Jas Sum Kral Red Knight - Cigar Review

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INTRO

I previously reviewed this offering in its Lancero vitola HERE. Also and again HERE in Robusto. I'm looking quite forward to this go, as the blend gives every inclination of bettering with age. Although in this Toro format, I am looking down the barrel of a lotta "undisclosed." Should be fun.

THE CIGAR

Jas Sum Kral Red Knight

6 x 52 Toro, closed foot & pig-tailed

w. Ecuadorian Habano Light Clario

b. Mexican San Andres/Jalapa Seco

f. Undisclosed

K A P L O W I T Z SCALE

K least, Z most

Construction W
Combustion O
Flavors I
Body I
Strength O

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Sweet I
Sour L
Salty L
Bitter I
Umami W

&

Complexity W
Nuance I
Transition O
Balance W
Smoothness W

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Animal W
Spicy I
Woody I
Vegetal O
Earthy W
Chemical K

SUMMATION

Full-bodied and richly well-rounded. Surprisingly smooth, even on the retro-hale, for this level of all-'round oomph. Verily, an offering that is both "in yer face" and nuanced/complex. Complete, gentlepersons. Bitter sweet or perchance sweetbitter and sans bite and/or any lingering chemical attachment. Finish is long and complex, then ends cleanly. Savory 'nuff to make me think it's caloric -- no worries, as swimsuit season is coming to a close.

Black pepper. Leather, stiff. Hardwood, seasoned. Red pepper flake. Cream, toasted. Barnyard. Caramelized sugar. Black cherry. Cedar, toasted sweetly. Tobacco, aromatic pipe-like. Cola. Fruit cake, booze-soaked. Chocolate, dark waxy with red spice attachment. Vanilla, as a cream attachment. Manure. Coffee, cuban. Grain, toasted. Floral, wet tropical purple. Cordial cherry. Salt, Himalayan. Meat, smoked. Nuts, candied pecans. Top-soil. Hickory. 

Fun loads of poofy white smoke from each end culminate in a Cherry vanilla pipe tobacco room-note laced with supple leather. Burn starts on a closed-foot wonk, but self-corrects to even 'nuff. There is a blistering at mid-point, but too self-correcting. Ash is a cracked white sheath lacking in some density, but holds to an inch easily. Hand-feel is a bit light, but pacing is not rushed. Ring gauge does feel a tick fuller than its spec'd 52 though not egregiously. Draw is fairly open and even throughout. Packing softens a tick in the first half and another in the second, but neither holds bearing on seams or draw. Mouth-feel is a nice sweet tobacco coating with a moister than average level, but far from spitty. Smoke is softly textured and coolly delivered all the way home.

SMOKE TIME

110mins

FINAL GRADE

****A-****

OUTRO

Pizza is here. Gay ga zinta hate, gentlepersons -- and as always, thank-you for the loaning of yer attentions.

L'shalom