Abe Flores puts his own name on this one, which tells you where it sits in the Pinar del Rio catalogue. Grand Reserve Maduro uses long-aged Dominican and Nicaraguan filler under a dark, oily maduro wrapper, and the tobacco has clearly had time.
Smooth is the word that keeps coming up. Cocoa, coffee and a soft raisin sweetness, without the rough edges that cheaper maduros carry. The Half Corona is a genuinely good thirty-minute cigar, not a compromise.
Wrapper: Maduro
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dominican and Nicaraguan
Strength: Medium to full
Sizes: Robusto (5.0" x 52), Grand Toro (6.0" x 54), Double Magnum (6.0" x 60), Half Corona (3.5" x 46)
The Double Magnum is the one to hand someone who thinks 60-ring cigars cannot be refined.