It pays to store these cigars for at least one year, and after plenty months resting in my humidor, I was treated to some great flavours. There was bittersweet chocolate and aromas of different exotic woods coming from this cigar that I was not expecting at all. I think the size of this vitola is lovely, between a corona gorda and a lonsdale. I have sampled the Des Dieux before and the experience was kind of flat with a generic Cuban tobacco flavour without anything prominent showing through. The wait was so very worth it!