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So here is the new house blend cigar from JJ Fox, I'll start with the blurb from the website
'The objective was set: to create a cigar that delivers complexity of flavours, with evolution through every stage. In collaboration with Oscar Valladares and Hamlet Paredes, the cigars have a high-quality, substantial Colorado wrapper; rich and oily. As the cigar warms up it delivers flavour of sweet, spice and earthiness. The draw is perfect; unimpeded yet still requiring a slight effort. As the cigar progresses it remains sweet and earthy also developing grassy notes with spice. Hints of minerality and clean tobacco lingers as a defined aftertaste. Towards the end of the cigar sweetness is still present with a contrasting pleasant bitterness like dark chocolate, also delicate leather undertones.'
This canonazo is presented with an unfinished or shaggy foot, for any newbies who haven't yet experienced this you just light it as normal and it burns away.
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The wrapper has a matte finish with visible veins and construction is perfect. The wrapper has a very faint milk chocolate aroma and the cold draw is slightly spicy, enough to give your lips a little tingle. The draw is very good.
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The smoke is slightly tannic with no discernible flavours including tobacco! It does produce plenty though and the burn is was perfect with no corrections or relights required.
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The ash lacked the beautiful layers of a well made Cuban but it held through to the second third where it ended up on the floor before I could get a photo
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There was no flavour transition during the second third, just the same bland tannic smoke with maybe a hint of pepper.
Into the final third and along came it's first transition, a soapy slightly chemical taste and certainly no hint of sweetness.
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This is the first poor Honduran cigar I can remember smoking and certainly did not justify the £26 it cost me. I also bought a robusto and will update when I smoke it.
'The objective was set: to create a cigar that delivers complexity of flavours, with evolution through every stage. In collaboration with Oscar Valladares and Hamlet Paredes, the cigars have a high-quality, substantial Colorado wrapper; rich and oily. As the cigar warms up it delivers flavour of sweet, spice and earthiness. The draw is perfect; unimpeded yet still requiring a slight effort. As the cigar progresses it remains sweet and earthy also developing grassy notes with spice. Hints of minerality and clean tobacco lingers as a defined aftertaste. Towards the end of the cigar sweetness is still present with a contrasting pleasant bitterness like dark chocolate, also delicate leather undertones.'
This canonazo is presented with an unfinished or shaggy foot, for any newbies who haven't yet experienced this you just light it as normal and it burns away.
IMG_2528.jpg
The wrapper has a matte finish with visible veins and construction is perfect. The wrapper has a very faint milk chocolate aroma and the cold draw is slightly spicy, enough to give your lips a little tingle. The draw is very good.
IMG_2529.jpg
The smoke is slightly tannic with no discernible flavours including tobacco! It does produce plenty though and the burn is was perfect with no corrections or relights required.
IMG_2531.jpg
The ash lacked the beautiful layers of a well made Cuban but it held through to the second third where it ended up on the floor before I could get a photo
IMG_2532.jpg
There was no flavour transition during the second third, just the same bland tannic smoke with maybe a hint of pepper.
Into the final third and along came it's first transition, a soapy slightly chemical taste and certainly no hint of sweetness.
IMG_2535.jpg
This is the first poor Honduran cigar I can remember smoking and certainly did not justify the £26 it cost me. I also bought a robusto and will update when I smoke it.
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