BLEND: Atonement
WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Sumatra
BINDER: Connecticut Broadleaf
FILLER: Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Toro (652) Box-press
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Full
NOTES:
Black Pepper | Fennel | Leather
Starts off big and peppery and only tones down a hair-bit via progression. Sharply-focused black peppercorn wrapped in stiff leather. Fennel. Dark toasted pumpernickel bread. A few-pips of baking chocolate. On the far end, a sploosh of vanilla extract and soy sauce. Not overly earthy but some potting soil is laid out below.
A formidable cigar by both the dark show and the go of it. Molasses sidles up to vanilla extract come the second-act. Also, smoked hickory wood is introduced a bit after that. At the half, handfuls of full city roasted coffee beans join the leather-enveloped peppercorns. It's a scorcher and a screamer but it has nice nuances.
This thing is rolled in the unquantifiable manner of looking athletic. A boxer cut to his ideal fighting weight and ready. (Its secondary band is a little title belt, then.) Draws exceptionally smoothly and can't seemingly wait to check my chin. I'm game. I still do fancy a bloody row now and again, guv.
The seams and cap hold, because athletic. Burn-line does wobble a bit and jags a littler-bit, but self-corrects. The ash-growth just wants to make it to the final bell, and it's looking damned good. What's that now? Hibiscus in the championship rounds? Copious smoky volume has a sweet leathery bread aroma.
TASTE: A-
DRAW: A-
BURN: B+
BUILD: A-
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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