Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Pura Soul Cigars Nicaraguan in Review

“Have you Kaplowitz’d to-day?”

Pura Soul
Nicaraguan

WRAPPER: Nicaraguan
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Toro
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
STRENGTH: Medium-Full

WEBSITE: www.purasoulcigars.com

NOTES:
Almond | Oak | Pepper

Nuts|hells & seasoned oak are deeply toasted and sweetened from underneath by a nice mocha. Pepper is big & smooth, refrained & robust all at once. Further undertones (beyond mocha) include a somewhat buckwheat grain-enhanced earthiness. Molasses is in the creamy further-earthen underbelly. 

Textbook Nicaraguan, done quite nicely. Nothing super complex, the mocha mingles well w/ wood & sweets. Decently nuanced in earth/cream earth/pepper realms. Smokes almost like a Corojo purito, actually. //Balanced well. Aroma is a very muted earthiness. Period.

Some woes; one each in combustion/construction. The opening third is victim to a mousehole burn which requires a big re-touch once patiently smoked thru. Then, come 1/2, a seam opens up to under the band. Wonky but mainly self-correcting burn-line throughout.

Good draw... tension fluctuates mildly, as does smoke to smoke-hole. Ash cleaves in the almost FUBAR opening act but stacks a moderate amm't of dimes thereafter. All told, a very average or at least expected profile; coupled with a pair of major flaws.

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

::: very :::