ATL Cigar Co. Libertad in Review
WRAPPER: Nicaraguan Corojo
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: TABSA Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium
NOTES:
Cedar | Cocoa butter | Lemon meringue
Coconut (from the 2/3 onward. A bit of a Mounds candy bar vibe, but milk not dark chocolate. Prior to that and thru-out, a butter cedar both braces and steers. Cushy swirlings therein of sweet exotic spice. Cocoa butter evolves its own nougat attachment. Lemon meringue is well-toasty. Underbelly is a bit of golden hay, chicken coop, and kaolin. A separate white pepper is there, extending alongside the sweet spices into a rather lengthy finish. Lots of sweet pale savoriness lingers on the cheeks.
Well-guided and nicely balanced. Smoothly complex with wide-curved transitions that let you keep your eyes on the road. Comings & goings of pale wildflowers and orange blossom honey. A graham cracker pie crust happens near the 3/3. Stays clean on the palate and sweet in the room-note. Aromas are almost S'mores-like, gently. Some of that cedar in a more rigid manner. Retro-hales opens-up the spice rack to show nutmeg and clove. Rather autumnal, really. A flake or two of black pepper. Cider flirts but only half-happens.
Performance-wise, the draw snugs a tick toward puff's end. That's fine. Burn-line requires zero touch-ups but is a bit ragged in spots along a fairly wide mascara-line. Seams hold. Shoulder pulls down a half-bit, nothing egregious. Excellent active smoke out-put. Passively, it slows quickly. Overall, it smokes at a slow rate of speed, building decent lengths of kinda ugly ash. All told a pleasant cigar that strikes me as a smart knuckle-baller, not a stud with high-heat. It's calmly entertaining, cerebral; if you take care to follow closely.
TASTE: A-
DRAW: B+
BURN: B+
BUILD: A-
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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