BRAND: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust
BLEND: Mi Querida Black "SakaKhan"
WRAPPER: Connecticut Broadleaf
BINDER: San Andres Negro
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Honduran, Dominican
FORMAT: 7.25x54
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium-full
NOTES:
Skinny Mocha | Fennel | Potting soil
Skim milk and thin oils. Not particularly what I was expecting, but particularly what I get. Spices are more herbal seasoning than peppery, although a finely-ground peppercorn element plays somewhat off-screen. Fennel leads and in its wake flits lilts of licorice and anise. (Anetole.) Quite earthen, clean, and darkly-so, as in a rich in fertilizer potting soil. Slight nagging then ghosting sour nigh quietly acrid bit.
The middlings slide around on the slickery palate. Back walnut flesh, Skinnny mocha there, too--its ingredients less delineated. A nice savory bit with a kindly-smoky charcoal attachment. Finishes long and smooth with a potpourri hint. Uncluttered flirting with vacant. Excellent balance. Somewhat lacking in the sure-footedness needed for depth, but nuanced well. Calmly complex. Medicinal orange suggestion?
Smooth as silk draw. Much of this experience feels like jumping into satin sheets while wearing silk pajamas. (I hope your bed isn't by a window.) Grows great ash off a razor-thin line which wobbles just a tick. Big smoke out-put yields fleeting olfactory triggering; a savory-sweet spiciness. An excellent roll sans soft/hard spots with tight seams and cap throughout. A superb blend but acidic in a thin pestering manner.
TASTE: B+
DRAW: A-
BURN: B+
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
BLEND: Mi Querida Black "SakaKhan"
WRAPPER: Connecticut Broadleaf
BINDER: San Andres Negro
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Honduran, Dominican
FORMAT: 7.25x54
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium-full
NOTES:
Skinny Mocha | Fennel | Potting soil
Skim milk and thin oils. Not particularly what I was expecting, but particularly what I get. Spices are more herbal seasoning than peppery, although a finely-ground peppercorn element plays somewhat off-screen. Fennel leads and in its wake flits lilts of licorice and anise. (Anetole.) Quite earthen, clean, and darkly-so, as in a rich in fertilizer potting soil. Slight nagging then ghosting sour nigh quietly acrid bit.
The middlings slide around on the slickery palate. Back walnut flesh, Skinnny mocha there, too--its ingredients less delineated. A nice savory bit with a kindly-smoky charcoal attachment. Finishes long and smooth with a potpourri hint. Uncluttered flirting with vacant. Excellent balance. Somewhat lacking in the sure-footedness needed for depth, but nuanced well. Calmly complex. Medicinal orange suggestion?
Smooth as silk draw. Much of this experience feels like jumping into satin sheets while wearing silk pajamas. (I hope your bed isn't by a window.) Grows great ash off a razor-thin line which wobbles just a tick. Big smoke out-put yields fleeting olfactory triggering; a savory-sweet spiciness. An excellent roll sans soft/hard spots with tight seams and cap throughout. A superb blend but acidic in a thin pestering manner.
TASTE: B+
DRAW: A-
BURN: B+
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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