It’s not every year that a new blend comes out in the My Father line of cigars from the My Father Cigar Company. I counted 23 regular lines on their website and only 7 of those wore the “My Father” name. My Father Blue is the first product from the company to come from their newly established Honduras factory. Especially significant is that this is the first cigar from My Father…or any Don Pepin Garcia offshoot, for that matter…that is primarily Honduran leaf. They started growing their own tobacco in Honduras several years ago and the Blue features Corojo and Criollo varietals from their farm wrapped in a Connecticut Broadleaf rosado wrapper.
The medium-brown wrapper had a nice oiliness under my fingertips and aromas of earth and cocoa powder. The foot of the cigar had more grassy and hay notes than a typical My Father blend, along with touches of cedar, bell pepper, and earth. The cold draw had more vegetal and woody notes.
Once fired up the My Father Blue took on a very medium-bodied stance with flavors of hay and cedar, along with slight bell pepper notes, and some red pepper flake on the nose. It was definitely a departure from the typical full-force Nicaraguan spicy punch at the beginning of so many My Father blends, that it does come off like a completely different company, which I guess was part of the strategy…diversify origins, diversify blends. I would describe my fandom of Honduran leaf as “limited and specific.” Love some Camacho, Punch, and CLE blends, find many old school Rocky Patel, General, and Alec Bradley blends quite boring. I would put this in that category of Honduran-heavy blends that I would buy again. Not my favorite thing wearing the My Father label, but definitely a nice blend.
