BLEND: BONES
WRAPPER: Connecticut Broadleaf
BINDER: Connecticut Shade
FILLER: Honduran, Nicaraguan, Dominican
FORMAT: Robusto (554) "Chicken Foot"
ORIGIN: Nicaraguan
INTENSITY: Medium/Medium-full
NOTES:
Molasses | Cinnamon | Vanilla extract
This is hard for me. I always want to spell both molasses and cinnamon wrong. Ok... got it. One of the more true looks at cinnamon I've seen in a tick (retro-hale). Fluffs of the powdered stuff. Strategic splooshes of vanilla extract. Lots of viscous molasses. Not much structuring and it all sort of folds in together, almost in a cookie dough manner of style. Leathery soft. Those old shoes that you love. Maybe even slippers.
It is a tick doughy. It might have a bit of a cookies in the oven aroma, although not that sweet. Warm, though, and all-around, that. Welcoming. Well-balanced and with a black pepper addition at the half, a bit more of my attention is grabbed. I feel somewhat that in a lyrical sense, this is more like humming a tune. A thing to smoke over a conversation, not really needing nor wanting your complete attentiveness.
A slow sedate burn is a half-bit wayward but self-correcting. Ash doesn't grow much, and is a bit flaky. Build is quite fine. Draws silky-smooth. Excellent smoke out-put gives that comforting aforementioned aroma plenty of what it needs to congregate into a pleasant room-note. Congregate. I'd recommend this after that, not during. Definitely in slippers. A quiet nightcap. "Night, Kap." "Thanks. 'Night, you."
TASTE: B+
DRAW: A-
BURN: B+
BUILD: A-
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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