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Smoke Into Oblivion
FTTF BLIND REVIEW CIGAR A
Approx 5x42
So this is the first cigar of three that Fourtotheflush sent for blind review. It is a good looking little petit corona with a fan tail and closed foot. Wrapper color
is a dark caramel brown, with a fair amount of tooth to it. Veins are visible and a few are of decent size. There is almost no aroma from the body of the cigar, but the
closed foot gives off some leather and cedar, and a little spicy tingle in the nose. Once cut, the cold draw is fairly free, almost loose, but not quite, and tastes heavily
of hay, dusty cocoa, and a hefty spicy pepper.
Lit at 1:49pm.
Right away my palate is bombarded with heat. Just strong, hot spicy pepper. Once past that though, there is a great, tangy, slightly sweet cedar that lingers through
the almost overwhelmingly spicy finish. The burn is great, almost razor sharp, and the ash displays a stacked quarters effect in spades. Smoke production is also great.
This is definitely a full bodied smoke, no doubt about it.
Second third... by this point the spice has toned down a good deal. It still is present, both through the nose, and on the finish as a long, smouldering heat. The flavor
profile has taken on a touch of bitterness, like high test dark chocolate.
I'm pretty certain that this cigar is either a Nicaraguan puro, or at least is all Nicaraguan on the inside (wrapper may be some Habano seed from another country, maybe Ecuador)
but the flavors and heat all point to Nicaraguan ligero heavy blending... I'm actually 99.9% sure I know what this cigar is.
Burning down through the final third, really nothing changes. This has proven to be a consistent smoke almost from start to finish. The flavor profile never really changes much,
but the couple of dark, rustic notes that are there are STRONG. I mean, the spicy heat alone is almost unlike any other cigar I can recall smoking (other than what I think
this is!). Depending on price I could see this being a great cigar to smoke while doing something else, or in a social situation where I'm not going to be paying all of
my attention to the cigar. The performance, from a technical stand point was also great, and further lends itself to that "not just smoking, doing other things as well"
idea.
Thanks FTTF!
Approx 5x42
So this is the first cigar of three that Fourtotheflush sent for blind review. It is a good looking little petit corona with a fan tail and closed foot. Wrapper color
is a dark caramel brown, with a fair amount of tooth to it. Veins are visible and a few are of decent size. There is almost no aroma from the body of the cigar, but the
closed foot gives off some leather and cedar, and a little spicy tingle in the nose. Once cut, the cold draw is fairly free, almost loose, but not quite, and tastes heavily
of hay, dusty cocoa, and a hefty spicy pepper.
Lit at 1:49pm.
Right away my palate is bombarded with heat. Just strong, hot spicy pepper. Once past that though, there is a great, tangy, slightly sweet cedar that lingers through
the almost overwhelmingly spicy finish. The burn is great, almost razor sharp, and the ash displays a stacked quarters effect in spades. Smoke production is also great.
This is definitely a full bodied smoke, no doubt about it.
Second third... by this point the spice has toned down a good deal. It still is present, both through the nose, and on the finish as a long, smouldering heat. The flavor
profile has taken on a touch of bitterness, like high test dark chocolate.
I'm pretty certain that this cigar is either a Nicaraguan puro, or at least is all Nicaraguan on the inside (wrapper may be some Habano seed from another country, maybe Ecuador)
but the flavors and heat all point to Nicaraguan ligero heavy blending... I'm actually 99.9% sure I know what this cigar is.
Burning down through the final third, really nothing changes. This has proven to be a consistent smoke almost from start to finish. The flavor profile never really changes much,
but the couple of dark, rustic notes that are there are STRONG. I mean, the spicy heat alone is almost unlike any other cigar I can recall smoking (other than what I think
this is!). Depending on price I could see this being a great cigar to smoke while doing something else, or in a social situation where I'm not going to be paying all of
my attention to the cigar. The performance, from a technical stand point was also great, and further lends itself to that "not just smoking, doing other things as well"
idea.
Thanks FTTF!
