BLEND: Speed Shop Habano
WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Habano
BINDER: San Andres
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Dominican
FORMAT: Crankshaft (6.5x54) box-press/flat head
ORIGIN: Honduras
INTENSITY: Medium/Medium-full
SPICE: 2.5/5
NOTES:
Dessert Spices | Peaches | Butterscotch
Dessert spiced pale-to-pink (peach?) fruitiness off the bat, cushioned in chewy butterscotch. Malt. Fustiness. A fleeting hint of cardboard. Peanut butter on whole wheat toast. Sandy. Salty. Quite consistent and when transitional, kindly-smooth. Notes entrench via progression, pick up nicely intermingled nuances.
Ash is some-flaky. Press rounds a 1/2" off the cherry. I think I taste cherry. Burn-line is even, but a bit thick and un-pretty. Seams and other assemblages hold. An almost ruby red grapefruit note comes on once going strong. Excellent smoke volume, sweet cedar olfactory. Cedar hits mouth. Apple butter.
TASTE: A-
DRAW: A-
BURN: B+
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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