BLEND: Red Label
WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Habano
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Toro (654)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium
SPICE: 3.5/5
NOTES:
Honey | Sweet Spice | Cream Soda
Duck sauce, too, via progression. Sweet spices are hard to tease apart and label beyond orange/red. They also operate in a separate sweet grain, and again in a yeasty bit. Roasted orange turns into that duck sauce at mid-point. Crisp, complex, transitional; but also not super delineated.
Draw is snug, although it scans as by design in a super-stuffed barrel. Exceptionally tight near invisible seams. Nice Ash growth. Hints of praline. Maybe a rumor of pale floral notes. Ultimately a quite pleasant almost ingratiating profile. I'm getting images of mocktails and lemon twists.
TASTE: A-
DRAW: B+
BURN: B+
BUILD: A-
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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