A milder and rather sweet smoke. Hints of pepper only appear on the retrohale. Very smokey output. Even with all the milder tones, the ash proves very toothy.
Really great cigar. A lot of the barrel aged wine flavor was present on the first half of the smoke. It had a bit of wrapper flaking. None of the other sticks in the humidor had the issue so I'm dinging the appearance on this one. It did not impact the smoke at all.