BLEND: 1888 Nicaragua
WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Sumatra
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan, PA Broadleaf
FORMAT: Toro (650)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium-full
SPICE: 2/5
NOTES:
Chocolate | Leather | Walnuts
Roasty-toasty, maybe a tick over-cooked. Quite chocolatey, bread to corner-piece brownie. Roasted oranges with their own semi-sweet chocolate underpinnings. Leather, black peppercorn; dryly-so. Black walnuts.
Draws a bit all-over-the-place. Snugs up on a double-puff. Tightens all-the-more at hard-spots in the roll. None terribly, but dully noted. Does sate, warmly-so.
Flaky ash, not messy. Uneven burn, not so that it mandated retouching. Did peter-out once at mid-point. Above-moderate smoke out-put. Black bread, seared pepper-steak aroma.
Seams loosened-some but held. Slight cap degradation. Some small-ish veins, no impediment there. A couple of (aforementioned)hard-spots along the way were smoked through sans abundant tsuris.
TASTE: B+
DRAW: B
BURN: B-
BUILD: B
FINAL GRADE: B
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
I recently reviewed this blend in its new Churchill size HERE. Also, some time back, in its Robusto iteration HERE.
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