Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Diesel Cigars Sunday Gravy San Marzano in Review

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Diesel Cigars Sunday Gravy San Marzano in Review

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

BLENDER: Abdel J Fernandez, Justin Andrews
MANUFACTURER: AJ Fernandez

FORMAT: Toro
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium

NOTES:
Milk chocolate | Spice | Nuts/wood

An aptly named offering that'd be quite at home in a rather upscale buffet. Creamy and comforting with much to stave off blandness. Good eats, in a smokeable form. Dense but not brick-ish and has fantastic depth of nuance. Well-rounded & balanced. Notes of milk chocolate candy bar envelopment. Gentle spiciness of white pepper flakes, nutmeg, clove. Braced goodly-so by a nutty woodsiness I read as pecan shell. Fleshier nuts are in there as is a kindly-scorched pinewood w/ buttery cedar elements.

Beefy in its middling with an added savoriness of pale toasted grains. A neat-O inherent sweetness. A consistent yet un-boring profile. Unerring. A dash of black & red pepper. Cinnamon hints. At the half, that cedar spins out on its own, evolving into a driving feature w/ its own cocoa butter accompaniment. Finishes long and full on the palate. Sating savory sweetness. A bit of ginger. Under-belly is where vegetation grows towards the back of a sandy beach. Sunny but not glaring. Moderately complex.

Cruise-control performance. Excellently paced burn, on a dead-even char. Thin mascara line. Smooth draws. Staunch of build--no softening whatsoever. Seams and cap assemblage are tight gate-to-wire. Smoke out-put is lush & plush, settling into a thick room-note of sweetness w/ slight pleasant spicy kick and tick of umami. Leathery, and in the second-half that supple leather floods the palate. Sumptuous. I at long last found a Diesel I like... a lot. My one peeve is that it doesn't dazzle, but I also believe it doesn't try.

TASTE: A-
DRAW: A
BURN: A-
BUILD: A

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

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