Gifted by a friend.

Location: This review was made indoors in a cigar lounge.

Information:
Wrapper: Brazilian Mata Fina
Binder: Indonesia Besuki
Filler: Undisclosed
Origin: Nicaragua

Factory: Fabrica de Tabacos NicaSueño S.A. (Nicaragua)
Box: Sold in 40 count boxes.
Release: 2016
Availability: Regular Production

Size: 5×50, Robusto

Wrapper: Chestnut brown, oily but coarse texture feel with small veins.

Construction: A bit uneven spots of softness and harder points when lightly squeezed.

Cold draw: Light woody note.

1st third: Starts with pinewood, shortbread, sweet spice mix, pain au chocolate pastry and light pepper note in the background.

2nd third: Gets a wood forward push in this part, otherwise unchanged flavours.

Burn: Burns uneven with a firm and stable white-ish ash. It corrected itself in the final third.

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

3rd third: Unchanged from previous parts.

Duration: 17:15-18:15, 1h.

Conclusion: A full bodied cigar with a medium strength profile. Very enjoyable cigar with well balanced flavours.

Result: In my book this is a 92 point cigar.

/Cigar Reviewer André