Kristoff Cigars Shade Grown in Review "A Jar of Potpourri One Room Over"

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Kristoff Shade Grown

WRAPPER: Honduran CT Shade
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Dominican

FORMAT: Robusto (5.5x54) pig-tail cap, unfinished foot
ORIGIN: Charles Fairmorn, Dominican Republic
INTENSITY: Mild-Medium

WEBSITE: kristoff.com

NOTES:

Caramel | Honey | Suede

Whispered complexities. The complexities be all like "hello?" & get this, they're down a well. Depths. Musty depths. Layers of soft nuance. Caramel candies in your grandma's suede pocketbook. Orange blossom honey. Finely ground white pepper kicker. A citrus lilt separates from honey in a musty manner. An un-egregious amount brackish. 

Undertones bulge w/ clotted cream, hazelnut paste. That accumulates on body & into plush-posh finish. Some floral bits, a jar of potpourri one room over. A dusty old-country spice rack. Pale grain under-belly in sunlit earth. A lovely aroma of (again) layered that + a cedar bit, softly. Softly. Subtly complex if you look for it...

... Simple malty mellow sweet creaminess if you don't. That aroma culminates in an inviting room-note, but dispatches unevenly & off a sometimes wobbled burn. A couple of re-touches are mandated. Packed a bit loosely & the shaft does soften on-down, as does cap/shoulder. Fugly ash. A bit of a hectic performance does subtract from a care-free palate.

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

::: very :::