“Have you Kaplowitz’d to-day?"
WRAPPER: Connecticut
BINDER: Undisclosed
FILLER: Undisclosed
FORMAT: Toro
ORIGIN: Nicaragua (AJ Fernandez)
STRENGTH: Medium
WEBSITE: www.reginacigars.com
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Bright & rich with a surprisingly hard-hitting pepper out of the gate. It's a lemon pepper thing which dials back along the 1/3. Buttercream body and steering of profile. Citrus, an orange rind sidles in as the lemon pepper allows it; becomes a very lovely black pepper smooth tingle. Undertones are more cream, sunlit earth, white ginger, cocoa butter, & lightly roasted coffee.
Underbelly is that bright earth & chicken coop. The structure is fantastic in this profile, particularly when a bracing cedar floods in at the start of the 2/3. Excellent delineations. Creaminess allows for just as excellent nuance. Complex & calmly-so.
Well-orchestrated. The transition from pepper-bomb to creamy & almost all the way back again (3/3) is quite the ride. Mellow but never boring. Tatted lace, starched & hardened well. Ends cleanly after a moderately legged finish of sweet citrus.
Burns on an absolute razor-line which grows a thick oily silver sheath for as long as ya wish. Draws easily & evenly thru-out. Passive smoke out-put is average at best but on the tug, springs to life. Billowy clouds lay a sweet suede aroma across the room. A bit of dusty-tangy there. Smoke thru the nose stays peppery but never sharp, falls to the palate sweetly light. No hard/soft spots along shaft; no dings on seams or cap assemblage.
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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