Diesel Sideshow Sampler Elephant Man - K A P L O W I T Z Scale Cigar Review

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THE CIGAR

Diesel Sideshow Sampler

Elephant Man

6 x 52 layered Barber-pole Toro

Diesel Unlimited blend:

w. Ecuadorian Habano

b. Honduran Habano

f. Nicaraguan and Mexican

I smoked its Bohemian Twins sampler brother on a The Kaplowitz Show HERE.
Pick up this neat 'nuff conversation piece Sideshow HERE at Cigars City.

K A P L O W I T Z SCALE

K least, Z most

Construction W
Combustion L
Flavors W
Body W
Strength I

&

Sweet L
Sour L
Salty P
Bitter I
Umami L

&

Complexity L
Nuance P
Transition L
Balance P
Smoothness A

&

Animal P
Spicy T
Woody W
Vegetal O
Earthy I
Chemical L

SUMMATION

If you find a joint which sells white dress socks, please let me know. They're getting harder to find by the minute. OK. Now for the worser news: off kilter profile led almost exclusively by a surging bitterness that eagerly transgresses unto bite. A spitty mouth-feel and coarse delivery which a trying cream can't abate. Huge spicy burst at onset drowns out all else through a good portion of the opening act. All is an undertone to a dry topsoil note (waxy baking chocolate, nuts, generic wood, espresso bean). Quite a diesel, not Diesel addition throughout which grows as the stick smokes and seems to spin off from a saltiness. This Elephant Man went out twice on me, once in the 2/3 and again in the 3/3. Each re-light is a renewal of that spicy pepper onset. Body and flavors swim around in medium waters and strength looks to spike a couple inches in, but dials back. Lacks in balance, complexity, and nuance. There are some transitions when the spiciness dials back, but nothing fully comes on to put 'nuff meat on the bones. 

Construction and combustion are OKsville, Daddy-O. Packaging is the holding firm high-light, as is a fine medium tension draw. Big smoke out-put gives a sharp bittersweet tobacco note. The overlaid serpentine/barber-pole breaks loose in one instance and does leave an interesting trail in the burnt offerings, all told. Ash is a flaky faux marble counter-top which doesn't build to nigh an inch. Wrapper bleeds a ton of coloring. More so even, than the La Aurora Untamed I blind-reviewed HERE. Spitty and throaty with a liquid pepper that seeped under my tongue. Short finish of spiciness and an unclean epilogue to such. Mouth heats up before the band. Just not a lot of good herein. I hate penning negative reviews gentlepersons; thankfully --- I typed this 'un.

SMOKE TIME

80mins

FINAL GRADE

****C+****

L'Shalom