Cavalier Geneve Cigars Black II in Review

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Cavalier Geneve

Black II

WRAPPER: Mexican San Andres
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Robusto box-press
ORIGIN: San Judas Tadeo, Honduras
STRENGTH: Medium/Medium-Full

WEBSITE: www.cavalier-cigars.com

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NOTES:

Mesquite wood, baking spice, barnyard. Top to bottom, that. Anise & dark chocolate shavings fill in the middlings. Black pepper smoothly joins the top alongside city roast coffee beans. Underneath sees a lilt of mintiness refreshingly injected into the barnyard, some topsoil, too. Baking spice sorta struggles to hold its own & mutes some, particularly in the 2/3. Check out the cold draw -- it's bananas! (No, really.)

Stiffly delineated by heavy bracing/backing hard notes. That said, it's rich & lush, as well, tween those structure supports... almost to that spicy delineation detriment. Some heavy roasted vegetal over leather savoriness flows in at lip-smacking mid-point. Finishes more than cleanly -- crisply. Quite complex peppery/earth & anise/minty play. A bit less than moderately nuanced, however. 

Burns on an even line gate-to-wire. There is a rounding of the soft-press about 1/4" off char. Ash grows into a firm mainly silver sheath. The draw is superb. Excellent construction & very good combustion. Nice smoke out-put fills the room-note with sweet woodsy spices. All told a dark easy inherently sweet smoky & mature treat. Much like myself.

PS: unlike in the White Series, here the gold leaf imparts a metallic note as it's smoked-thru. Particularly on the retro-hale.

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

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