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Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Connecticut: flavour profile and cigars like it

Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Connecticut is a handmade cigar made in Nicaragua. Its published strength is mild to medium. It has a Connecticut wrapper grown in Ecuador and filler from Nicaragua. The tasting notes in our sources point to cream, cedar, earth and pepper.

If you like it, the closest matches in the palate test are Bentley White Edition and Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Sobremesa Brûlée.

Published by Breaking Cigars · Editorial contact: Anatolie Clevan · Sources read · Independently fact-checked · How we built this

Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Connecticut cigar
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What does Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Connecticut taste like?

CreamCedarEarthPepperCocoaSweetFruitHerbal
Our flavour map: the eight flavour families named in the tasting notes we cite.
  • cream and nuts
  • cedar and wood
  • earth and leather
  • pepper and spice

How strong is it, and what's in it?

WrapperEcuadorian Connecticut
BinderNicaraguan
FillerNicaraguan
StrengthMild to medium as published by myfathercigars.com
BodyMedium-bodied
Made inNicaragua
Made byJosé “Pepín” García and Jaime García, blenders
FactoryMy Father Cigar Factory, Nicaragua
SizesRobusto 5×50 · Toro 6×54 · Toro Gordo 6×60 · Churchill 7×50

Strength here means nicotine, which mostly comes from the filler. Wrapper colour is not a strength guide.

What reviewers say

  • Zack D., Holt's, Robusto, 5 x 50 (2024)In our words: The reviewer found bread, cedar, oak, spice, nuts, and leather. It remained medium-bodied.

Scores as published by the magazine or retailer, for the size named. Notes are our summary of the review, not quotes. We don't score cigars ourselves.

About Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Connecticut

The line. My Father shipped the national Connecticut line in August 2024. It followed the regional New England Edition. cigar-coop.com

The brand. The Connecticut release extends the existing Reserva Especial Broadleaf line. José García and Jaime García blend this Connecticut release at My Father’s Nicaraguan factory. myfathercigars.com

Cigars like Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Connecticut

  1. Bentley White EditionClosest matchConnecticut wrapper · Mild to mediumSame Connecticut wrapper family, also made in Nicaragua, about the same strength.
  2. Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Sobremesa BrûléeAlso fitsConnecticut wrapper · Mild to mild-mediumSame Connecticut wrapper family, also made in Nicaragua, about the same strength.
  3. Micallef ConnecticutAlso fitsConnecticut wrapper · MediumSame Connecticut wrapper family, also made in Nicaragua, a step stronger.
  4. My Father ConnecticutAlso fitsConnecticut wrapper · Mild to mediumSame Connecticut wrapper family, also made in Nicaragua, less earth and leather, about the same strength.
  5. Alec Bradley American ClassicOne step furtherConnecticut wrapper · Mild to mediumSame Connecticut wrapper family, also made in Nicaragua, less earth and leather, about the same strength.

Picked by the palate test's own engine, as if you named Jaime Garcia Reserva Especial Connecticut as a favourite: never more than one strength step above it, plain tobacco only, one cigar per brand.

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