WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Sumatra
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Dominican
FORMAT: Robusto
ORIGIN: Honduras (HATSA)
INTENSITY: Med. Full/Full
NOTES:
Leathery earth | Dark chocolate | Coffee
Big. Rich and smooth. Much more an overall feel, than laser-focused taste. Good look-sees at velvety dark chocolate and black pepper. Soft, jacket sort of leather. Maybe an expensive purse, loaded with a brick and taken to the wrestling matches by an old lady, with which to beat on the bad guys. Wet cedar, oily-so. Heavy on heavy composted earth. Warm round notes but lacking in delineation. Loads of mullet'd character.
Second-third intros a pot of coffee left out on a diner table so that the waitress can duck out and smoke a cig instead of standing by to refill. Calls you "Hon." This thing is a mood, as the kids say. A vibe, a sating as heck one. Gives the sense of having a comfortably full belly. Back-end shows spots of ripe purple fruits, figs, mulling spice. Something like roasted orange on the long ass finish of mainly mocha. Much depth.
Smokes damp. Burn-line is an issue almost out of the gate and needs interventions all the way to the wire. Ash is fugly. Draw prefers double-puffs but doesn't over-heat. Never gets scorchy or brash on the palate. Cushy af. Smoke out-put is -moderate+ leaving a nice sweet leathery room-note. Assemblage is fine. Bull in a china shop? Well, a calm bull in a truck plaza, wandering from the buffet to the gift shop in a muscle T.
TASTE: A-
DRAW: B
BURN: B+
BUILD: A-
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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