Blind Review:
Size: Corona extra
Smoke time: 6:58 pm - 7:55 pm
Appearance: Nice triple cap, light tan wrapper with a couple green discoloration spots, minimal veins, fairly seamless with slight wrinkles
Pre light: Smells of light pepper and hardy tobacco. The cold draw is minty and tastes of black licorice
1st Puff: The minty flavor is very present mixed with tons of black pepper and hay with a slight leather undertone. The retro-hale burns my nose. The cigar is a medium body.
1st Third: The mint flavor quickly leaves the cigar and the flavors shift to a lovely cocoa and pepper. 1/2" down and the flavors shift to a very nice peppery leather and dried cherry. The burn line is pretty wonky but I'm not correcting it. After 1" the burn corrects itself. The flavors again transition to a very lovely cinnamon and slight nutmeg. There is very little pepper even on the retro-hale. It's smooth as can be.
2nd Third: The dominant flavor is a very pleasant cinnamon with dried/charred cherries. There is no pepper to speak of which is surprising because it was so strong during the first inch.
Last Third: There have been no changes in the flavors since the 2nd third began except for the cherry flavor is almost gone. The cigar is just a cinnamon and nutmeg flavor.
Final Thoughts: I smoked this to the nub. It's the first cigar in many that I've smoked this far. There was very little nicotine buzz from this cigar. This cigar started out like a rocket and was on it's way to becoming a legend but fizzled into the 2nd third. That's not a bad thing because these flavors were right up my alley and it was extremely enjoyable but became almost boring and that's a bad thing to most. You don't ever want to "bore" your audience with your brilliance. I would smoke this cigar by the box.
Score: 94
Thank you mwlabel for providing this cigar. It was much appreciated.
Lastly, make sure your dog doesn't pee on the same bush everyday because this is what my wife's newly potted plant looks like after a week.
Size: Corona extra
Smoke time: 6:58 pm - 7:55 pm
Appearance: Nice triple cap, light tan wrapper with a couple green discoloration spots, minimal veins, fairly seamless with slight wrinkles
Pre light: Smells of light pepper and hardy tobacco. The cold draw is minty and tastes of black licorice
1st Puff: The minty flavor is very present mixed with tons of black pepper and hay with a slight leather undertone. The retro-hale burns my nose. The cigar is a medium body.
1st Third: The mint flavor quickly leaves the cigar and the flavors shift to a lovely cocoa and pepper. 1/2" down and the flavors shift to a very nice peppery leather and dried cherry. The burn line is pretty wonky but I'm not correcting it. After 1" the burn corrects itself. The flavors again transition to a very lovely cinnamon and slight nutmeg. There is very little pepper even on the retro-hale. It's smooth as can be.
2nd Third: The dominant flavor is a very pleasant cinnamon with dried/charred cherries. There is no pepper to speak of which is surprising because it was so strong during the first inch.
Last Third: There have been no changes in the flavors since the 2nd third began except for the cherry flavor is almost gone. The cigar is just a cinnamon and nutmeg flavor.
Final Thoughts: I smoked this to the nub. It's the first cigar in many that I've smoked this far. There was very little nicotine buzz from this cigar. This cigar started out like a rocket and was on it's way to becoming a legend but fizzled into the 2nd third. That's not a bad thing because these flavors were right up my alley and it was extremely enjoyable but became almost boring and that's a bad thing to most. You don't ever want to "bore" your audience with your brilliance. I would smoke this cigar by the box.
Score: 94
Thank you mwlabel for providing this cigar. It was much appreciated.
Lastly, make sure your dog doesn't pee on the same bush everyday because this is what my wife's newly potted plant looks like after a week.
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