Appearance
A nice milk chocolate colored slightly mottled wrapper w/ tight seams and a couple of thin prominent veins. Also has a very light sheen.
Aroma
Hay on the wrapper. The foot smells of hay,cedar and sweetness.
Prelight Draw
Cedar, hay and sweetness
1st
The first puffs have notes of cedar and hay with a nice Spanish Paprika spice. Draw is perfect and the burn is off slightly but no correction needed. Ash is semi tight and salt & pepper gray. Plenty of smoke volume with each puff.
2nd
The spice picks up late in the 1st/3rd becoming more like a crushed red pepper which I really like. The burn has self corrected at this point. A little ways into the 2nd/3rd the spice mellows a bit and I pick up a light floral note. The strength has gone from medium to medium+. Cedar has become the prominent flavor at just past 1/2 way on the cigar. Picking up some espresso notes balanced by the original sweetness and a hint of crushed red pepper spice.
Final 3rd
A very well balanced enjoyable smoking experience. A complex cigar for sure. All of the flavors meld together nicely. The finish is long and spicy. The burn stayed razor sharp since it self corrected.
Special thanks to Spence Drake for sending the Cubanacan samples to review.
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