Cigar Review: Altadis Warlock Corona

Hey everybody! Cigar Czar here to talk to you today about the Altadis Warlock Corona. This cigar was given to me by my very close friend and roommate Jacob, a specialist in the U.S. Army, before his deployment. So in standard tradition at our household, Jacob, his wife and I enjoyed ourselves an evening of fun, and scotch, we found ourselves outside smoking. I found this to be the perfect opportunity to smoke my Warlock.

The Warlock cigar is a Nicaraguan with an Ecuadorean Cubano wrapper, a Nicaraguan wrapper, and filler from Dominican Republic-Nicaragua made by Altadis USA. It is a full-bodied cigar made by Omar Ortiz in Nicaragua.

So before lighting this cigar, I notice that it has a dark, chocolaty, appearance and the wrapper has a little bit of vein visible and smoothly wrapped. The cigar has just the right amount of firmness, it was not packed too loose or too tight, and after being cut allowed the cigar a perfect amount of draw. After lighting the cigar, the ash became a solid white color with just a slight mottled fleck to it. The ash was only able to cling for about an inch and a half or so before falling off each time it reached that length. The construction of the cigar overall was great.

The cigar smoke itself was chocolaty with a hint of chicory. The aroma of the smoke
had what can only be described as leather with some of the chicory wafting in through it. Toward the end of the cigar, the flavor had changed to include more chicory that was spiced. Throughout the whole cigar there also seemed to be a hard to describe flavor that can only be described as a creamy-like vanilla.

So overall, this cigar was a fantastic smoke, well worth the wait. This cigar is a smoke well worth the average purchase cost of $6.25 per cigar, or the average box price of $111.