Brun del Re Cigars Gold Robusto in Review

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Brun del Re Cigars Gold Robusto 

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian
BINDER: Indonesian
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Costa Rican

FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: Costa Rica
INTENSITY: Medium

WEBSITE: brundelrecigars.com

NOTES:
Black pepper | Milk chocolate | Honey malt

Cheesed up & kicky out of the gate w/ a tilted black pepper focus. Smooths-out by end of 1/3. Spice falls back, milk chocolate entrenches, strengthens, more-so than amplifies. Honey malt sweetens, sticks & stays on thru the finish but not cloyingly-so. Roasted grains. A dairy sort of heft to the palate. Better balance. Wildflower honey. Toasted oak bracings.

Not complex, per se, until it is & then it is. Then nicely-nuanced as well, in its bright-not-glaring depths. White pepper and cardamom flow in at the 2/3, in an evolution of spice. Slight white ginger, calmly. Quite transitional, and each time for improvement's sake. Dairy heft is added to with thick-soft suede. Pepper lingers to singe on the retro-hale, lowers to tastebuds in a floral sweetness.

Light hiccups occuring along the char-line are mainly self-correcting. Burn wobbles mildly-not-wildly. Ash grows well & pale. Muted aroma. Draws great w/ my preferred resistance, which is slight+. Seems hold to their pre-light not-quite tightness. Some lumps along the shaft impedes eye not hand. Cap & shoulder stay classy. Classy works too, in describing the experience, casually-so.

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

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

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