Profile

• **Start**:
• Loose draw with a light sappy sweetness.
• Strong black pepper initially, transforming into white pepper.
• Subtle ginger, burnt cedar/wood chips, and wheat.
• **Middle**:
• Sweet caramel and smooth vanilla emerge, balanced with dried fruits.
• Nutty, bread-like flavors and baking spices with hardwood retrohale.
• Medium-full body with a transition into leather.
• **End**:
• Rich, deep flavor with floral hints.
• Mineral taste as it nears the nub, with increasing pepper.
• **Overall**:
• Smooth and velvety retrohale throughout.
• Complex and evolving with transitions between bold spice and subtle sweetness.

• No wrapper smell, but it was sitting in G.K.'s travel humidor
• Cold draw is loose, light sappy sweetness
• Black pepper right off the bat
• Little bit of wheat off the bat, the flavor seems to create a cone that pinches off towards the back of the tongue
• Lots of pepper
• Retrohale is silky smooth
• Notes of burnt cedar/wood chips
• An extremely subtle taste of ginger
• The initial pepper is toned down
• About an inch into the cigar and I taste some caramel
• Vanilla, it is super smooth
• Aftertaste between puffs is slightly nutty
• Each draw is so smooth and open
• I have never retrohaled so much on a cigar, but this is so velvety smooth it coerces me
• The retrohales produce a hardwood profile
• Getting some white pepper, bread-like, flavors on the tip of my tongue during an exhale
• Dried fruits
• Into the 2nd third…
• The profile has gotten richer, as most cigars
• The peppery-aspect has been transformed into a white pepper with spice
• The overall profile is a medium-full body now
• Getting some leather profiles now
• Still has some nuts to the profile, but drier
• Definitely a hardwood flavor profile
• Baking spices, red pepper
• More leather as I transition into the final third
• Deeper profile, sinks into the tongue
• Some floral flavors coming out in the final third
• Find myself salivating at this point, a rich and complex flavor profile
• Some pepper and bread outline the puff
• The pepper seems to be kicking in more as I'm getting through the third
• Getting towards the nub and getting a mineral taste
• Peppery towards the end