Tuesday, October 5, 2021

O.M. Cigars Essential Blend No. 6 in Review

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O.M. Cigars Essential Blend No. 6 in Review

WRAPPER: Mexican San Andres
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Dominican, Nicaraguan, Colombian

FORMAT: Toro [box-pressed]
ORIGIN: Dominican
INTENSITY: Medium-full

NOTES:
Hickory | Chicory | Pecan

Spicy feels more-so than tastes. Somewhat puckering. Sleek. Benign strong-arm steerings. Quite the hickory showcase, spiced in a hot cider manner. Excellently delineated on account of that forward wood. There's also a chicory coffee with the former way on-out in-front of the latter. A bit stiff, a tick bit more elegant. Stuffy, in a perhaps overly formal manner. The meat on its bones is lean muscle. A pilates class low-calorie creaminess. Transitional not frenetic. Nuanced, not burying. White & black peppercorn.

There are edges but not aggressively-so. Svelte-stealth. Brisk. Honeysuckle lightens the mood some, swirling in the midsection. Some dark fruits, non-descript and dried/drying. That puckering--it becomes an obvious lemon candy come the 2/3d. As if we needed more spryness. Picture a lovely piano, a classic neat upright, freshly over-polished w/ lemon pledge. If you touch it, a brusk butler forcefully sprays/wipes. No eye contact. EXCUSE ME, SIR &/or MADAM. he says. You then sit up straight and do not touch the piano again.

The calm hand of a classic experience can be at times off-putting or at least not a thing to be comfortable around. This is not comfort food, an easy chair, nor is it even easy. But it is worth it. Performance-wise, there is no challenge. An easy draw, an almost perfect burn-line. A toothy, clingy sheath of ash. Cosmetically, the press does round-some. Big smoke out-put results in spiced-leathery room-note after a complex aroma on par with a complex palate. Applebutter and applewood begin as a late-coming sniff, then taste. 

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

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

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