940. Drew Estate Blackened S84 Shade to Black Corona Doble

Gifted by a friend.

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

Information:
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut
Binder: USA Connecticut River Valley Broadleaf
Filler: Nicaragua & USA Pennsylvania Green River One Sucker
Origin: Nicaragua

Factory: La Gran Fábrica Drew Estate (Nicaragua)
Box: Sold in 20 count boxes.
Release: 2024
Availability: Regular Production.

Size: 7×50, Churchill.

Wrapper: Almond beige, oily and smooth texture with tiny veins.

Construction: Fairly firm and even feel when lightly squeezed.

Cold draw: Barnyard and cedarwood.

1st third: Starts with cashew nuts, dry cedarwood and digestive biscuits.

2nd third: Unchanged.

Burn: Burns fairly sharp with a firm and stable white-ish ash.

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

3rd third: Slight pepper spice added, it also gets a earthy note together with the nuttiness and that classic Connecticut bitterness gets introduced.

Duration: 17:10-18:55, 1h 45min.

Conclusion: A medium bodied cigar with a medium bodied cigar. It’s a well balanced cigar but not very complex profile, it’s a good cigar.

Result: In my book this is a 87 point cigar.

/Cigar Reviewer André