What a great stick. A real dessert cigar. This is the kind of smoke I started the hobby for.
There was a woody, sweet tobacco taste on the sniff test. A real promise of what lay ahead. I couldn't wait to light it.
The draw was good, though a little snug, which is fine with me. Immediately I got a smooth, sweet tobacco taste with a short, creamy finish. Within minutes the flavour of milk chocolate began to make its presence felt. It rounded off the smoke perfectly. There was no real complexity, but this stick was strong enough not to need any.
After a while, I got hints of cedar, and a nice hint of mocha. Still the flavours were sweet, the coffee and chocolate becoming more prominent as time went on.
Then came a transition. Woody flavours started to come to the fore; the finish grew longer, with a hint of white pepper. The cedar undertone remained, and then a burst of ground coffee rounded off the taste.
The construction was good. The burn was razor-sharp from start to finish.
For the next twenty minutes or so, the flavours alternated between the sweet chocolate and coffee, and the cedar with a hint of spice. Then the chocolate fought its way back to the front.
What happened next was a revelation. I had a sweet drink, and then BAM. This cigar went to a whole other level. It was like smoking a bar of chocolate. Every puff filled my mouth with this delicious, rich chocolate flavour. It went from a good cigar to something genuinely special.
This heavenly chocolate taste continued to the end. I got two hours out of this smoke but I wanted it to go on longer so I could get more. I wished I had another in my humidor so I could light it right away and carry on this magnificent ride. I was like the Augustus Gloop character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, wanting more and more of this sweet nectar.
I will now be ordering a box of these fine cigars. I don't expect it to last long.
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