Ashton Virgin Sun Grown Illusion Palma

Worth knowing

Anyone who thinks they can smoke this slender cigar in between smoke sessions is deluding themselves, because the VSG Palma impresses first and foremost with its sheer intensity. It spoils the experienced aficionado for a good hour.

Flavours

Small ring gauge, big explosion of flavour! The often very clear, Sungrown-typical fruit/honey/sugar sweetness of the VSG series is kept within narrow limits here, only flashing up charmingly now and then. The format is something for fans of strikingly spicy, flavourful cigars. It offers intense cedar, roasted and earthy notes, the malty peatiness of strong espresso as well as an abundance of spicy notes (nutmeg) and - atypical for the series - an elegant herbal grassiness, which the blend only gives in this one Vítola. Powerful throughout, very strong towards the end!