This top-flight cigar delivers a virtuoso performance.
by Nick Kolakowski
Your plane’s cruising speed and maximum take-off weight are important, for sure, but spend enough time in your cabin and what comes to matter most is your quality of life — those little things that make private aircraft distinct from, say, the cattle cars that pass for commercial airliners: You want finely curved West African wood, the same leather found in your Maybach 62 (preferably in the same shade; it’s important that these things match), a titanium drink-holder for every seat.
Swaddled in such luxury, you should hardly be expected to sit back in flight and torch up some generic, machine-made blunt; you need a cigar that reflects your obsessive pursuit of quality. You need, in other words, the new, finely tuned Stradivarius de los Maestros series by General Cigar.
With a light-toned Connecticut Shade wrapper held for nearly
15 years, a Dominican Havana seed binder and a specially blended filler of Dominican, Nicaraguan and Mexican leaf, the Stradivarius offers various models: a 5 1/2 X 50 Robusto Major ($320/box of 10), a 6 3/4 X 43 Lonsdale ($300/box of 10) and a 7 1/2 X 49 Churchill ($320/box of 10). Each is rolled under the supervision of master Daniel Núñez and comes in its own individual wax-sealed wooden box. And unlike some premium cigars of late, which seem determined to blitzkrieg your tongue with overpowering taste, the Stradivarius smokes surprisingly mild, with an easy pull, fine ash and consistent taste. Smoke one over Bimini, recline in your leather seat, and consider: Should those ashtrays be done in platinum?
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