ATL Cigar Co. Magic in Review

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ATL Cigar Co. Magic in Review

WRAPPER: Mexican San Andres
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

BLENDER: Luciano Meirelles

MANUFACTURER:  ACE Prime

FORMAT: "Sublime" Toro (654)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium-full

NOTES:

Chocolate | Wood | Espresso

You take a Cadbury Dairy Milk Fruit & Nut candy bar, melt it down. Then dilute it with 1:1 diet cola:water. Then serve it up in a scorched wooden bowl. But how does it get sipped? Why, thru a leather straw, of course. Black peppercorn, a touch of red pepper flake. Something like soy sauce. It's quite good, although delivered in an undelineated fashion for the most part. To the point of which there is no middling counterpart to the primaries--& vice-versa.

I cannot tell if that makes for all nuance and no complexity, or a series of subtle-muffled complexities sans nuance. That might be a question best answered by future scholars. That said, the cigar does leave nice room for pondering. Come the second-half, purging does alleviate some tarry, tarry night. Linear... it's a tick that. There are some glimpses at novel swirling mineral earthen intricacies. Earthen, that's the underbelly, a dried topsoil that wraps around over-top. The aroma holds a neat dark floral bit which appears too, on the far-out smoky finish. Nice clean ending after that.

Draws well, burns on a slow-paced and even-keeled line. Quite toothy ash clings an inch at a time in a sometimes dry sheath. No flaking. While it draws smoothly, the cap does dissolve-some but cosmetically only. Seams hold-fast. Its veininess does not impede. Smoke out-put is moderate and culminates in an umami-forward room-note. It ticks all the boxes, it's just the boxes are all somewhat close together and maybe blurred. If you like smoky; if you like captivatingly simple, here ya go. Also, if you like espresso, look forward to the final-third when it closes out in a Parisian cafe.

The takeaway is this cigar offers something quite different--although that quite different something operates outside of the blend's harmony. Still and at last, definitely a thing to experience. 

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

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

Other ATL reviews:

ATL Black
ATL Good Trouble
ATL Libertad

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