Felix Assouline Cigars EGO Passion - Cigar Review Redux by Kaplowitz

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Felix Assouline EGO
WRAPPER: Habano Criollo 98
BINDER: Indonesian
FILLER: Nicaraguan, Honduran

FORMAT: 6.5x58 Torpedo Box-press "Passion"
ORIGIN: Nicaraguan
STRENGTH: Medium

NOTES:

"Autumn-spiced cedar. Sunlit earth with a slight sweet hay attachment. Cocoa butter. Copious tho not unsettling amounts of white pepper on draw and through the nose. Drops to palate in a red pepper, sweetened with avocado honey and its characteristic buttery depths. A building creaminess. Sweet woods. 2/3 is all about hibiscus and salted caramel cashews. Black pepper comes in kindly. Cinnamon steers spices. Final act is a sweet earth, woods, and heavy cream forefront. Leathery under-belly. Deeply nuanced with lively complexities all the live-long." - Me, Felix Assouline Ego - [original] Cigar Review (LINK)

Verily, yes again. Second verse (offering) same as the firs' (offering). Really quite dee-lish. The issue is the combustion and it's most likely due to rolling (construction). Burn begins on a mouse-hole then runner which threatens to canoe. Then all quiets well-'nuff in the 2/3. THEN 3/3 sees a return to woe -- tho less woe. Bunchings looks the issue, as hard clumps of leaf and pin-hole tunneling happen throughout. Draw is at times hollow.

FINAL GRADE: B
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Felix Assouline Cigars EGO White HEX (Toro) - Cigar Review by Kaplowitz

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Felix Assouline EGO White
WRAPPER: Nicaraguan Criollo '98 (Jalapa)
BINDER: Indonesian
FILLER: Nicaraguan (Jalapa)

FORMAT: Toro "HEX"
ORIGIN: Nicaraguan
STRENGTH: Medium-Full

NOTES: Toasted cedar/hickory woodsiness with growing via progression dark chocolate overtones & roasty-toasty sweet cream. Espresso bean led undertones; well-rounded and smooth black peppery nice zetz. Some black walnut, anise, and topsoil hither and thither. Nice construction & combustion. Good draw and even 'nuff line, although burn is a tick quick. Solid if not dry ash.

FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59

"Felix Assouline EGO White The lone line that the company announced prior to the show, the EGO White builds on the company’s existing EGO and EGO Connecticut lines with a new blend that uses a wrapper grown on Assouline’s Omega Tobaccos farm in Nicaragua’s Jalapa region. The company announced four vitolas in early July—Divine, Magic, HEX and Taboo—with plans for a total of nine sizes, all of which were included on the order forms at the show. While it’s a regular production offering, the company is staggering production to an every other year basis, meaning that once the 2018 production is depleted, it won’t go back into production until 2020." www.Halfwheel.com (2018)

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