Friday, July 10, 2020

Principle Cigars Aviator Series Vainqueur in Review "Cool Hand Luke's Lucille"

“Have you Kaplowitz’d to-day?”

Principle Cigars
Aviator Series Vainqueur

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Corojo
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Dominican, Nicaragua, USA

FORMAT: Vainqueur (6.5x56)
ORIGIN: Kelner Boutique Factory, Dominican Republic
INTENSITY: Mild

WEBSITE: www.principlecigars.com

NOTES:
Granny Smith apple | Pinewood | Cashew butter

Tart in a quite pleasing way. Invigorating, clean. Crisp. A neat bit creamy balance via cashew butter, softly salted. Each delineated from the other by a lively pinewood w/ an inherent & whimsical sweetness. A spring day of a smoke. Undertones of sunflowers & sweet sunlit grass, pine nuts, a dry Reisling. Delicately delivered, purposefully structured on an underbelly of golden dirt after a sunshower. 

Well-rounded, balanced rather admirably albeit lacking-some in sticking to the ribs savoriness. Atho the intent here seems easy-breezy more that gluttonous. A light snack while swinging in a hammock. "Peel me a grape." (Mae West.) Keenly complex & nuanced well particularly given its crispness. A big, mild stick almost always flirts w/ boredom... almost. Not here. The aroma is a happy sweet tartness; thru the nose, a lemony white pepper ground smoothly can be felt.

Burns at a moderate & even pacing on a dead-even char-line. Ash grows well, but won't win any contests there, alas. Quite stoically built gate-to-wire. Superb draw. A pretty smoke, beautiful really. Look at it there, in its floral-patterned sundress. Getting up from the hammock here & there to drive the boys crazy as they toil away in the sun. [Cool Hand Luke's Lucille.]

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

::: very :::