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• **Start**:
• Subtle chocolate, dried fruit, apple, and honey melon on the wrapper and cold draw.
• Mild and smooth initial flavors, with baking spices and a surprising mint-like freshness lifting the profile.
• Retrohale offers cedar, with hints of leather beginning to emerge.
• **Second Third**:
• Uplifting freshness fades, replaced by deeper roasted coffee and rich leather.
• Campfire-like warmth and coziness become prominent.
• Occasional notes of saltiness and nuttiness (peanuts) develop.
• **Final Third**:
• Rich, roasted, and smooth flavors dominate.
• Pepper on the lips and a strong, bold retrohale emerge.
• Ends with a deep, roasted richness that ties the experience together.
• **Overall**:
• Excellent construction, even burn, and consistent draw throughout.
• Subtle, evolving transitions with moments of surprise and warmth.

• given to me by G.K.
• From 2023, aged 1 additional year
• Took a sip of Coke Zero
• Ate a small piece of milk chocolate
• Wrapper smell is subtle, some chocolate and dried fruit. Smelling the end gives subtle notes of apple
• Cold draw repeats that dried fruit odor, notes of apple and melons
• Additional cold draw gives some sweetness, like honey melon
• About five minutes into this smoke and it is smooth and mild so far, no prominent flavors have sparked yet
• Retrohale has notes of cedar
• The cigar is stiff yet soft when slightly pressed
• The pull is smooth, but has just the right amount of resistance to produce a medium size cloud of smoke
• eight minutes in, and I have an even burn line
• Construction seems excellent
• light, baking spices on the tip of my tongue,
• 10 minutes in, and I'm starting to get some lightness towards the front of my tongue, almost cool, ice-like … a fresh surprise
• There is a bit of richness that is starting to kick in
• it's almost like there's an icy hot on the front edges of my tongue, lifting the leather palette to a higher note
• I'm 14 minutes in
• 25 minutes and the taste hasn't really changed, the fresh lights uplifting flavor that I was experiencing, seems to have vanished
• ate a piece of milk chocolate
• I think that lightened uplifting favor can be described as mint
• 30 minutes in and I'm reminded of a campfire
• Took some sips of my Arnold Palmer alcoholic drink
• 32 minutes in and I have begun to transition into the second third
• the leather appears to be transforming into some sort of roasted coffee
• The lemonade in my drink definitely produces some floral notes
• was trying to stack the ass and it finally fell at the 37 minute mark, as I was trying to take off the binder
• took another bite of milk chocolate
• I'm 52 minutes under this nearing the end of the second third and the profile is rich and deep with notes of leather
• Gonna go back to my comment about the campfire, this is a cozy cigar
• The cigar has had an even burn line most of the way through with very minimal touchups
• excellent construction
• took a sip of my Arnold Palmer drink at the 53 minute mark, and then took a pull of the cigar … there was a little bit of saltine us, and warmth reminiscent of peanuts
• as I begin to transition into the final third I am starting to get some pepper on my lips
• tried another retrohale and I will not be doing that again, was too strong and burned my nostrils.
• nearly a nub at 1 hour and 20 minutes, roasted and smooth, rich profile