Shaggy Foot'd Toro 652
NOTES:
I
Firmly packed with tight seams and the looks of a time a' yore character actor. Veins. Tooth. Mottled/marbled complexion. Character! Solid draw of a medium+ tension. Shaggy-foot burn hits wrapper evenly. Balanced with the promise of burgeoning complexities. Woods, oak then cedar accompaniment. White piquancy, exotically. Car-a-mel. Milk chocolate.
II
Draw and once-subdued flavors open-up. Leather. Richness rises. Pepper-spices: white pepper, allspice, cardamom. Car-a-mel/chocolate gets nougat nugget. Woods chug along over brightly sweet dirt under-belly; complexities unfurl mostly therein -- particularly as a honey malt flows in. A subtle delivery of a medium profile via languid pacing. Pack softens slightly.
III
The attraction is definitely underneath. A heckler funnier than the comedian. Shoulder gives a tick tsuris -- tension of draw re-ups and I suck the top-leaf over-top some. Packing re-firms. Extraordinary balance achieved un-ordinarily. Smoke out-put ebbs/flows. Peanut butter/Wonder-bread sammich go to the 'top' of an intriguingly upside-down profile.
WRAPPER: Brazilian
BINDER: Dominican, Nicaraguan
FILLER: Dominican, Nicaraguan, Peruvian
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FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59WRAPPER: Brazilian
BINDER: Dominican, Nicaraguan
FILLER: Dominican, Nicaraguan, Peruvian
STRENGTH: Medium
BLENDER: Hendrik Kelner Jr
ORIGIN: KBF factory, Santiago, Dominican Republic
ORIGIN: KBF factory, Santiago, Dominican Republic
Mild, full bodied cigar with citrus notes. The filler is embraced with 2 binder leaves. One of these binders delivering the citrus flavours to the palate. The cigar is designed to give an initial mellow introduction by having the filler extend beyond the 2 binders. These citrus notes will stay throughout the smoke with some nutty & sweet flavours developing through the smoke. This is a beautiful and well balanced cigar with a complex blend.
This cigar is blended especially for Bespoke Cigars by Hendrik Kelner Jr of the famous Kelner family of Master blenders at the KBF factory, Santiago, Dominican Republic.