Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Caldwell All Out Kings - Cigar Review

THE CIGAR
Caldwell Cigar Co. | Drew Estate
All Out Kings
Give Me Your Lunch Money 5 3/4 × 46 Corona  
w. Connecticut Stalk Cut & Sun-Cured Habano
b. Indonesia Sumatra
f. Jalapa Viso,Estelí Viso, Dominican C-98 Seco, Connecticut Broadleaf Ligero
10 FACTS ABOUT ALL OUT KINGS
1. The All Out Kings' construction presents via nigh invisible seams and minimal veins. No hard/soft spots, but softening doth occur ahead of burn. Draw is a -full tension yet smoothly so but too occasionally a tick wispy. Nub is solid 'nuff but smoke is heated.

2. Flavors? How's bout grapefruit juice and kosher wine? A peppery aromatic tobacco is up-top with a close on its heels Americano. In the middlings with the juice and grapes are a mulling spice and anise. Leathery earthen under-belly with a lemongrass lilt. A rather wide yet barren landscape and at times a tick of a hollow one -- unless that's redundant. Nowhere's near exciting as unplayed jazz notes. A slight herbal quality ebbs and flows hither and thither. Medium-full.

3. Transitions are quite lacking as happenings happen on a line. Lettuce call it consistent, humsoever, as there is a smattering of maturing and slight tick deepening as smoke smokes.

4. Combustion-wise, this All Out Kings packs a bunch of time in a half-bunch bag off a slow burn. Line is even with a slight self-correcting ribbon. There seems to be more smoke pouring off the resting foot, than into my smoke-hole. Ash builds well in a silvery sheath.

5. As to body, I'd call it a medium by way of a smooth viscous juice, rather than cream. The finish is that of kosher wine and a slightly underneath it black pepper-laced pipe tobacco. Goodly length'd legs and a slight tongue tingle. Robustly thin medium?

6. Pepper/spices in this Robert Caldwell/Drew Estate collaboration are a driving yet subtle black pepper and mulling spice -- heavy on the citrus attachment. Particularly on the retro-hale where it gets a darkly fusty addition.

7. Nuances are deep and nigh intricate, but don't dance together in their underneaths to lend to complexity. That coupled with lack of transition culminate in a far from complex offering. Deeply nuanced, nonetheless.

8. Strength here would be a medium in and of itself, but pulled up nicely to a medium plus nigh medium-full all told, across the board, and all things considered.

9. Balance is spot on in the All Out Kings offering, although it is achieved with some linear methodology.

10. Mr. Anthony Welsch of Cigars City and myself tasted this AOK blend in its Foreverlast 6 1/2 x 54 format (this vitola is superior) on a Cigars City Podcast HERE. Also, Cigars City has All Out Kings IN STOCK HERE.

FINAL GRADE
****B+****
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