Dunbarton T&T
Red Meat Lovers Club
WRAPPER: USA Connecticut Broadleaf
BINDER: Mexican San Andres Oscuro
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Pennsylvanian
FORMAT: Toro Grande (656) pig-tail cap
ORIGIN: Nicaraguan American Cigars, S.A. (NACSA)
INTENSITY: Medium-Full
WEBSITE: www.dunbartoncigars.com
NOTES:
Dark chocolate | Black peppercorn | Fruity/floral
There's a lot of cigar packed into this cigar. Good thing I like cigars. Blended to smoke w/ a steak; sweet 'nuff to enjoy as dessert. Rich but a tick of gruffness scrubs away some heaviness. Staves off cloying bits? We may never know. We do know it is sufficient of weight and smooths via progression. Dark chocolate is a rich bar of the stuff, silky. Black peppercorn braces & is in turn braced by toasted cedar wrapped in leather. Excellent structure.
Fruity floral bits are interesting & a tick of a surprise, really. Pleasantly. Fruity stuff is wild strawberries YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO and some lesser definable berry syrups. Floral stuff is of a tropical variety, dried. Potpourri? These bits add some neat width/depth, make for a deft hand closing into a ham fist. Undertones are enveloping dark earth, dense but not smotheringly-so. Aspects of manure, compost, topsoil.
Finish is verry-berry. Chocolate & peppery too, & off a moderate length. Which is shorter than expected. A blend that keeps you on your toes as you sit in front of a high cholesterol full plate. Aroma is leather fruity/floral & quite lovely. A bit savory. Enticing. Burns as if German-engineered. Dead-even char. Big fat ash (see: full plate, supplant 2nd H w/ S for LOL yw). Superb draw. Roll stays firm, seams stay tight, cap/shoulder too. Blah blah blah.
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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