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

