BLEND: Brown Label Maduro
WRAPPER: Brazilian Maduro
BINDER: Dominican
FILLER: Dominican, Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Torpedo (652)
ORIGIN: Dominican Republic
INTENSITY: Medium
SPICE: 1.5/5
NOTES:
Chocolate Mousse | Hazelnut | Peppered Chicory
The hazelnut weaves into and throughout the airy chocolate, adds some heft, and bingo--Nutella. Peppered Chicory is boiled chicory sauteed with chili or black pepper(s). Serve that all up on a bed of rich compost confined in a hardwood frame, and that's this. Consistently, unerringly, this/that.
& ain't this/that enough? But also a sweet finish with the slightest of crisp tingles. A real meat and potatoes smoke. A smoke that plays on its union softball team. I am familiar with, and now thankfully reminded of this brand. It's always felt so Americana. Like smoking on a chili dog outside the Tastee-Freez.
Good draw, effortless burn, tight construction. Smells like back when you could smoke in a diner. I'd imagine Bruce wouldn't get why this is such an affordable smoke; going off his ticket prices. & while Jack has his hand between Diane's knees; this cigar is just a cigar, a damned solid ditty of one at that.
TASTE: A-
DRAW: B+
BURN: B+
BUILD: A-
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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