Friday, May 12, 2017

18 Sabbaths Cattle Baron Bull Cigar Review: 2nd Sabbath

Cattle Baron Cigars
Bull 4 1/2 x 58
w. Nicaraguan Habano
b. Dominican
f. Dominican Seco and Nicaraguan Viso
m. De Los Reyes, Dominian Republic
in collaboration with Mr. Phil Zanghi of Debonaire House.

A muscularly built cigar with a well balanced medium-full profile. Well delivered traditional notes of sweetly piquant cocoa and cedar around a clean tobacco core.
[A short review as part and parcel of THIS Four Cigars Reviewed in 100 Words vol. III post. Reprinted with my own written consent and minuscule editing herein.]

HERE is a write-up of the Cattle Baron blend in its Trail Boss vitola.
HERE is me talking about the Cattle Baron blend in its Stockyard vitola.

Find out more about this, my 18 Sabbaths project, by clicking HERE.
KVELL

  • No hard/soft spots packing stays rather firm throughout.
  • Nicely crafted seams stay tight as a nun's you-know-what.
  • Excellent medium tension'd draw. Smoothly so.
  • Well balanced sweetly sour flavors
  • Lovely piquancy of white, red, and cayenne peppers with mulling spices.
  • Very nice spiced cedar-laced sweet natural tobacco core.
  • Interesting apple cider note.
  • Malted attachments to citrus and cocoa butter notes.
  • Nuanced and complex depth of notes.
  • Superb balance.
  • Burn-line is dead-even gate-to-wire.
  • Nicely paced smoking experience.
  • A lovely and fusty gentleman's study room-note aroma.
  • Medium+ creamy body with sweet/sour/piquant notes.
  • Medium strength'd zetz which don't detract nor distract from experience.

KVETCH

  • Top-leaf feels a bit loosely set at times. A la a slept-on fitted sheet.
  • Rather straight-forward with no true transitions.
  • Ash won't build to an inch.