Isla del Sol Maduro in Review

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Drew Estate Isla del Sol Maduro in Review

WRAPPER: Nicaragua
BINDER: Nicaragua
FILLER: Nicaragua

This is a sweet-tip coffee-infused cigar.

FORMAT: Churchill (750)
ORIGIN: La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate, Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Light-medium/Medium

NOTES:

Hot chocolate | Chicory | Red spices

A greater bit of chocolate and chicory (front & back) than coffee in either spot. Some red spices trail further behind than even the vaguely scorched behind. Cloying sweetness via a never fully dissipating sugar-tip. Also tho, a watery almost effervescent delivery at times. Loosely acai berry. More tightly Anisette. I really don't see the coffee. Unless they're mimicking a diabetic shock-inducing latte.

O, irony of ironies--this would pair terribly with coffee. I'm sure it's the perfect smoke for an occasion I've yet to experience. This thing isn't about balance, or complexity, or nuance. It's meant to be a sweet nothing whispered in your smoke-hole. I suppose it accomplishes that. Was it Bob Costa who said race walking was like seeing who could whisper the loudest?

Burns on a hot wobble and comes/stays astonishingly under-packed. Just about the softest cigar I recall smoking. However, the draw is somehow still smooth and the seams/cap hold admirably well. Ash grows nice for what I believe to be a sandwich filler. Room-note is taste and the imagery there is hot cocoa in a wood-paneled ski lodge... the budget version, if such a thing exists.

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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