Friday, August 30, 2024

Sans Pareil Cigars Purple Line in Review

BRAND: Sans Pareil
BLEND: Purple Line

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Sumatran
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Dominican

FORMAT: Double Corona (7.5x50)
ORIGIN: Dominican Republic
INTENSITY: Medium
SPICE: 1/5

NOTES:
Stickball | Cow | Travel

Chocolate | Leather | Red wine

As a Brooklyn kid, I would play stickball in the streets with a broomstick. The size of this cigar reminds me of that, and in turn of how old I've become. Although poverty does have a way of being stuck in the past, and I'm only just now coming up on middle age if I live to 100.

A delicately-lingering refrain of purple drink, perhaps influenced by the band-color. Wide, soft-rolling landscape. Pastoral. Soft hills separate damp valleys of chocolate and leather. Fertile.

Little League afforded me my first real-life glimpse of a cow when my traveling team went out to either Long Island or New Jersey, I don't recall which. It was a strangely over-and-underwhelming experience. I think I scored a run but can't recall how I ever made it on-base. Probably a walk.

A slow--to--unfurl meditation sans fascination or surprise; but subtly-deeply pleasant. Well-balanced, languidly-delivered. Hard to put a finger on, seemingly not lending itself to it. Panoramic-tannic.

TASTE: B+
DRAW: B+
BURN: B
BUILD: A-

FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79

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