La Flor Dominicana Air Bender cigars are premium handcrafted cigars by the master blender Litto Gomez and have won numerous awards, including being ranked among the Top 25 Cigars of all time.
Rated highly by cigar aficionados and industry publications alike, Air Bender consistently scores in the mid-90s in reviews. The cigar is constructed with an Ecuador wrapper, in a choice of EMS or Maduro, inside which you'll find La Flor Dominicana estate-grown tobacco in the binder and long-fillers, creating the estate's signature flavor profile.
Air Bender cigars offer a medium-full body and plenty of flavors, including earth, espresso, rich chocolate, and spice. The darker Maduro wrapper gives deeper sensuality to the tastes, while the EMS varietal is a little lighter on the palate. In this La Flor Dominicana Air Bender cigar review, we'll focus on the Air Bender EMS, where the filler flavor really takes center stage.
Brand overview
La Flor Dominicana Cigars launched in 1996 in the Dominican Republic as a boutique cigar brand, and for over 25 years since the estate has been known for Litto Gomez's bold flavors and unique blends of top-quality estate-grown tobaccos.
Despite building a portfolio around tobacco grown on the estate itself, La Flor Dominicana cigars have an impressive range of character, style, and crucially, taste. There's something for all palates, making the entire portfolio worth sampling.
A hallmark of La Flor Dominicana is the Chisel vitola, a unique cigar shape with a flattened chisel-tip open cap. La Flor Air Bender is no exception, with the 6.5 x 54 La Flor Dominicana Air Bender Chisel riding high as the largest vitola available in this line.
The various Air Bender vitolas are available to buy on Cigars.com in a variety of pack sizes, from singles and five-packs to boxes and bundles of 10-20 sticks. Add to your order today to put these highly regarded smokes in your humidor for the months ahead.
Cigar specs
- Country of Origin: Dominican Republic
- Strength: Medium-Full
- Wrapper: Ecuador
- Binder: Dominican Republic
- Filler: Dominican Republic
- Smoke Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
- Sizes Available:
- La Flor Dominicana Air Bender Poderoso (5.5 x 44)
- La Flor Dominicana Air Bender Maestro (5.5 x 52)
- La Flor Dominicana Air Bender Guerrero (6.25 x 54)
- La Flor Dominicana Air Bender Valiente (6.25 x 60)
- La Flor Dominicana Air Bender Chisel (6.5 x 54)
Cold Draw
On the nose, the foot offers some sweetness and an abundance of aromas including leather and coffee. The rich wrapper tobacco contributes to this, combined with a suggestion of the signature secret blend of La Flor estate tobaccos hiding in the filler and binder.
Moving on to the cold draw itself, there's a syrupy sweetness of molasses poured over more leathery tobacco tastes. Some of the spices can be detected too, with notes of hickory. It's an intriguing blend and a sign of things to come.
Flavor profile: first third
From the outset, La Flor Air Bender delivers on taste, starting out with a relatively simple flavor profile. If you like to ease into a smoke, this is a great way to begin. There's a degree of syrupy sweetness, combined with a nutty, cedarlike flavor.
As the first third continues, some of those spices start to show through, and you may notice a peppery quality on the retrohales. The leather is partnered perfectly with grass-like tastes, reminiscent of riding horses through long grass.
Flavor profile: second third
Through the middle third, the grassy barnyard flavors take more of a back seat, and the sweetness blooms through again. The cigar takes on a caramel character, like sweetened coffee. Again, this makes Air Bender a deeply enjoyable smoking experience when you want to sit back, relax, and smoke with your eyes closed.
Flavor profile: final third
No huge surprises are waiting around the corner as Air Bender enters its final third. The direct flavors of the La Flor estate tobaccos shine through, the leathery quality remains and muted pepper is sprinkled in the smoke and retrohales. Strength increases to something of a crescendo, as Air Bender quite literally goes out in a blaze of glory.
Conclusion
Air Bender is perfectly named as it floats along on a thoroughly enjoyable and consistent flavor profile, before soaring to that sensational finale. It's worth the wait to reach that final third, where you might notice notes of baking spices, vanilla, cedar, and leather, as well as hints of citrus and florals.
Buy La Flor Dominicana Air Bender cigars today at Cigars.com and see what aromas you can spot during your own smoking experience.
