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AHOY MATEY! IT’S BUCANERO TIME!

Tasting the wide variety of Bucanero blends!

Los Angeles, July 6 – Robert Spoden is on a mission.

He’s determined to get you to try his Bucanero cigars and to make sure you’ll find one you like, there are 13 different styles!

Made in Nicaragua, we took a taste of nine different blends and although we didn’t try them all, we enjoyed the ones we smoked:

Bucanero Crew:
[Nicaragua: available in 4 sizes]
The Crew has a light Connecticut wrapper and a nice, mild-to-medium body. It features a light, slightly caramelized taste with a toasty, slightly spicy aroma and a medium finish.

Introduced in 2003, this is a pleasant, mild cigar that’s easy on the palate and easy to smoke with an even burn. The flavor flattens out a bit in the second half, with just a hint of pepper near the end.
Overall grade: B+: Very Good.

Bucanero Clasico:
[Nicaragua: available in 5 sizes]
The Clasico goes all the way back to 1996 and is the flagship for the many maduro-wrapped blends in this line. It starts with a spicy and slightly sweet aroma and showcases a medium-to-full-bodied taste.

The flavor is sweet but a little shy, with a sweet medium finish. There is a relaxed, subtle quality to this cigar, so don’t be fooled with expectations of overpowering flavor despite the extra-dark Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper.

The taste recedes a bit towards the end and becomes a little less sweet, but remains well balanced.
Overall grade: B+: Very Good.

Bucanero El Capitan:
[Nicaragua: available in one size]
“The Captain” is a box-pressed beauty that debuted in 2001, featuring a Costa Rican-grown maduro wrapper. It offers a medium body and has a spicy aroma.

The treat is in the taste, which has a creamy core to it and a touch of sweetness on the finish. It’s well balanced and consistent with an easy draw and a pleasure to smoke.
Overall grade: A-: Excellent.

Bucanero Full Sail:
[Nicaragua: available in 2 sizes]
The Full Sail has been around since 2002 and features a Costa Rican maduro wrapper with a medium-to-full body. It has a light, spicy aroma and a very nice, light caramelized taste from the start. There’s just a suggestion of spice on the medium finish.

This blend is consistent and interesting with subtleties in the intensity of the flavor as you move through the cigar. In a word, a winner.
Overall grade: A-: Excellent. Bucanero Salsa:
[Nicaragua: available in 2 sizes]
As you might expect from a cigar with this name, the Salsa offers a spicy aroma to accompany its medium-to-full body. Introduced in 2003, this is another maduro-wrapped shape, this time with a Nicaraguan-grown Criollo wrapper.

The flavor has a sweetness to it, aided by a medium finish, but it’s not overpowering. It’s actually rather demure, with a tinge of spice on the finish. It maintains a consistent quality right through to the end and offers surprising delicacy in flavor.
Overall grade: A-: Excellent.

Bucanero Windjammer:
[Nicaragua: available in 5 sizes]
The Windjammer is the original Bucanero blend, first offered in 1995. It has a medium body with a slightly sweet, toasty aroma.

The flavor leans toward caramel with a nice sweetness and a medium finish. It’s understated and smokes well thanks to excellent construction and has a nice, clean draw.

Don’t oversmoke the Windjammer, looking for more intense flavors, lest it turn grassy. Relax with it and you will enjoy the lightly balanced taste and even burn.
Overall grade: B+: Very Good.

Bucanero Z:
[Nicaragua: available in 2 sizes]
The Z is full-bodied, with yet another style of maduro wrapper, this time from Indonesia. The body is square-pressed and there’s a toasty, slightly spicy aroma at the start.

This blend has a unique taste that’s quite heavy in the mouth, but not overpowering. There’s a slight caramelized note and a short finish that exhibits some sweetness. Inexperienced smokers may have some trouble with this combination, as it’s unusual, but quite satisfying. There’s a modest, peppery accent at the end of the cigar, but it’s only a signal that this singular smoking experience has come to a close.
Overall grade: A-: Excellent.

Bundelo by Bucanero Cameroon:
[Nicaragua: available in 3 sizes]
The “Bundelo” selection debuted in 2006 and offers excellent value as well as quality in taste and construction.

The Cameroon-wrapped edition is box-pressed and has a medium body to go along with a toasty aroma. There’s a rich, caramelized taste and a short finish, but you will be sure to notice the solid feel and heft of this cigar.

It’s easy to smoke and consistent right to the end. At suggested retail prices of about $2.90 before local tobacco taxes – in any of the three sizes – it’s not only a terrific cigar, but a real value as well!
Overall grade: A-: Excellent.

Bundelo by Bucanero Havana Rose:
[Nicaragua: available in 3 sizes]
This blend isn’t heavy, but fills the mouth more completely, with a medium-to-full body and a spicy aroma, offered in three larger sizes of 6 inches by 60 ring (Canon), 7 inches by 48 ring (Gigante) and 8 inches by 50 ring (Presidente).

All feature an elegant Nicaraguan-grown Rosado-shade wrapper that helps to provide a nice caramelized taste with a note of spice on the short finish. This is a gentle cigar, airy and easy to enjoy.

The flavor flattens a bit in the second half, but the Havana Rose is a good candidate for golf or enjoying a cigar after a light lunch outdoors. At suggested retail prices of around $2.80 each, it’s also easy on the pocketbook.
Overall grade: B: Good.

The Bucanero line exhibits a welcome discipline in construction and a subtlety in taste in many of the lines that is quite remarkable, especially with so many with maduro wrappers of so many different origins! It’s a line worth exploring, not only of the nine blends we described above, but of the four others we didn’t cover!
~ Rich Perelman

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