“Have you Kaplowitz’d to-day?”
Cavalier Geneve
White Series
WRAPPER: Habano
BINDER: Honduran
FILLER: Dominican, Honduran, Paraguayan
FORMAT: Diplomate 5.5x56
ORIGIN: Danli, Honduras
STRENGTH: Light-Medium
WEBSITE: www.cavalier-cigars.com
WRAPPER: Habano
BINDER: Honduran
FILLER: Dominican, Honduran, Paraguayan
FORMAT: Diplomate 5.5x56
ORIGIN: Danli, Honduras
STRENGTH: Light-Medium
WEBSITE: www.cavalier-cigars.com
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50 [ok, five] shades of honey. Rico Suave. I do-so have a European palate. [acacia, apple blossom, blueberry, carob seed, orange blossom] This melange swirls thru top notes & undertones. In the top, its met w/ a buttery pale spice steered by white ginger. Also a cocoa butter & salted caramel. Smooth white peppery suede braces all this over independent bits of honey steerings: apple, berry, carob, orange rind.
Underbelly is bright earth... sunlit terra cotta, chicken coop. This wraps around to envelop the profile, connecting to top-notes where butter mingles with a rising suede. Whoa. Nuanced sans needing heavy dark notes. Luscious. Well-rounded. Supremely balanced.
A selling point is the aroma... a sweet leathery earthen thing with a wildflower lilt. Tons of voluminous smoky-smoke keep the room-note very present & kindly-so. Speaking of nose & of wildflower -- that's there on a retro-hale, as is an enhanced still gentlepersonly pepper-spice.
The lone ding is a slightly wayward wavy but always self-correcting burn. Draw is excellent. Cap & seam assemblage hold admirably. Ash is a tick dry (a 1/2-ding). I taste graham starting in the 2/3. The gold-leaf diamond burns differently from the tobacco for it is not tobacco. No real issue there, & def no big surprise. I'd say its bang is well-worth the branding buck.
We know of crushable beers. Welcome to a crushable smoke. Easy-peasy & never boring. This cigar, "It's kind of my thing, you know..." (Goldmember reference)
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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