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Cigar #4 Humidity: ?

Nose: Sweet tobacco, hint of hay

Appearance: Shiny, smooth, took a punch well.

Cold draw: Hay and sweet tobacco. Cigar very firm, but decent draw.

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First 1/3:

Cream and mild twang, tasty mild leather with hints of sweetness. Decent amount of smoke, burn slightly uneven to start. Cigar settles into light leather and subtle sweetness at about the 1 inch mark. Lots of fragrant smoke, cigar is tending towards a pretty well developed lopsided burn which i tried to fix with a touch up.

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Second 1/3

Ash held over 2 inches and just into the second third of the cigar. Partly because of the canoe support. After the ash fell the cigar attempted to go out, and I had burn issues throughout the second third, which was a bit frustrating due to the good volumes of fragrant rich mildly leathery smoke. Frequent double puffs and touch ups in the middle third, and cigar had a hard ash on the canoe Side.

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Last 1/3

At the start of the last third I cut the canoe off and gave the cigar a re-light. It finally began to behave better, and had a decent burn through the rest of the cigar. Flavors are leather and sweet spices, delivered through large volumes of flavorful smoke, and towards the middle of the third some pepper and earth began to kick in. A few minor wrapper issues, mainly due to the fresh cut, but the cigar ended well.

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Overall notes:

This cigar had good flavor, but the burn issues, extra puffing, and general maintenance detracted from its overall score. I think this was just a cigar with some construction issues, and the other two smokers did not have the same sort of issues I did, and reported decent flavor as well. Smoked about an hour and 22 minutes.

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