Date: 9/30/23
Cigar: Tatuaje Havana VI Gordito
Drinking: Water
Weather: 74 F, faint breeze
Smoke Time: 80 minutes
Draw: Hard
Visual Construction: Pleasing, firm with little spring, rather prominent leaf veins.
Burn: Somewhat hard to light, noticeable and consistent sharp canoeing/running on one side. Had to touch it up often throughout the entire session particularly first half. Veins seemed to prevent even burn.
Ash: Average for first ash, second ash fell off short, completely unexpectedly, singed my arm. Third ash also totally unexpected and very short.
Body: Medium
Nicotine Strength: Medium
Unlit Flavors/Smells: The wrapper is spicy on the tongue, and smells of rich chocolate, coffee, roasted almonds, raisins, leather, oak. Dry pull tastes of pure dark chocolate covered raisins with a hint of sweetness.
Smoking Notes: First pull is spicy roasted nuts. First half relatively single-track flavor of “just smoke”. Second half coffee notes come through, hints of dark cacao. Gives way to more leather and pepper. Earthy but not “dank forest floor”
Conclusion: Complex without being dank or bitter. Smooth enough for a noob but interesting enough for a more experienced smoker I reckon. The construction really lets this down, 3/5 with a possible 4/5 if this was just a particularly bad example.
