1970’s La Flor De La Isabela Corona Largas

So after smoking this stick I am obsessed with trying more cigars from the Philippines. I have smoked three of these Isabella’s and each time they are ultra consistent. The flavors listed above touch and go throughout the burn session as well with the intensities. There is also some notes in this thing that I can’t quite pinpoint and are so very pleasant and it’s part of why I dig this thing so much. It’s like discovering something new.

But all I can do is compare it to what I am familiar with which is toasted marshmallows with what is super weird to me, shoe polish.. which I haven’t smelled shoe polish since I was a kid back when I would pass the polish stations in airports and was always drawn to the aroma. I can’t get enough of it.

I’ve smoked 3 of these and they all are so consistently pleasing. I’ve picked up a handful more of these for special occasions and they are on my top shelf of the humidor. These cigars are cedar wrapped, and I did use the cedar wrap to light the cigar.

The wrapper itself is mostly a Colorado color and there are bits of maduro throughout. The picture I feel doesn’t do it any justice. You would have to see it with your own eyes. It also lasted over an hour and a half!!

I set it down once to go check on something for maybe a minute or two and came back and it was still lit without having to drag it back to life or an assisted relight. I did have to touch up a few times in the session but was easy to catch it once it started to walk on me because of the steady slow burn pace.

There are currently four of these cigars left on VCS. I thought long and hard about it, If I should be a selfish ass and just buy the rest of them or give potentially 4 lucky souls that are on the vintage cigar highway a chance to try them. And these are four cigars that you will probably never see on any cigar website ever again.

Good luck and I hope you love it as much as I do.