Friday, October 30, 2020

O.M. Cigars Essential Blend No. 4 in Review "Echoing thru Hills & Dales"

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O.M. Cigars 
Essential Blend No. 4

WRAPPER: Mexican San Andres
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Nicaraguan, USA (PA), Dominican

FORMAT: Robusto box-press
ORIGIN: Dominican
INTENSITY: Medium-Full

WEBSITE: www.omcigars.com

NOTES:
Spices | Savory earth | Cocoa

Focused then delightfully fuzzy. Brawny then whispered. Spices are dark and molasses-sweetened. Smoked paprika, cumin. Red pepper flake, cayenne. Black peppercorn. Earthen notes are heavily toasted and heavily weighty; drip with a Worcestershire come-on. Cocoa is a powdered baking thing, tamped densely into a measuring cup. Excellent delineation up-top.

Underneath, it loosens to introduce complexities twixt. Particularly in the cocoa/earth here those sprinkle onto a midsection of fennel, scorched cedar, cola. Underbelly wraps the profile in earthiness... inkily & in mature inherent sweet spice. Comfy & somber, if not melancholy. A distant driving drumming echoing thru hills & dales. Complex but more-so layered in leathery nuance.

Nicely balanced & well-delivered. Draw is exceptionally smooth. Burns on a slow mainly even line requiring no re-touch. Rolled and stays firm, although it does round a tick ahead of char. Quite a flat press with an experience to match; a wide panoramic landscape with a low-hanging sky. Forboding in a way, the calm before a storm which passes safely by. 

TASTE: B+
DRAW: A
BURN: A-
BUILD: B+

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

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