Project X: Offering #15 Serie II - Blind Cigar Review (Illusione Rothchilde)

Project X blind cigar review?
Oh, yes. Project X Blind cigar review.

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This is the Serie II finale, gentlepersons. I ain't crying, it's just windy out.
Serie III will be announced & begun SOON.

THE CIGAR

*classified*
4 1/2 x 50 Rothschild format Colorado Maduro colored
Illusione Rothchilde

ACT I

FLAVORS

Sweet: Bittersweet. Dried fruit. Molasses.
Spicy: Black pepper. Salt. Cloves. Orange peel.
Woody: Smoke. Mesquite wood. Hickory. Dark roasted coffee.
Vegetal: Nuts, roasted. Herbs. Floral. Citrus.
Earthy: Chicken coup. Dust. Heavy tobacco. Espresso.

K A P L O W I T Z SCALE

K being the least, Z the greatest

Construction W
Combustion W
Flavors W

Body O
Strength P

NOTES

• Cap sits short on shoulder.
• Dry grit hand-feel.
• Uneven complexion.
• Draw starts savory salty, finish turns sweet.
• Seams are uneven and loose of medium.
• Nice bit of magnesium in nigh airy ash.
• Burn trying to even off Djeep outside light.
• Very wood-front'd profile
• Pace is a tick quick.
• Dark bread and heavy grain umami.
• Simple toasted room-note with slight sharpness.
• Bun-line is behaving.
• Floral notes are potpourri. (Dried)
• Dried fruit finishes in fig.
• Nice even draw.
• Molasses is more dark than sweet.
• Very clean mouth-feel, shortish finish.
• Dry notes, very delineated.
• Dry jagged ash.
• Pace of smoke slows.
• Minimal foot-smoke. Good smoke-hole coverage.
• Molasses lightens, sweetens in citrus.
• Wood front, then fruit, then spice -- always wood forward/driven.
• Leathery body. Supple not creamy.

ACT II

FLAVORS

Sweet: Bittersweet. Dried fruit. Molasses. Blackberry.
Spicy: Black pepper. Salt. Cloves. Orange peel. Chili pepper (r/h). Licorice/anise.
Woody: Smoke. Mesquite wood. Hickory. Toasted. Charred/burnt.
Vegetal: Nuts, roasted. Herbs. Floral. Citrus.
Earthy: Chicken coup. Dust. Heavy tobacco. Espresso.
Chemically: Kerosene (vibe)

K A P L O W I T Z SCALE

Construction W
Combustion I
Flavors I

Body O
Strength L

NOTES

• Ash fills out a tick.
• Line is vastly even on its own accord.
• Foot-smoke perks up, room-note unchanged.
• Slight heavy tobacco dry tongue tingle.
• Moisture level on mouth-feel is nice 'nuff. Bit spitty.
• Smoke texture is a bit sharp.
• Strength ticks up. I taste Ligero more and more.
• R/h gets spicier and a tick more sour on palate-drop.
• Ash pales, evenly spaced at medium distance ladder-rungs hold.
• Molasses lightens, sweetens in citrus.
• Wood front, then fruit, then spice -- always wood forward/driven.
• Leathery body. Supple not creamy. Thins.
• Flavors up-tick and add-on, tho somewhat sharply.
• Woods toast and take back over at nigh band.
• Smoke is a tick warm at that ^ point.
• Nubs softens but holds.
• Draw stays nice.
• Little less of a clean smoke-hole, not terrible.

SMOKE TIME

50min

FINAL GRADE

****B****

EDITOR'S NOTES

In the interest of uniformity, I will be working from a flavor chart via Stogie Fresh.
("Malt" added by moi, when added.)

Too, notice the new version of K A P L O W I T Z Scale. So long, appearance (absorbed by construction) and hello to the long over-due separation of flavors and body. Also re: changes and info -- read THIS, please. Serie III of Project X may read a tick differently...