Chaffiot Collection
Original Maduro
WRAPPER: Nicaraguan
BINDER: Sumatran
FILLER: Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
STRENGTH: Medium-Full
WEBSITE: chaffiotcollection.com
NOTES:
Leather | black currant | cedar. Patent leather, shiny-rigid. Black currant is black currant altho it's also somewhat/times prunes. Cedar is spiced, scorched-some & a bit lacking. This is all spun off a darkly-bitter/sweet tobacco core. A soy sauce umami trigger steers the undertones. Too there is: black licorice, cola, an out-front pepper-spice. Cumin, smoked paprika, black pepper.
Smokes hot, temp-wise. This amplifies the peppery sensation via body. Charcoals a 1/2-tick in quickly arriving 3/3. Nicely nuanced in a dried compost chocolate barnyard underbelly. This extends to the rather short-lived finish; a bit sharply-so. Not much complexity beyond that. All I've listed insofar as flavor notes are really ebbs & flows inherent to that 'baccy core.
Very smoky out-put with a cherry aroma I'd love to have tasted on the draw. Draw? It's a tick hesitant here & there. Sometimes a bit hollow. Burn-line is even, save for a large wonk at mid-point which requires a re-touch. Ash grows a bit flaky. The thing, it bears repeating, smokes hot & fast. Structurally, back to profile, a greater cedar would have made a kinder bracing than did pepper/charcoal. Not harsh, per se, but also not easy.
FINAL GRADE: B
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
WRAPPER: Nicaraguan
BINDER: Sumatran
FILLER: Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
STRENGTH: Medium-Full
WEBSITE: chaffiotcollection.com
NOTES:
Leather | black currant | cedar. Patent leather, shiny-rigid. Black currant is black currant altho it's also somewhat/times prunes. Cedar is spiced, scorched-some & a bit lacking. This is all spun off a darkly-bitter/sweet tobacco core. A soy sauce umami trigger steers the undertones. Too there is: black licorice, cola, an out-front pepper-spice. Cumin, smoked paprika, black pepper.
Smokes hot, temp-wise. This amplifies the peppery sensation via body. Charcoals a 1/2-tick in quickly arriving 3/3. Nicely nuanced in a dried compost chocolate barnyard underbelly. This extends to the rather short-lived finish; a bit sharply-so. Not much complexity beyond that. All I've listed insofar as flavor notes are really ebbs & flows inherent to that 'baccy core.
Very smoky out-put with a cherry aroma I'd love to have tasted on the draw. Draw? It's a tick hesitant here & there. Sometimes a bit hollow. Burn-line is even, save for a large wonk at mid-point which requires a re-touch. Ash grows a bit flaky. The thing, it bears repeating, smokes hot & fast. Structurally, back to profile, a greater cedar would have made a kinder bracing than did pepper/charcoal. Not harsh, per se, but also not easy.
FINAL GRADE: B
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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