BLEND: Dad Bod
WRAPPER: Cameroon
BINDER: USA Connecticut Broadleaf
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Dominican, Honduran, Brazilian
FORMAT: "Champion" 4.5x60 Figurado
ORIGIN: Honduras
INTENSITY: Medium/Med.-full
NOTES:
Licorice | Chocolate frosting (dried) | Ripe purple fruits
You know when you leave chocolate frosting behind on the cake pan and it air-hardens? That. Also this: almost over-ripe dark fruits. Plums. And a baseline of static-fizzy black licorice which at times attracts too much attention. There are plate-sized tropical blooms in the fruitiness and for some reason, they have been dipped in soy sauce. Exotic!
This Champion vitola should be beyond this sort of kitsch schtick, I tell myself. But I can't fully buy it because this is Punch and the company's & Judy history is drenched in slapstick cheekiness much as those flowers are in soy sauce. I like the tie and the all-too-realistic body standards. I think a foot band of white sneakers stained green with mowed grass would be neat.
Fun gift.
TASTE: B+
DRAW: B+
BURN: B+
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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