Pura Soul
Honduran
WRAPPER: Honduran
BINDER: Honduran
FILLER: Honduran
FORMAT: Toro
ORIGIN: Honduras
INTENSITY: Medium
WEBSITE: www.purasoulcigars.com
The reasoning behind this redux is a switch from Robusto (box-press) to Toro. The original review can be read at: https://bit.ly/3cVryQq This 2d will not reference that 1t. You should read it anyway. It is superbly written.
NOTES:
Earth | Lemon cream | Cashew
Earthen, Totes McGoats. Richly vacant... imagine aerated chocolate feels. All notes are enveloped in the nooks & crannies of said earthiness. The citrusy creaminess, the blanched cashews. Further down into middlings, white peppercorn coarsely ground. Then that aerated chocolate hits flavors, a fungal lilt, & dandelion. In that particular order. Cocoa butter flows then ebbs in the 2/3.
Underbelly is trail dirt with an angel food cake hint. A bit of damp if not dank clumped clay. Simple. Pleasant, albeit a bit coarse thru the nose... sans added flavor benefit. Balanced in a one-note fashion via even-keeled aspects of such. Complex in that way, say. Lacking in nuance, more just a rigid core dipped in something softer. Sits somewhat dryly on the palate.
Burn wobbles slightly thru-out, is hiccup-jagged at first -- not to the point of mandated retouches. Smokes a bit quickly. Draws well 'nuff, perhaps a tick hollow once or twice. Ash builds to decent lengths. Roll softens a bit. A smokeable thing in the same way as Bud Light is drinkable. Very much a cigar w/ a mortgage, 2.5 kids, & a Kiss the Cook apron for grilling in the yard. A yard it mows twice a week.
FINAL GRADE: B
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
FINAL GRADE: B
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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