Ceron Sumatra in Belicoso - Cigar Review by Kaplowitz

After this Ceron Sumatra posting, elaborate food-centic tasting notes are gonna see their way out for a tick. Sit out the next couple of plays, they. In their stead will be my much preferred 'basic tastes" of sweet, bitter, sour, salty, umami (savory) , and pungency (pepper-spice) -- which gets read differently by our brains, so is not technically a "basic taste." Just so's we're crystal, gentlepersons.

KAPLOWITZ SCALE

[K=least, Z=most]

(primary note)

sweetness: W (raisin)

sourness: O (lemon)

saltiness: L (on citrus)

bitterness: P (Brazil nuts)

savoriness: P (oats)

pungency: I (cayenne)

• Peppers (Red flake, cayenne, chili)
• Spice (clove, cinnamon, nutmeg) 
• Fruit, (raisin, apricot, apple)
• Citrus (lemon rind)
• Honey, orange blossom
• Nuts (cashew, Brazil)
• Wood (apple wood)
• Herbs (mint, lemongrass)
• Chocolate, milk
• Grains (raw oats)
• Dirt, red clay
• Leather, thin and pale

PERFORMANCE NOTES: (primarily-so)

combustion: low low-medium medium MEDIUM-HIGH high

(great pacing, line wavers a tick, stays cool)
construction: low low-medium medium MEDIUM-HIGH high
(no softening, sans hard/soft spots, excellent draw)

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Sun Grown Sumatra
BINDER: Ecuadorian
FILLER: Dominican, Nicaraguan

STRENGTH: Medium-Full
FORMAT: "Senescal" 5.5x54 box-press Belicoso
ORIGIN: Dominican

FINAL THOUGHT:

Pungently sweet then sweetly pungent then back again. A salted sourness rides uninterrupted underneath all that. Complex? It's a darned cacophony! Cosmetically, this Ceron Sumatra is the bee's knees and performance ain't more than a half-step behind if that. Smoothly textured draw with a bright tingly finish. Balanced oh so nicely-so. "Please sir, I want more."

FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59

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