BLEND: Shade
WRAPPER: Honduran Shade
BINDER: Honduran
FILLER: Honduran
FORMAT: Toro (652)
ORIGIN: Honduras
INTENSITY: Mild-medium
SPICE: 1.5/5
NOTES:
Play/beach sand | Lemon candy | White peppercorn
This smoke registers into a genre of similar smokes all which make me think of Lemonhead candies plucked out of play or beach sand and popped into my mouth. A bit more toward gritty here-- perhaps beach sand. White pepper accompaniment gets confused-into citrus. A bit of white-to-green tea is of interest.
Consistent. Balance is there, simply-so, but there. An easy cigar that I'd recommend pairing with a dry chardonnay or light-roasted coffee barista'd into a latte. There are, in fact, hints of both those beverages herein. Draws excellently-well. Burns nicely with a more oily than expected dark ash. Rolled ably, although a hairline crack develops in the top-leaf midway.
All notes are a bit mingled, at times intermingled. Usually somewhat muffled if not muted. There are depths and nuances, but they must be looked for diligently.
TASTE: B
DRAW: A-
BURN: B+
BUILD: B
FINAL GRADE: B
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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