JC Newman Cigar Co Perla del Mar Maduro (2020) in Review
WRAPPER: Connecticut Broadleaf
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Double Toro (660) soft "Tampa-style" press
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium
WEBSITE: jcnewman.com
NOTES:
Potting-soil | Leather | Black pepper (softly)
Growing up in Brooklyn, there was a bowling alley, Shell Lanes, that had a hot drink vending machine. It served coffee, hot cocoa, & chicken broth. I still remember the taste of that vending machine chicken broth, circa 1988. I do not taste it in this cigar, but wouldn't that be something?
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
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Only slightly more brawny than its predecessor, & no more delineated. Balanced rather linearly, smoothly-so. Soft leather, toasted nut-butter. Finely-ground black pepper, slightly. Anise, heavy floral hints-bits. Bulging-bleeding potting-soil earthen core. Some in-outing semi-sweet chocolate, vanilla-lilt, attempts. French-press coffee, French-roasted, flows into profile's mids, steers (weakly) there-out, at the second-third.
Feels unwieldy in the hand. Cap/shoulder soften, losing some-much form; draw remains calmly unimpeded. Burn-line wonks-oft. Ash flakes. Smoke out-put errs toward helter-skelter, provides somewhat muted-bland rich-earth aromas. Neither olfactory nor palate provides character. Tedium, sans burn tinkerings. My dad nursing our jalopy up the Catskills, sans the sights.
DRAW: B+
BURN: B
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: B
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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