Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Illusione Cigars ECCJ Churchill in Review "Tantalizing in its Juxtaposition"

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Illusione Cigars 
ECCJ 20th Churchill

WRAPPER: Nicaraguan Corojo 99
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan Criollo 98 & Corojo 99

FORMAT: Churchill (6.5 x 48)
ORIGIN: TABSA, Nicaragua
STRENGTH: Medium

WEBSITE: www.illusionecigars.com

NOTES:
White ginger | White pepper | Cream

Cream by the dollops. Luxuriant & sultry in a blonde manner. Marilyn Monroe singing to JFK. Light acting darkly. Innocence acting seductively. Tantalizing in its juxtaposition. It's all that fluffy creaminess enhanced and curbed by a brushed suede. Ginger is mid-palate and has its own bulging nethers of golden hay & sweet spices. Cassia buds, cardamom. Understatedly complex but very much so.

Undertones of sweet-lilted bright but calm sunlit earth. Loose, not tamped. Cocoa butter, softwoods... a pine, a buttery cedar. Dandelion tea. Sunbutter. A baked poultry savoriness drips its juices into a Spring barnyard after a slight sunshower. Retrohaling (mandated here) drives up the white pepper flake to a haughty-height'd but controlled peppercorn of the same complexion. Drops milk chocolate to the palate. Deep well-lit nuances. An interesting cafe. Caramel latte.

Big smoke out-put, creamy as the mouthfeel, w/ less zing. Sweetness with a slight olfactory orange blossom honey addition. Some clean malt. Wildflowers in a sweetgrass meadow just on the other side of the barnyard fencing. Draw is silky-smooth. Ash builds in a long tight stack of dimes. Barrel is a bit lumpy, a tick here/there. No hard/soft spots. Firm-ish roll holds gate-to-wire. Cap caps thru-out. A luscious easy smoke which goes as deep as you want to take it.

TASTE: A
DRAW: A-
BURN: A-
BUILD: A

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

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