Cohiba Behike 54

An impressive smoke of detail and range, with big pronounced notes of nuts and oak, a floral element and hints of cinnamon and nutmeg. Savory notes appear in the form of red meat, transitioning to a salted-caramel sweetness before the honey finish. 

This is a classic cigar made with an artful pigtail and clad in gorgeous Colorado wrapper of reddish brown. The cigar is a phenomenally rich, delicious smoke that more than lives up to the reputation of cigars with the name Cohiba. It is the finest cigar to come out of Cuba in a long time, and Cigar Aficionado's #1 cigar of 2010.

"In 2010, which will likely go down as the year of the Cuban cigar, we smoked many fine Havana-made smokes, from majestic double coronas to bracing robustos, and found the quality of Cuban cigars to be at its best since the mid-1990s. And no cigar from Cuba—or from anywhere else for that matter—impressed our tasting panel as much as the Cohiba Behike BHK 54." - Cigar Aficionado

Cohiba Behike BHK cigars are made with a portion of filler tobacco known as medio tiempo, a type of sun-grown tobacco leaf that grows at the top of some, but not all tobacco plants. The cigars show great balance even in youth, with a medium to full body, creamy coffee flavors and some earthiness. They show elements of Cuban cigars of old, and should get even better with age—if you can be patient.