BLEND: Blue Line
WRAPPER: Criollo
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Dominican
FORMAT: 6 1/8x52
ORIGIN: Dominican Republic
(Tabacalera Palma)
INTENSITY: Medium
SPICE: 2/5
NOTES:
Dessert spice | Cedar | Suede
Silky-smooth with a sweet-spicy fascinator hat of a retro-hale. A true pirimide vitola that nonetheless balances well in-hand. Balance is this thing's groove, and it hugs them cedar scales-rails tight. Dessert spice, melon sweetness, suede enveloped and tucked into a chicken coop. Hens are laying chocolate caramel eggs. A separate white chocolate. Honey malt unfurls.
Also unfurling is a weightily building mouth-feel dropping from the olfactory on-down.
Draw is effortless. Burn is quite productive insofar as voluminous out-put. [Imagine the aroma of a frosted devil's food cake being pulled out of an oven in a humidor.] Ash grows well. Burn-line does snag hither-thither but self-corrects. A languid burn-rate is appropriate for all else experienced. There is a light crimped vein and seams loosen a tick, seemingly do readjust.
I hope I've described well, a supreme smoke. In the past, I've been no stranger to calling my shots. This is a mid-year contender for my cigar of the year.
TASTE: A
DRAW: A
BURN: A-
BUILD: A-
FINAL GRADE: A
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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