Friday, December 9, 2022

Dunbarton T&T Cigars Muestra de Saka The Bewitched in Review

BRAND: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust
BLEND: Muestra de Saka The Bewitched

WRAPPER: Habano
BINDER: San Andres
FILLER: Nicaraguan, American

FORMAT: 6.63x48
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium

NOTES:
Caramel | Milk chocolate | Spices (light dessert)

The word exquisite almost immediately comes to mind. My favorite little treat is a big chocolate bar of Cadbury Dairy Milk. My congratulatory Cadbury offering is a Caramello. That's a thing I taste here. Cadbury is not a sponsor of Kaplowitz Media. Accompanying spices include allspice and cardamom. A buttery-smooth cedar structure is raised like a barn. I also experience a chicken coop earthen savoriness.

An apple pie cooling on a sill. Nice delineation and an even nicer interplay between primaries. Finely-ground white pepper leads the middling, followed by a cup of joe with cream and sugar. A bit of clove. Suede begins to engulf it all come the second-third. Nicely transitional, quite calmly complex, and deep although well-lit nuances are shown. A remembrance of roasted lemons hits at the near-half.

Smooth as baby powder poured down your pants in August (I'll tell you what). Delicate sweet/spicy poultry-savory aroma. Perfect draw tension and burn pacing. Razor-thin line with a half-tick occasional and self-correcting wave. Ash grows quite well with a slight flaky airiness. Rolled supremely-so and stays that way effortlessly. A light-hearted meditation in a sun-lit study; I smell-taste new textbooks.

TASTE: A
DRAW: A
BURN: A-
BUILD: A

FINAL GRADE: A
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79

::: very :::