My first thought lighting this puppy up was finally a great full cigar. The construction was nice it had a beautiful dark chocolate hue and smelled great pre-light. Some dark woods and chocolate or cocoa with tea.
Very heavy solid cigar that was fairly firm and a big ring guage which i like.
The smoke is spicy and deep to start. Red pepper spice on the sinus that lingers. A very chewy smoke thick and rich.
My burn line is a bit messy but i had a little trouble with a match. A lot of area to get lit properly. It is correcting itself howerver and i don't think there are any lop sided flavor issues.
Meaty comes to mind. Pepper blast in the sinus even more than when i lit it at a few minutes in. I can't see the ash very well in the moonlight but it seems rather white.
This is what i call a good smoke after heavy Italian or a Steakhouse dinner. Still it isn't crazy powerful by any means.
The smell is robust and complex. The flavors are almost licorice and very dark. No butter which is disappointing. A woodsy lush mahogany. Aged bitter and minute sour like a rocky patel 1990 on steroids.
Center of ash seems to have darker spots suggesting ligero but i am not sure.
Spice abruptly moves into creamy almost butter.
The ash is strong and not flakey.
The smell at the head of the cigar is sweet honey and salty.
Not much to say with three inches left - flavor is the same if not a little more toned down.
Sort of fizzled out in flavor department. Burnt toast and tea. My throat is scrathcy and the burn for the final two inches is miserably lopsided.
Great overall despite troubles near the end.
Good Smokes,
Dave
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