Thursday, October 14, 2021

Ventura Cigar Co. Case Study CS/01 in Review

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Ventura Cigar Co. Case Study CS/01 in Review 

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Habano
BINDER: Semilla 192
FILLER: Undisclosed

FORMAT: Churchill (7.25x50)
ORIGIN: Occidental Cigar Factory, Dominican Republic
INTENSITY: Mild-medium/Medium

NOTES:
Citrus | Asian spices | Clay

Lots of orangey-citrus with a back-end of coconut. A low-calorie vanilla creaminess. A watered-down sweet and sour sauce? There ain't no duck in duck sauce, and there's nothing 'fowl' in regards to this cigar, per se. It just kinda meanders along on a narrow dirt trail. Smooth suede enters upon warming-some. White pepper is seen on the buttery retro-hale. Quite mineral-laced. Pleasant, save for a nagging too-sour bit in the high middling. 

Rest of middlings? Clay, an in&out blonde-roasted coffee bean, white chocolate hints. Nothing of that really grabs hold, though. Sneakily more complex than seen on first blush--which means a tick more than nil. Nice fluffy sun-lit nuances but also a hair sour there. Tilted a hair sour everywhere. Imbalanced then. Still, predominantly nice. You know that lovely first day of spring? This smokes like the day before. Chilly and briskly. A nipply affair.

Draws well enough. Burns on a mainly even but rather wide line. Ash is dry, unevenly aerated, and at times flaky. Sedate smoke off the foot and -moderate to the smoke-hole. A very pleasant aroma but the room-note hits the sour bits heavily. The wrapper leaf is ::: very ::: veiny but the assemblage holds well & coolly. The narrow dirt trail ends at a beach. Ocean breeze. Salty air, and all. From there, maybe you step on a jagged seashell, maybe you don't.

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

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