WRAPPER: ???
BINDER: ???
FILLER: ???
FORMAT: Toro (652)
ORIGIN: Honduras
INTENSITY: Medium/Medium-full
NOTES:
Coffee | Almonds | Grains
Besides a slightly waxy dark chocolate addition come the second-third, this one is lullingly consistent. There is a slight evolution in the nutty note which sees it move to almond from walnut and pick up a bit of that bite. Coffee is ground Italian roasted beans. Grains have a tick of molasses attached, they're darkly toasted and heavy. Somewhat dry of a profile.
Not much if any structure and delineation is instead a bleeding over of borders. Lays fairly flat and quite broad across the palate. The underbelly, which rides high to further muddle, has a hint of leather savoriness to it and lesser-so, black pepper. Maybe it's black licorice. I don't recall those two ever running so near one-another. I suppose both are aboard. Murky.
The draw is a little bit of an issue. It always errs toward snug at a near-constant moving-around tension. Cap suffers some from pulling. Burns on a jagged but self-correcting thinnish line. Ash doesn't want to grow a whole dark fugly lot. Sends off a good amount of smoke and leaves a room-note of its primaries. Curiously scant aroma, though. Roasty-toasty simplicity.
Oh. Dark tropical flowers on the final-third retro-hale. That's neat. Although a tick chemically-so.
TASTE: B
DRAW: B
BURN: B
BUILD: B
FINAL GRADE: B
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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