BLEND: Blackened M81
WRAPPER: Mexican San Andres
BINDER: American (CT) Broadleaf
FILLER: Nicaraguan, American (PA)
FORMAT: Toro (652)
ORIGIN: Nicaraguan
INTENSITY: Medium/Medium-full
SPICE: 3.5/5
NOTES:
Dark Chocolate | Black Pepper | Scorched oak
The scorched oak's sorta damp. So is the draw, a tick. A meaty body doesn't quite hold up to taste and only thinly-just-so to strength. Back-end is a hatchback, not a sedan's trunk. Clean though, with only a scant hint of burnt hair which is at the longest fleeting.
Oily black coffee pours into second-half after a slight trickle first-half. French Press, tres nice. Lifts meatiness and also sinks into topsoil bottomneath; killer note. Rye sour mash. Burns on a wobble and needs a hefty re-touch at the half. Rolled quite well.
TASTE: B+
DRAW: B+
BURN: B+
BUILD: A-
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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