BLEND: The Bay City Maduro
WRAPPER: Mexican Maduro
BINDER: Sumatran
FILLER: Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Toro (652)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua (Tacasa SA)
INTENSITY: Medium/Medium-full
SPICE: 3 /5
NOTES:
Dark chocolate | Paprika | Anise
Interesting pepperplay; better described as spiceplay. Seeing as there is quite the dirge of pepper, per se, at least of the familiar black varietal. There is much immediate anise in a black licorice fashion up-front. A sweet paprika lays and holds the line. A cayenne is conjured via retro-hale, drops to the palate lastly.
Dark chocolate silky-smoothly covers the smoke-hole. Some floral tidings, hibiscus or dahlia. A bit of a separate blackbread; evolving into blackforest atop a base of composted earth. Excellent harmony 'tween all mentioned. Hints of nutmeg and clove happen alongside other spices. French roast coffee variably whispers.
Draw is rather open and lends to what feels a quick, active smoke. Burnline wanders a bit through the opening act, evens thereafter. No lit redirect is needed. Builds a nice salt and pepper sheath which gets oilier along with body. Big smoke out-put.There's a fair-tick of a vein or two both over and under top-leaf.
Sweetness gets wholly weightier and weightier.
TASTE: A
DRAW: A-
BURN: B+
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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