Gifted by a friend.

Location: This review was made in a cigar lounge.

Information:
Wrapper: Undisclosed
Binder: Ecuadorian Habano
Filler: Dominican Republic, Ecuador & Nicaragua.
Origin: Costa Rica

Factory: Tabacos de Costa Rica (Costa Rica).
Box: Sold in 10 count boxes.
Release: 2021
Availability: Regular Production.

Size: 7.5x(54)60, Salomones.

Wrapper: Dark roasted coffee bean brown, sandy texture with small veins.

Construction: A little giving with a little uneven feel when lightly squeezed.

Cold draw: Hay and earthy.

1st third: Starts with dark roasted coffee, hay, bitter almonds, dark dirt, oakwood and some lingering spice.

2nd third: Calms down a bit, not as punchy, but with the same flavours. It disappears quickly, and turns very harsh and spicy.

Burn: Burns fairly sharp with a firm but unstable white-ish ash.

Smoke: Voluminous smoke with a medium cool feeling on the tongue with a medium light draw.

3rd third: The wood notes are more similar to a pencil wood, it’s very harsh, earthy but not sweet and very dark roasted coffee bitterness. It’s getting truly awful to smoke at the end, super harsh and spicy.

Duration: 13:50-15:35, 1h 45min.

Conclusion: A medium bodied cigar with a full strength profile. For the size of cigar it’s very strong and harsh, I had to drink a lot of water to clench my palette, would have wanted something sweet instead to balance it out. It’s not balanced, there aren’t a lot of complexity just more of the same throughout.

Result: In my book this is a 83 point cigar.

/Cigar Reviewer André