Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust
Sin Compromiso Seleccion No. 5
WRAPPER: San Andres Negro
BINDER: Ecuador Habano
FILLER: Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Toro, soft-press
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium-Full
WEBSITE: www.dunbartoncigars.com
NOTES:
Chocolate | Espresso | Seared meat
A spicy-savoriness and inherent sweetnesses are a tandem core. A singular brigade constantly exploring different advancements, say. Deeply complex explorations of cacao & semi-sweet chocolate w/ varying weights of vanilla attachment. Espresso travels from dark oily bean to pulled shot with sweet crema, then back again, etc. Sinewy umami fleshes out & into a charred slab of meat. A cast-iron seared rib-eye. Worcestershire. Cracked black peppercorns. Cayenne. Sweetness exhibits as molasses, cane sugar, nuances of espresso & even of red spices.
Complex, yes. Deeply nuanced, certainly. Swirling delivery, yup -- though a well-rehearsed one, sans jarring dizziness. Intense intent. Focused and supremely structured by an array of charred woods: hickory, mesquite, cedar, oak. Oak shows a bit of wine cask. Darkly ripely fruitily fleetingly. A cigar that smokes as a chef's meal cooked for a fellow chef. Sating to the fullest & more so thoughtfully/knowledgeably prepared. "Here's what I know." A damn fine fucking smoke. A cigar's cigar.
Burns slowly, evenly, meditatively. A playwright well-schooled in dialog. Bantering w/ itself yet driving home its purpose. Ash grows well. Draw is even-keeled. Smoke out-put is bigly, yielding an aroma of standing over a steak-filled grill next to an espresso machine. Leathery. & for all this fancy drivel of a highfalutin nature -- for all the robust notes, it's somehow smooth. Clean. Crisp, even. Oh and I also taste fennel.
FINAL GRADE: A
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
::: very :::