RoMa Craft Maestranza Ciutadella Catalonia

RoMa Craft Maestranza Ciutadella Catalonia

The RoMa Craft Maestranza Ciutadella Catalonia is a short yet robust tobacco essence, meticulously crafted by Skip Martin and the team at RoMa Craft Tobac with a contemporary artisan's touch. This cigar is named after the ancient castles (Ciutadella) in the Catalonia region of Spain, symbolizing a perfect fusion of resilience, history, and art. Featuring a dark, oily Mexican San Andrés wrapper, a Brazilian binder, and selected long-filler tobaccos from the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Nicaragua, the Maestranza series has quickly become a favorite among cigar enthusiasts worldwide due to its unique box-pressed shape and outstanding value. As the most compact masterpiece in the series, despite its small size, it delivers a rich smoke, astonishing complexity, and elegant dynamic transitions, showcasing RoMa Craft's masterful control over multi-country tobaccos, possessing excellent aging potential and collectibility.

• Size: 4 × 50 (Box-Pressed Petite Robusto)
• Origin: Nicaragua (Fábrica de Tabacos Nica Sueño S.A.)
• Wrapper: Mexican San Andrés
• Binder: Brazilian
• Filler: Dominican Republic, Honduras & Nicaraguan
• Packaging: 40-count premium wooden box

• Cigar Aficionado (CA): 90 points. The review recognized its rich and refined flavor profile, exhibiting unexpected depth and complexity in a small size.
• Halfwheel: 92 points, and ranked high on professional lists. The review praised its "roots in familiar flavors but impressive complex transitions, maintaining excellent balance from start to finish," specifically commending its initial sweet notes of bread and pastry, rich layers of wood and nuts, and dynamic flavor evolution with impeccable burn construction.

First Third: Upon lighting, the deep Mexican San Andrés wrapper quickly delivers rich cedar, earthy, and dark chocolate notes, accompanied by distinct black pepper and subtle baking spices. The smoke is full-bodied and smooth, with a strength ranging from medium to medium-plus. The box-pressed shape concentrates the flavors, making them purer, and despite its small size, it offers ample smoke and immediate satisfaction.
Middle Third: The flavor layers elegantly unfold, revealing a captivating intertwining of bread, pastry, and baked sweetness, infused with savory nuts, toasted wood, and delicate creaminess. Each puff demonstrates astonishing multidimensional transitions, condensing RoMa Craft's signature complex depth while maintaining excellent balance and smoothness.
Final Third: As it transitions to the finish, the flavors shift to deep leather, black coffee, and an earthy aftertaste, accompanied by mild black pepper and dark chocolate sweetness. Even to the last inch, the smoke remains cool and clean, with a long and refined finish, featuring distinct notes of chocolate, nuts, and tobacco sweetness.

• RoMa Craft Masterpiece: As the compact flagship size of the Maestranza series, it embodies the precise blending of multi-country tobaccos by the Skip Martin team, paying homage to Spanish castle culture and the essence of modern cigar artistry.
• Mexican San Andrés Wrapper: The oily and rich San Andrés leaf brings distinctive dark chocolate, earthy, and spicy depth, forming a harmonious four-country blend with the Brazilian binder and the three-country filler, showcasing a complexity far beyond its price point.
• Compact Box-Pressed Shape: The 4 × 50 short box-pressed design is not only visually unique but also highly concentrates the flavors, delivering a dense and dynamic smoking journey of approximately 45-60 minutes, making it an ideal choice for enthusiasts who enjoy short yet rich experiences.
• High Scores and Exceptional Value: Professional endorsements like Cigar Aficionado's 90 points and Halfwheel's 92 points, along with praise from various media outlets for the series' "unexpected excellence," make it one of the most talked-about mid-to-high-end regular production cigars in 2024-2025.

The RoMa Craft Maestranza Ciutadella Catalonia is a concentrated gift, sculpted by the soul of multi-country tobaccos and modern craftsmanship. It is not only a heartfelt tribute to the spirit of Spanish Catalan castles and cigar traditions but also offers a rich, complex, yet consistently elegant and balanced sensory feast for those moments of a brief afternoon or a quick tasting – a small body, yet containing infinite depth, every puff is worth savoring and collecting.