Thursday, November 18, 2021

Mombacho Cigars Liga Maestro in Review

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Mombacho Cigars Liga Maestro in Review

WRAPPER: Nicaraguan
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: "Gordo" Robusto 554
ORIGIN: Casa Favilli, Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium-full/Full

NOTES:
Dark Chocolate | Black pepper | Toasted (spiced) cream

A resolute blend. No nonsense. Grainy black & white footage of a barnstorming heavyweight from days of yore. Menacing, then? Maybe not, but I wouldn't poke it. Heavy rich dark chocolate. Brawny black pepper by the loaded-gloves full. A bolstering, somewhat cushioning, and well-rounding cream with its own red spice melange. Strange how a savory smoked meatiness works the midsection--and how I'm also unsure it's there at times.

... a fighter who steals a round by finishing in a flurry? Lots of grains in the gut. Heavily-toasted barley & buckwheat. How the cream fills-up the primaries, espresso does the secondaries. This whole thing advances, swarms, using a shift that would make Marciano himself quite proud. Never off-balance and each punch is heavy. An interesting way to build moderate-plus nuance but insofar as complexities--a tick lacking. Although floating like a butterfly ain't this thing's (speed) bag. 

Mechanics are germane to the entirety of my pugilistic analogies. The burn is slow, plodding, even-lined, and paced. Ash grows in darkish oily inches. Draws smooth and gives plenty of smoke. Sating AF. Packing, seams, cap, all hold stoically. Nothing about this thing tires, although it does tire me some, in an admirable way--it just keeps coming... including into a long bittersweet finish. And even after it's gone, that finish wafts about as aroma then room-note, all heavy and not at all fucking around. 

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

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

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