Ohana Cigars Pulse Habano in Review

“Have you Kaplowitz’d to-day?”

Familia Rodriguez Tobacos

Ohana Pulse Habano

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Toro (pig-tail cap, unfinished foot)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium

WEBSITE: frtobacos.com

NOTES:

Sweet cream | Buttery cedar | Peppery mix

From the top on down & from the out-front to back-end... cream. Aspects of cocoa butter, butter butter, & cashew butter, therein. Bracing that is a sweet smooth as silk sorta lush cedar, ballooning. Then the white & red peppery profile platter its all served on. A bit of spices there -- a pale cinnamon & dash of cardamom. Middlings are predominantly a trickling downward of attachments to primaries.

Underbelly is tilled golden dirt earthiness. Some savory aspects there -- suede, chicken coop & slight fungal lilts. Complex in a robust manner. Boldly delicate with a nifty balance & quite decent depths of nuance. Finish is a fleeting sweetness with lightly spiced additions. A bit of orange pith on the far-end. End? Ends clean. It doesn't burn exceptionally clean, however...

A canoe threatens twice, once out of the gate & again nearing mid-point. Could easily go FUBAR if allowed. Ash is very dry and shows hard clumps of unevenly bunched leaves. Draw hesitates often. Smoke out-put is wobbly, often wispy. Room-note culmination suffers there but is mainly a sweetly inviting aroma melange. Sweet & mellow w/ a pleasant spiciness & excellent orchestration but falls hard all told, on account of construction/combustion.

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

::: very :::