Thursday, March 19, 2020

Pura Soul Cigars Honduran in Review

“Have you Kaplowitz’d to-day?”

Pura Soul
Honduran

WRAPPER: Honduran
BINDER: Honduran
FILLER: Honduran

FORMAT: Robusto Box-press
ORIGIN: Honduras
INTENSITY: Medium

WEBSITE: www.purasoulcigars.com

NOTES:
Earth | Cream | Cashew

More like earthcreamcashew or just sweet-earth with a tick of coarseness... white peppercorn. Gruff particularly thru the nose. At end-of retro tho, a bit of salted dandelion falls to the palate. Somewhat herbal maybe fungal in the undertones. Clay dirt in the, you guessed it, earthy underbelly. All are entwined in muted cacophony, none structured well, & really sort of a 99.8% pleasantly sweet melange. Quite broadly blankets the tongue.

Not loads of depth under said blanket... lacking in nuances, say. Zilch complexities. One-note wonder. Not a bad note, tho.  rather nice one in fact. I'll use the word pleasant again. A bit of a mineral lilt to the long-legged finish intros more saltiness. Drying, some. Simple, straight-forward but... pleasant.  99.8%. Citrusade enters in the 3/3. Hi-C (not a final grade spoiler).

Burns on a nice 'nuff line requiring zilches of re-touches. Grows nice ash, if not a 1/4-tick dryly-so. Seams, cap, shoulder, press all holdfast, admirably. Draws smoothly w/ a slight hair of occasional hesitation. Excellent smoke out-put culminates in a selling point of malty-musty pleasantry. There is something here in the not a lot of anything here, which truly satiates.

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

::: very :::