“Have you Kaplowitz’d to-day?”
Bombay Tobak
M.Esteli
WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Habano 2000
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Dominican (HVA and Piloto Cubano)
FORMAT: Robusto (554)
ORIGIN: Costa Rica
STRENGTH: Medium-Full
WEBSITE: www.bombaytobak.com
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Bold & flavorful. Substantial of build, profile, and delivery thereof. Spiced (paprika, cayenne, ginger) milk chocolate... or chocolate milk. Nesquik. Black pepper, particularly on the retro-hale, fleshes out & braces the top-notes.
Undertones are pine/cedar hoisting increasing amounts of toasted cream, butterscotch. Some white peppercorn there. Body is 2:30pm shadow stubble smooth, fine grit, what have you. Tingly but voluptuously cushioned.
Leathery oils hit the creaminess, then the cheeks & tongue. A long-legged finish of that and overtones. Underbelly is graham cracker clay earthiness.
Undertones are pine/cedar hoisting increasing amounts of toasted cream, butterscotch. Some white peppercorn there. Body is 2:30pm shadow stubble smooth, fine grit, what have you. Tingly but voluptuously cushioned.
Leathery oils hit the creaminess, then the cheeks & tongue. A long-legged finish of that and overtones. Underbelly is graham cracker clay earthiness.
Quite nicely balanced, especially when a lemon meringue happens at mid-point. Complex, transitional. Check, check. Quite nuanced. Very nuanced considering a more bright than dark delivery. Brawny, considering the same thing.
Some slight softening of build happens via progression. This doesn't hamper a smooth draw. Big smoke out-put smells like the finish tastes. Burns on an even line at a moderate rate of speed.
A gripe is that barnacles build on the palate 'tween tugs. Post finish is a tick less than clean, erring toward cloying. Smoke heats up a 1/2 tick in the 3/3.
Unrefined as compared to the majority of the Bombay line but not brash, per se. Fits nicely therein in that way.
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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