Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Illusione Cigars Singulare 2019 Seven Horns in Review

“Have you Kaplowitz’d to-day?”


Illusione Cigars
Singulare 2019
Seven Horns

WRAPPER: Nicaraguan
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Diadema 6.75x52
ORIGIN: TABSA Esteli, Nicaragua
STRENGTH: Medium-Med./Full

WEBSITE: www.illusionecigars.com

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NOTES:
Spicy, sweet, creamy. Intricately, inherently, robustly (respectively). Ginger, coarse-ground white pepper, nutmeg. Orange blossom honey, cocoa butter. Buttery cream with its own suede backing which lines the smoke-hole softly. Undertones of leathery oils, light brown sugar, pale nuts, dandelion. Finishes long & with a new cayenne, giving the lush vibe a decent back-bone kicker.

An ornate profile, but more subtle than ostentatious. Complexities in the spice-sweet then sweet-spice play. Again in the floral/honey aspect, particularly when oak is added there, after the 1/3. Excellent nuances stick to the ribs in a manner in which heavier profiles oft fail. Superb delineations. Supreme structure. The nose picks up an orange pith, a lemon wedge -- adds that to the cream, heightens spice. Clean as a whistle.

Draw has a nice bit of resistance, evenly-on-down. Burns on a crisp line. Ash makes it to an inch build, does show some loose flake, however. Zero hard/soft spots, cap and seam assemblage show no woe. I'd like a higher smoke out-put into the aroma but the job gets did in a sunlit earth manner, with sweetly spiced citrus attachments. Great Scott! Good shit. Passable as a Revelation (5:6).

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

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