Pepper notes on the retrohale strong enough to make me sneeze. Draw produces lots of smoke, however the cigar excessively smokes just resting between draws. The center of cigar must be rolled very tight because you brush the ash off the cherry almost cones to a point. The burn needed a touch-up going into the first third, but after that stayed fairly even. The rest of the session was pretty much the same all the way through. Other than the burn and a minor construction issue the cigar is a nice smoke.