Don Pepin Garcia Cuban Classic 1979 "Black" - Cigar Review

Rumor has it that CM Punk looks to be landing his second UFC bout, 'gainst Mike Jackson in June/Chicago. Lettuce stick to the stick, humsoever. I'll leave the superfluous to cigar blog stuffs in my Things I Cared About This Month Other Than Cigars postings. (There's only one published thus far.)

The Don Pepin Garcia Cuban Classic: Burns on a straight line with occasional slight jagged and blistered ticks. Two teeny-tiny re-directs are mildly needed. Ash builds well to an inch of oily tight dime-stack exterior, dry interior. There is a cleaving of them burnt-offerings in the 1/3 only. Draws superbly even off a medium+ tension through-out. Assemblage is excellent the entire experience.

KAPLOWITZ SCALE

[k=least, Z=most]

sweetness: W

sourness: L

saltiness: P

bitterness: W

savoriness: W

pungency: W

A full-flavored affair, this Don Pepin Garcia Cuban Classic. Body is a full medium, smooth of texture, mainly -- with a spicy tingle. Mouth warms a hair in the 3/3, un-egregiously-so. Tongue tingles gate-to-wire. Finishes in a great length of sweetly pungent savoriness. Strength is a medium, robustly-so. Beads of schvitz form 'neath my 'stache stubble on a coolish morn. Beautifully complex and supremely balanced, wherein even the lesser sour and salty notes play important roles.

• Peppercorn
• Red pepper
• Earth (top-soil)
• Wood (cedar & oak)
• Leather, stiffly-so
• Spice (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg)
• Chocolate (baking & semi-sweet)
• Meat, smoked
• Nuts (toasted almond & black walnut)
• Prune
• Citrus (orange pith)
• Manure
• Charcoal
• Compost

WRAPPER: Nicaraguan Corojo
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

STRENGTH: Medium-Full
FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: My Father Cigars S.A. Esteli, Nicaragua

FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59

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