Ventura Cigar Co. Psyko Seven Connecticut in Review

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Ventura Cigar Co. Psyko Seven Connecticut in Review

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Connecticut
BINDER: Dominican San Vicente
FILLER: Multiple country blend

FORMAT: Robusto (5.5x50)
ORIGIN: Occidental Cigar Factory, Dominican Republic
INTENSITY: Mild-medium/Medium

NOTES:

Citrus | Suede | Oak

I dunno. Tangy and a bit prickly? A candied lemon wedge rolled around in a sandbox? Oak and suede. Salted minerality on the back-end. A separate & undiluted Tang powder. A layer of bright earthiness twixt, which also forms the under-belly. Middlings are in&outs of a honeydew glimpse, light-roasted weak-brewed coffee. Pepper-spices are there in the midsection, erratically offering ginger, clove, and white peppercorn.

I do have a fondness for Ventura. I also have a similar spot in my heart for Ring of Honor Wrestling, an organization I hear is going tits up. Back to the cigar at hand, however... a pretty uneventful Connecticut with some troublesome aspects of being on-tilt toward sour and a bit gruffly-so. It smokes as if it didn't come-together without effort and perhaps tribulation. Herky-jerky. In a profile such as this, all hiccups are into a microphone.

Performance-wise, the thing likes to be puffed, anything near a lull will cause it to threaten petering-out. Excellent smoke out-put tho, if you stay engaged. A bit of a drama queen, maybe. Prone to theatrics. Ash stacks anywhere from not at all to ladder-rungs of a not quite near-inch.Burn-line wobbles, self-corrects. It's a thin mascara, but also a tick jagged. Draws smooth and fine. The eyes it wants on it develop a squint, on account of the profile's brightness.

TASTE: B
DRAW: B+
BURN: B
BUILD: B+

FINAL GRADE: B
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