Los Tejanos by OSOK x Rojas Cigars in Review

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Los Tejanos by OSOK x Rojas Cigars in Review

WRAPPER: Mexican San Andres
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Toro
ORIGIN: Tabacalera Flor de San Luis, Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium-Full

NOTES:

NOLA Coffee* | Semi-sweet chocolate | Hickory

Offers an over-all sensation of adding wet leaves to a campfire late at (crisp) night. The back-end is a long-legged mash bill. Hefty smoke texture, but a bit jagged-rough around its edges in both body & flavor. Black peppercorn and muted chili powder offer a nice spice-stiffness. Semi-sweet chocolate & N'awlins chicory coffee round out the primaries. Straight-forward, toasted well.

There's a minerality--a flintiness, on the aroma. In the 2/3 this finds its way to the mid-palate & dryly-so. Graphite. Nuances are deeply entrenched in a simple compact heap left out in the sun. Forest floor--after the treeline has been clear-cut. Vaguely fungal. I once dated a vaguely fun gal. Several times. An uncomplex smoke w/ mature, inherent sweetness, darkly-so. 

Burns quickly but evenly. Ash grows on a lilt but makes a flaky inch. Draw wobbles loosely. The smoke out-put is quite nice, smells of a leather I'd like to taste more of. Pack softens-some about a 1/2" ahead of a razor-thin char. Burn-line is imperfectly even. Hickory saunters in for a neater delineation in the second-half. Still, a simple, almost familiar profile. A profile more frame than painting, more beam than building.

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

*"New Orleans coffee (a.k.a. “Cafe Noir”) has a distinctive chocolate-caramel flavor, intensely dark color, thick consistency, and lower-than-usual caffeine content thanks to its secret ingredient, chicory. Chicory is a coffee-like substance made from the dried, roasted roots of a bitter perennial herb." - The Spruce Eats

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