Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Umbagog (Robusto Plus)

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Pre-Smoke Judgement:

Had to try it. Not sure if I'm gonna love it, but I'm sure it will be pretty good. The DT&T brand has been a new discovery for me. Only had the Mi Querida sticks (red & blue), and both were top notch. This brand has my full attention, and I'm ready to smoke through em' all.

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Notes:

1. The Umbagog sat in the cello and B&M zip bag, inside the house, and out of the humidor, since purchased on Sunday (7/26). I also had it my car today, out of sunlight, because I WAS going to smoke it during lunch-break.

2. The cigar was hard to gauge, so I read the following article:

https://cigardojo.com/2017/12/dunbar...child%E2%80%9D.

3. Most of the review will just be what I noticed or not, when referring to the article.

1/3:

Nice and buttery at first. Pretty smooth and creamy. Medium to medium-plusish. Butter was the only thing I could pick up (before reading article) up till almost the 1 inch mark. Afterwards, it became kinda blandish. Manual and flame purging helped a bit, but not for long.

Notes:

During the 1/3, and once it became blandish, I researched and read a couple articles on cigars being kept outside humidors for 3-4 days. What I read led me to believe that I should have not have smoked it. I should have thrown it back in the humidor for about a week. Leaving it out, probably dried it out, and ultimately affected the flavor. I figured it was good be in cello, zip bag...but I forgot the humidity in the house is pretty low with the A/C pumpin'.

2/3 - 3/3 & Cigar Dojo (Concur):

"cola-syrup" - noticed on a slow retrohale in the 2/3

"buttered-toast" - not sure about the toast part, but definitely butter in the 1/3

"licorice" - definitely throughout the entirety

"ginger" / "cardamom" / "anise" - definitely throughout 2/3 -3/3. Ginger heavily and easily noticed.

"sweet butter cookie creaminess" - can kinda see where he's getting at on a slow retohale.

Had to toss it two inches from the punch.

Trial By Smoke Judgement:

Well, my bums, I'm guilty again of possibly fucking away, what was another excellent DT&T. I've already made it a priority to unfuck this (hopefully, it was me), and smoke a fresh Umbagog at the B&M this weekend. The flavors were tremendous, but it went back and forth with the blandness. WE WILL BE BACK TO THIS VERY SOON!