Rocky Patel

Prohibition Broadleaf

Having smoked the San Andres just the day before, I didn’t know what to expect. The previous one was just okay, but this one, I was hoping for more since I like Connecticut Broadleaf wrappers more than San Andres. Unlit was the same hay, wheat, and coffee notes, but also a little cocoa. Wrapper was dry and not toothy. Seams and veins a-plenty, but it works. Nice cap that withstood the straight cut. Much better draw. Cold draw let me taste what I smelled (wheat, hay, cocoa, etc.). Light up was easy and the flavors were great: cinnamon, cream, coffee, earth, plus baking spices and chocolate on the retrohale. Plenty of nice, thick smoke! Foot smoke is decently aromatic. Finish isn’t long, but it’s nice. Notes of butter are in and out along with a faint herbal taste. The chocolate became more apparent as I went through the first third. Burn was nowhere close to razor sharp, but it didn’t canoe like the San Andres. Ash fell in 1” chunks. It was very flaky. The second third was magic. Flavor blends were excellent, as good as a cigar twice the price. The notes of hay and coffee mixed with the chocolate, wheat, and cream and gave an impression of chocolate cake. The final third gave new notes of leather and an increase in strength. Flavors and foot smoke never turned foul or acrid. Delicious down to the end. Smoked it until I couldn’t hold it anymore (about a half inch nub). All in all an excellent stick even without considering the price.