Thursday, March 4, 2021

Sy Cigars Barber Pole Gordo in Review

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Sy Cigars Barber Pole Gordo in Review

WRAPPER: Connecticut Shade/Mexican San Andres
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Dominican, Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Gordo
ORIGIN: Dominican Republic
INTENSITY: Mild-medium/Medium

WEBSITE: sycigars.com

NOTES:
Milk chocolate | Maltiness | Lemon 

Egg Cream. Whoppers. Imbalanced Lemonheads. Fun! -- ultimately dull. Novelties wear-off[borders|collapse], tedium. Imbalance-grows. Spices are hidden-by sourness, Cheerios dust ::: A depressed man in an Aloha shirt.

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 thought. So much is made about Barber Pole cigars offering-up greater complexities. OK, a couple thoughts. Firstly, perhaps if this format is/was ||| in terms of strip(p)ing. However, we're talking ///* in usual BPs. Wrap that around a cylinder & you are always tasting both at once. Muffled cacophony. 

Secondly, & in re to tasting both at once. Many a portfolio is made by placing different wrappers over the exact same guts (binder & filler). To that end, one can see a BP as pairing a cigar with another cigar. I'm simply not as big a fan of pairing as others seem to be. Why? Because one thing inevitably detracts from the other.

*\\\ depending on your POV.

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