WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Connecticut
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Dominican
FORMAT: Lancero
ORIGIN: Dominican Republic (ABAM)
INTENSITY: Mild-medium
NOTES:
Citrus | Creamy earth | Cocoa butter
Somewhat your grandfather's Connecticut, if your grandfather was quite the dapper gent. Calm, reserved, perhaps lacking in enough depth to be considered contemplative. Meditative? Is light meditation a thing? A daydream, then. A stroll in the park as dew settles in the freshly-cut grass. Cocoa butter, coconut shavings, and the dirt trail you're strolling. Some creamy hay. White chocolate. A berry-citrusy bracing breeze.
There are also notes of vanilla and of a light graham flour. It's all there at the beginning and through to the end. Consistent. Also, it might never have been there if you didn't look hard for it. If you daydreamed your way along, you might only notice a sweet creaminess, perhaps the profile's enveloping soft suede. Feels a bit like smoking an appetizer for an entree cigar. Easy and smooth. Mellow. A bit muddied for the dew.
The draw needs double-puffed to sate the palate. But it builds a nice coating as you repetitively do. Lip-smacking. The ash grows extraordinarily well for any vitola. It piles-on from a somewhat wavy, sometimes wide burn-line. The pacing is slow. Smoke out-put is moderate and more-so off the foot, gathers fleetingly in a sweet exotic spice room-note. That spice is in the aroma, as well, but only drops hints to the tongue.
TASTE: B+
DRAW: B
BURN: B
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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