Bocock Brothers Cigars
World Traveler Habano
WRAPPER: Honduran
BINDER: Sumatran
FILLER: Honduran, Nicaraguan
BLENDER: Raydel Lezcano
MANUFACTURER: San Judas Tadeo
FORMAT: Churchill
ORIGIN: Honduras
INTENSITY: Medium
NOTES:
Citrus | Bright earth | Exotic spices
Tangy but tethered calmly. Citrus via orange peel notes dug into to fairly brightly-lit trail dirt. Clay & terra cotta w/ a slight tho lush vegetal "hello." Cereal grains collect under yellowish saffron-led spices. Milk chocolate stirred into weak coffee & cream begins late in the front-end, grows quickly to a primary. This complements and controls the tangy up-tops. Lots of white peppercorns, particularly via the olfactory. Butter happens at the mellowing progression.
Balanced but on a sour-sweet bias and w/ less spice per se than expected. Sweet and sour sauce more-so than spice-rack particularly in the 2/3 & onward as table sugar enters the mix. Fairly and subtly complex. Subtle as in a loud whisper or fast walk--given the somewhat tart leanings. Exotic, in a way. A foreign cuisine's comfort food. It takes till near mid-point, but the smoke does heft-up some, with help from a suede entry. Nicely nuanced. Calm but unboring. Approachable not dull. The aroma is a freshly-cleaned gentleman's study. Light shines in through an open bay window.
The draw becomes perfect, after a slight open onset. Draw-line also needs some settling-in, but is quickly even and thin. Ash splits in the 1/3 but never again. Displays as a stack of dimes mainly covered in thin-pale sheathing. A bit of toothiness shows on the burnt remains. Nice smoke out-put and decent coating of lips and cheeks off of a smooth texture. Does at times grip the throat thinly. The room-note is its lingering aroma, more sweetly culminated. A 1/2" section of seam does loosen but smokes thru fine.
TASTE: B+
DRAW: A-
BURN: A-
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
TASTE: B+
DRAW: A-
BURN: A-
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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