BLEND: Original
WRAPPER: Nicaraguan Habano Oscuro
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan
FORMAT: Trident (750)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua (La Zona)
INTENSITY: Medium-full
SPICE: 3/5
NOTES:
Ginger | Milk Chocolate | Cayenne
Sand ginger powder is an interesting thing. It's a type of ginger, of course, but one that's a tick less gingery. More woodsy-citrusy. Sweet-earthier. That's all over this. With accompanying notes of milk chocolate, other exotic spices, clarified butter, and a lovely cayenne kick. Really an eye-opener smoke.
Nuanced and sating, but also bright and quite delineated, complex. A real zinger like the barbs exchanged twixt Dorothy and Sophia on Golden Girls. Now my mind wanders to Miami and vibrant tropical floral notes. I never got how their family was supposedly Italian yet obviously Jewish.
What's the old Hollywood adage? "Write Yiddish, cast British." I think so. Now I truly wander. I'll digress. this is truly a shayne maidel of a cigar in spirit. Although there are blemishes which make her approachable at a dance. A somewhat janky burn and some awkward seams. It all sweetly works, tho.
A shayne maidel is a pretty girl. It's particularly apt here if said woman has a rapier with and perhaps slight ketsem yofi... that means birthmark; but literally it means mark of beauty. I call it character. Perhaps flavor. All apply. Such a smoke, epes! I'll stop now. Fuhgettaboutit!
TASTE: A
DRAW: A-
BURN: B
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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