BLEND: Sumatra
WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Sumatra-seed
BINDER: Mexican, Pennsylvanian (dual)
FILLER: Dominican, Honduran
FORMAT: Gran Toro (6.25x52) box-press
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium-full
SPICE: 2.75/5
NOTES:
Chocolate sponge cake | Cherry Dr. Pepper | Spices
Clove and sweet paprika lead the orange-reddish feeling spices. Cake and soda are very huddled together. The whole profile is a bit hard to pull apart throughout the 1/3. A toasted-scorched pine wood vegetality comes in at the 2/3 to lend delineation. Wide line coasts from there-out, smoothly-so.
Draw's a tick-toward open, and could be rather easily over-smoked. Big smoke out-put with a chocolaty, herbaceous olfactory. Ash is a hair airy. Press rounds some. Lips get salted, coated in light oils. Body builds nicely, uncloyingly. Well-rounded, nuanced blend. I'd recommend a Tawny Port pairing.
TASTE: A-
DRAW: B+
BURN: B+
BUILD: B+
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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