BLEND: StillWell Star Aromatic Dulce Claro
WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Shade
BINDER: San Andres Negro
FILLER: Cavendish Burley, Virginia (via Cornell & Diehl) and "Black Cigar Leaf" (Nicaraguan)
FORMAT: Petit Robusto (548)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Mild/Mild-Med.
NOTES:
I know this. For I am a winter baby who's had winter birthdays. Hot cocoa and confetti cake with vanilla icing. The deftly side-stepped threat of Mom's upside-down pineapple cake somehow looming like a spectre. Years later, getting half-drunk off a pastry chef's egregious rum cake at the start of a shift.
Smooth, mostly. A quarter tick throaty as it heats. Cloying but comfortably-so. Lemon meringue? Madeleines, slightly over-baked. I've never been to a ski lodge nor have I worn the appropriate sweater. I couldn't pull that look off any better than plaid flannel. Smokes like a Hallmark holiday movie.
If a Labradoodle were added to Dogs Playing Poker, he'd be smoking this cigar.
TASTE: B+
DRAW: A
BURN: A-
BUILD: A-
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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