Thursday, June 4, 2020

Principle Cigars Accomplice Connecticut in Review "Neither Cloying nor Puckering"

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Principle Cigars
Accomplice Connecticut

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Connecticut
BINDER: Ecuadorian Corojo
FILLER: Dominican

FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: Dominican
INTENSITY: Mild-Medium

WEBSITE: www.principlecigars.com

NOTES:
Sweet citrus | White peppercorn | Pinewood

Bright & bouncy. Quite floral driven, daffodils & dandelions, say. Primaries are citrus via orangey lemonade. Braced by white peppercorn & its interplay w/ the sour undertones of aforementioned ades. Crisply delineated; structured by subtle sugary sweet pinewood. Salted butter rounds out the corners, which do retain a sunny almost-glare of an edge at times.

Undertones are predominantly savory both vegetal (oats) & animal (suede). Each lightly-so. Much citrus drips down here for some nice cleanly delivered depth. Floral here, too. A bit of orange blossom honey. Hint of cardamom. Nice sweet-sour balance thru-out, neither cloying nor puckering. Underbelly is dirt & chicken coop & tick of salt. Finish is of long-length, highlighting enveloping top-notes & underbelly.

Excellent smoke out-put yields a classic Connie room-note w/ a slight dusty-papery attachment. On the retro-hale is a goodly white pepper zetz, serving to keep the profile honest. Ash displays a bit dryly but gathers well & from an even burn-line. Draw shows an excellent tension, a hair stiffer than open. Zero soft-spots gate-to-wire. All told an excellently constructed textbook classical take on a Connecticut offering. 

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

::: very :::