These are pungent smokes.
I've never sprung for a full box of TTT Trinidads in any size. The ones I've tried (robustos) came in samplers or four-packs from JR. I've had a few of the robustos and was underwhelmed. And when I tried one of the 444s last year on a cold winter night, I thought it was pretty much in line with the robustos: fuller flavored than some cigars, but nothing spectacular. In all fairness to the cigar, I was not 100% healthy at the time (recovering from a strep throat & cold), and I had just consumed a meal with a fair amount of spicy food. I suppose one or both of those factors could have dulled my palate. Anyway, I tossed the last 444 into my humidor, cello on, along with the coronas, which remained in their little aluminum coffin, also cello on. Fast forward a year. I go to the humidor looking for a small-format smoke to take on a walk. Hey... I'll try one of the Trinidad coronas. First impression: very pungent cigar. This, after a meal of baked pasta with sausage and bell peppers and some Portugese wine. I wish I had something like a glass of port to go with the cigar, but not an option while walking. I like bitter flavors; I take my coffee very strong and black, and I take the occasional espresso the same way. This cigar wasn't exactly bitter-- it had a good taste-- but the flavor was very strong, in a good way. I thought it might have been a fluke, until I smoked one of the Trinidad 444 petit/short coronas earlier this evening. This, after a meal of pepperoni pizza (cooked in wood-burning oven) and a couple Peronis. In short, also a very pungent cigar. Pungent and strong-flavored is not a bad thing, but I seem to be in a phase right now where these are almost too pungent and strong-flavored for me. I just had a three-cigar day yesterday: Altadis Quintero robusto (outstanding; definitely medium-to-full bodied... sourced back in 2002 before the reblend and rerelease), followed by an Excalibur Seleccion Privada No. 14 (also outstanding, tasted pretty full-bodied to me), followed by an LGC Serie R #5 (I was not blown away, but it was following on the heels of two very good cigars). In comparison to the Quintero and the Excalibur, these two TTT Trinidads I smoked this week were in a league of their own as far as pungency and strong flavor. I'm going to try another one of the coronas with a glass of port and see how it does. I have a new appreciation for these TTT Trinidads.
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