BRAND: Dunbarton T&T
BLEND: Umbagog
WRAPPER: Connecticut Broadleaf
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Bronzeback (548)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium
SPICE: 2/5
NOTES:
Mindfulness | Compassion | Impermanence
Stumbles out of the gate with a pair of burning issues (slight runner and tunneling). Quickly pulls itself up by its bootstraps to offer a sweetly-spiced clay-earthen experience. Do you remember when a solid smoke could be found for five bucks? Pepperidge Farm remembers. Hints of Mint Milano, the cookie part, not the filling.
But this is a super-solid rigidly assembled smoke. Feels like a well-starched blue-collar. Maybe more a supervisor's clipboard. Either way, it draws well; works hard to please. An industrious smoke? A fine cigar to pair with any drink and any sedentary activity. I wouldn't run a lathe but would play a hand of cards.
I wouldn't personally do those things, but you get the gist. I'd both read and write a book while enjoying this; of course paired with my own cleverness. Even the iffy start works because anyone can suffer a toothache. It takes a rare bird to enjoy a non-toothache. I haven't read Thich Nhat Hanh in forever.
TASTE: B+
DRAW: A-
BURN: B
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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