Cigar Connoisseur's Corner, Corojo-Seed Classics

(Cigar Aficionado) In this installment, we found a quartet of classic smokes, cigars that have clearly benefited from careful aging in a humidor. The two top-scorers were made in 1989 and 1991, blessed years for Cuban cigars. This was when the Cuban cigar industry still worked with the immensely flavorful (if hard to grow) seed known as Corojo, and the country’s cigar factories worked at the unhurried pace of the pre-cigar-boom days. The Cohiba Esplendido (note the pre-1992 cigar band) and the Davidoff No. 1 each scored 97 points. Continued