Just looking at the Joya De Nicaragua Antano Dark Corojo Poderoso cigar can make your mouth water. It almost makes you want to put it in your mouth to eat it. The bittersweet chocolate dark wrapper is veiny and glistening with natural oils. The wrapper itself hails from Nicaragua's Jalapa Valley. This is a Nicaraguan puro that contains about 75% ligero leaves.

This is a very thick, rough, wrapper that at times will need to be touched up as the oily darker leaves occasionally burn jagged. However, the reward is lots of delicious smoke tasting heavily of tobacco and nicotine with notes of roasted nuts, anise, cedar, leather, with a lingering spicy peppery finish. There is also a bit of deep chocolate and coffee flavors as one would expect from such a dark corojo wrapper.

The Joya de Nicaragua Antano Dark Corojo is known for it's thick heavy white smoke. This is a cigar that you'll want to sit down and smoke. Be careful standing up afterwards though, this is one powerful doozy.

If you are a fan of the Liga Privada #9, the Camacho Triple Maduro, the La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero, or the Cain F, you ought to give this Joya de Nicaragua Dark Antano Dark Corojo a try.