Don Diego Robusto Cigar in Review

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Don Diego Robusto Cigar in Review

WRAPPER: Connecticut Shade
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Dominican, Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Robusto (552)
ORIGIN: Dominican Republic
INTENSITY: Mild

NOTES:

Lemon | Cream | Suede

A truly mild smoke. Not mild-medium, not even mild/mild-medium. MILD. No finish. A mere hint of sweetly citrus body. Whispery but not wispy per se. Subtly distant lemon squeezed into clotted cream. Suede rounding-outs, in the palest of savorinesses. A touch of pale honey. A kiss of nougat. An allusion of yellow & white wildflowers. Golden hay underbelly with just a suggestion of sandy earthiness. Retro-hale heavily and you'll get a single flake of white pepper, every-other time.

There are complexities if you look hard enough; quiet shifts between sweet & sour notes. Not quite 'shifty' enough to be transitional--altho out-of-the-gate, I was quite fearful it'd sour unpleasantly until it steered clear. Nuanced but the layers seem all to peel-off together. Decent structure but its bracings are un-checked by well-behaved notes. Superbly balanced. In a blend this mild, any transgressions would roar--& they do not here. To put it lovely, there is no (say) Ligero to hide edges... there are no loose-fitting black clothes to hide fat rolls.

Quite solidly-rolled. Tight seams & cap/shoulder assemblage. Burns a tick-quick but mainly evenly. A single re-touch at the half fixes a nagging wave and a bit of ugly puckering. Moderate+ smoke out-put yields virtually no room-note. A slight lemony floral aroma. Ash builds to a stoic inch of dime-y sheathing. No hard-soft spots. Stays ::: very ::: cool. An early summer morning thing. A white wine spritzer of a thing. Smoke it then, with that, whilst under a parasol. 

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

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

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