Thursday, January 9, 2020

Tabacos de la Cordillera by IGM Cigars Kalavera Yellow in Review

“Have you Kaplowitz’d to-day?”

Tabacos de la Cordillera
by IGM Cigars
Kalavera Yellow

WRAPPER: Costa Rican
BINDER: Costa Rican
FILLER: Costa Rican

FORMAT: "Gordito" (556)
ORIGIN: Costa Rican
STRENGTH: Mild-Medium

WEBSITE: www.tabacordilleracr.com

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NOTES:
Dusty, sandy. Creamy, dryly. Lays broad on the tongue sans delineation, although a tick-bit of citrus does perk it up some. Cocoa butter, white pepper, ginger, hay -- all form a melange around a pale maybe greenish 'baccy core. Suede and lemonade become the featured notes, coming on in the 2/3 & remaining on the finish. Ends with a salted terra cotta thing 'tween puffs. Moderate legs.

That saltiness is on the retro-hale & accompanied there with a mineral lilt. Nice list of notes in length, but a lack of structure leaves it ultimately bland. While calm, the notes do waver a bunch. A whispered cacophony.. Not complex. Not nuanced. Mostly just there hanging around loitering in a predominately sweet manner w/ growing sour kicker.

Burns on a neat line and grows quite decent ash. Smokes at a somewhat quick clip. Moderate smoke out-put doesn't give much aroma... almost curiously-so. Muted/muffled. Draws well but at times a bit hollow. If not puffed often, it seems to want to peter out -- which leads to that fast smoke-time. Kindly 'nuff profile. Rather pedestrian.

OK. A pine coffee table, lacquered. A ray of sunlight from a window highlighting its dust. Someone sprays Lemon Pledge on it... then walks away without wiping it off. (3/3.)

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

::: very :::