As a brand, Ashton is known for meticulous quality control. Consequently a new Ashton release is a special occasion since the makers of Ashton cigars are not particularly pressured to put out a cigar every year.

Less than ten Ashton cigar lines exist even though the Ashton brand has been in the market for more than 3 decades. Infact, our topic today, Ashton Symmetry, debuted in 2014, almost a decade after Ashton ESG which debuted in 2006.

About Ashton Symmetry

Like all the other Ashton cigars, Ashton Symmetry is blended by the Fuente Family and in particular Carlos Fuente Jnr. It took four painstaking years to come up with the perfect. The release was delayed when a fire razed Fuente’s warehouses destroying precious tobacco. Finally, Ashton Symmetry was introduced in the 2014 IPCPR show and hit the shelves in October of the same year.

The idea behind Symmetry is balance. Ashton Symmetry features an oily, reddish-brown Habano-seed wrapper from Ecuador covering a Dominican binder. At the core are potent leaves harvested from Un Buen Vecino farm in Esteli Nicaragua and premium fillers from Chateau de la Fuente and Villa Gonzalez in the Dominican Republic. This is the first time an Ashton cigar featured Nicaraguan tobacco and actually the first time the Fuentes featured Nicaraguan tobacco in their blend. Ashton Symmetry is rolled at Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia in the Dominican Republic.

The Ashton Symmetry has 5 vitolas:

• Prestige (6.75 x 49)

• Robusto (5 x 50)

• Belicoso (5.25 x 52)

• Sublime (6 x 52)

• Prism (5.625 x 46)
  

Ashton Symmetry:Tasting Notes

This is a medium to full blend which begins with an uncharacteristic pepper blast. Dominant notes include cream, chocolate, caramel, cinnamon, spice, cedar, roasted coffee, vanilla, walnuts, sour cherry, earth, dates, floral and fruity notes, nuts, leather, and citrus.

As far as accolades are concerned, Ashton Symmetry has received 90+ ratings on almost all the vitolas. The Robusto got a 94 and a position in the Top 10 cigars of 2015, Belicoso got a 93 and the N0.6 cigar of 2017, the Sublime got a 90 while the Prestige got a 93.

About Ashton Cigars

Ashton Cigars was founded by Robert Levin in 1985. Robert Levin began handling tobacco when he was in grade school helping out in his father’s cigar store, Holt’s Cigar Company. Shortly after completing school, he went in to work with his father as he figured out what he wanted to do and the rest is history.

He inherited Holt’s Cigar Company in the 1970s. Holt’s was a strong cigar retailer with an established catalogue business. After being in the retail business for a while Robert decided to produce his own cigars to match what he wanted to smoke. The first Ashton cigar was released in 1985 in partnership with Henke Kelner. After a few years, Robert Levin decided to work with the Fuente Family instead. The resulting cigar is the Ashton Classic that is still popular to date. Aside from the Classic and Symmetry, Ashton also has Cabinet, VSG, and Esquire among other successful cigar lines.