Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Casa Robles Cigars Navegante in Review

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Casa Robles Cigars Navegante in Review

WRAPPER: San Andres Maduro
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Dominican, Puerto Rican

BLENDER: Gabriel Robles
MANUFACTURER: Casa Robles

FORMAT: Torpedo (550)
ORIGIN: Puerto Rico
INTENSITY: Medium-full

WEBSITE: casa-robles-cigars.company.site

NOTES:
Black pepper | Molasses | Beef bouillon

Lots of black pepper. Not in a pepper-forward way, though. Instead, an accidental superfluous dash in a dish manner. An evolving leather savoriness eases it somewhat. Too much pepper in your mashed taters? Get more un-peppered mashed taters, fold in. Hide-y, meaty, umami--dryly. A beef bouillon cube. Molasses sweetens and spins-off brown sugar influences. The back-end is flush w/ barnyard and the shadows of primaries. Smoky.

Flirts with a tick of tar in a manner I find appealing. In the 2/3 a salted dark chocolate floods in and almost joins the front-end but is separated by a plank of hard seasoned wood. Excellent structure, then. Earth, dark & rich, fills all corners. Not super complex, but unboring and well-nuanced. Decent depths, for sure. Moderate and even-keeled smoke out-put offers up a sweet-spiced aroma & culminating room-note. That's the finish, too--w/ a hint of coffee & cola.

Dense. Draws are at times a tick hesitant, nothing terrible. Ash stacks almost black dimes to beat the band. Pretty sure I could grow it the length of the thing. Impressive. Less impressive is a constant-slight jaggedness to the char-line, altho a retouch is never mandated. Pace is slow but never tedious... a shorter vitola works here. A simple spicy treat w/ savory mid-palate and sweet ending. An after-dinner smoke that pairs well w/ an involving book.

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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