Friday, November 6, 2020

Dunbarton T&T Cigars Mi Querida Triqui Traca No. 552 in Review "Powerful Dealings"

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Dunbarton T&T Cigars 
Mi Querida Triqui Traca No. 552

WRAPPER: Connecticut Broadleaf
BINDER: Nicaraguan 
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Dominican

FORMAT: Robusto (552)
ORIGIN: Nicaraguan American Cigar S.A. (NACSA)
INTENSITY: Full

WEBSITE: www.dunbartoncigars.com

NOTES:
Hickory | Red spices | Coffee

Wood. Hickory w/ a haunting thereafter seasoned cedar. Takes spices a draw or two to develop, then smoked paprika, cumin, cinnamon nethers. Cayenne like a mofo via progression. A sweetness balances well; a thin molasses, cola thing. Coffee structures dryly, full city roasted beans. Focused near piercingly-so. Heighty but well-weighted, anchored. 

Anchored in earth, a darkly roasted umami-triggering top-soil. Teriyaki beef jerky, particularly on the bittersweet finish. Big legs. A salted minerality lives there. Sneaky complex for a dead-ahead offering. Deeply nuanced & cleanly-so. A robust yet crisp profile. Big notes, no cloying bits. A refined rustic quality. Although just rustic to the eye. Veiny w/ a solo pock-mark. Cap scans a bit short, askew. 

None of that hampers performance. Excellent smooth draw w/ a slight-nice resistance. Rolled firm, stays firm. Ash builds in a dense sheath. Big smoke out-put yields a dried red fruit aroma, eventually finding the palate. Leather, too. Burn-line itself is even-steven. A no-nonsense blend, trading some charisma for the sake of precision; which is an important thing in powerful dealings.