WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade
BINDER: Mexican San Andres
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Dominican, USA
FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium
NOTES:
Exotic spices | Cream | Floral/Citrus
Loaded with creamy goodnesses. Braced by a buttery cedar and kept honest by a lightly sweetened spice that's white pepper led. Creaminess has a tick of hay at its core. Spices are cardamom and swaddled white cinnamon. Cafe au lait is on the back end into a rather lengthy finish, sitting there a bit a-tingle. Floral wildflower and chamomile aspects flit about, as does a sweet not candied citrus ebb and flow. Pignoles.
Lots of moving pieces but all enter and evolve slowly, folded into the creaminess of it all. At around the half, a buttery savory suede begins to surround the profile. This serves to show some more earthen look-sees, loads of rich sunlit earth with some clay additions. Well-balanced, even-keeled, and quite plush. Calm. Maybe feels a tick like running on the beach. Perhaps a bit bogged down but easy on the joints, see.
Performance-wise, perhaps a slightly sluggish and damp draw helps form the jogging in sand vibe. Ash grows quite excellently. Smoke out-put is big to the eyes, smaller though kindly sweet-spiced to the nose. Burn-line remains even but shy of dead-so. No retouches are mandated whatsoever. I hear sea gulls. A slight crack happens in the top-leaf between the second and final thirds but smokes through fine.
TASTE: A-
DRAW: B+
BURN: B+
BUILD: B
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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