Casa Robles Cigars A Knight's Tale in Review

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Casa Robles Cigars A Knight's Tale in Review

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

FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: Puerto Rican
INTENSITY: Medium/Medium-full

WEBSITE: casa-robles-cigars.company.site

NOTES:

Cedar | Dark chocolate | Grains

Cohesive roasty-toasty buttery cedar & dark chocolate inter-play. Smoothly balanced particularly in bitter-sweet savory (leathery-oily) aspects. A bit of a narrow profile, but softly delineated enough to dissect. Structured by that cedar, which when standing alone gets sweet-spice attachments. Dark grains. Butterscotch. French roast coffee & molasses notes flow in. Silky.

Greater than the sum of its cushy parts.Synergy. All are delivered as all -- meaning there are no front/mid/back palate notes, particularly. Remains lively 'nuff, however. Black pepper. Neither spectacular nor rare insofar as menu but well-handled. Finish is sweet w/ a tick of salted minerality. Pleasant & attainable. Earthy af core.

Some intriguing shadow-work in its supple depths. Performance-wise, it draws easily & burns straight (although a tick stop&start in pacing). Holds its form admirably-so. Smoke out-put is less than moderate, thus not allowing for a terrific amt of aroma; what's there is sweetdarksavory. Burns quite slow, coolly sedate. Nice.

TASTE: B
DRAW: B+
BURN: B
BUILD: B+

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

A tick-bit about Casa Robles (et al). This brand, and others of its kind, can be seen as representative(s) of a small and easily romanticized cigar world take on wine’s Garagistes. This moniker is originally in reference to Bordeaux-based winemakers who crafted "garage wines" in oft solo always indie revolutionary-reaction to the more traditional styles of those offerings.

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