Bocock Brothers Cigars World Traveler Habano (Robusto) in Review

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Bocock Brothers Cigars 

World Traveler Habano

WRAPPER: Honduran
BINDER: Sumatran
FILLER: Honduran, Nicaraguan

BLENDER: Raydel Lezcano
MANUFACTURER: San Judas Tadeo

FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: Honduras
INTENSITY: Medium/Med. full

NOTES:

Mulling spice | Black/red pepper | Caramel

Still waters run deep. Yup. A quite dark & sedate Habano offering, this. There is the customary pepper-spice display but enveloped in a nigh abyss of roasty earthiness. Mulling spice and black/red pepper. Caramel & milk chocolate sweetness huddle together w/ in the greater huddle. Cozy. Delineation is barely moderate, but existent, via buttery cedar bracing spices. Sugar cookie. Hefty.

Excellently balanced and ::: very ::: densely-subtly nuanced. Meditatively complex. A wise sage who spent previous years of his youth as a playboy. A drop of lemon added at the mid-point cleans well, lets some sunshine down on the earth. Barnyard becomes chicken coop in a sunny & nifty-cleansing transition. Not a huge amount of flavors but quite a bit of flavor. The quirks of a humorist, not a comedian.

The roll does soften-some via progression, but evenly-so & not in a way which hampers draw. Seams hold, as do cap/shoulder assemblages. Draws fine, as alluded to, does get a half-tick dampish in 3/3. The burn itself is top-notch and its aroma is much ditto, with a savory leather add-on to top-notes. A cigar that exhibits its components in their best possible ways. Here, terroir talks, bullshit walks. 

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

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

::: very :::