Perla del Mar

Shade

A simple blend portraying notes of sweet wood. Clean tobacco notes keep those one basic. Decent draw and burn, just would have enjoyed more flavor profile.

TL;DR - JC Newman quality. Mild with strong nic and a series of wonderful honey and leather flavors. Bravo! 👍 5 mos aged ⏳️ Prelight is honey granola. Goldilocks draw with a little leather and a touch of apricot. Light up is a little bit rough. Burn line is beautiful. 😍 However, there is a canoe. In time, this corrects itself. As expected, this is a mild flavored cigar. Light leather undertone. 🍯 Honey comes and goes in the background. Yum. About halfway through this is packing a punch. 👊 Coming to the end, I can sum this up as a fantastic and consistent mild smoke. There's a little bit of tobacco spice and a mild wood in the flavor profile at the end, yet the leather and honey flavors remain. Recommended!

My stick was a little on the soft side, but it wasn’t anything to be worried about. The appearance is what you’d expect from a Connecticut in this price range. Not too many veins, but some. A little mottling. Box press is soft, but noticeable. Scent off the wrapper is cocoa, wheat, and barnyard. Unlit foot gives tobacco and cedar. The cap is fancy and set deeply, withstood double straight cut. Cold draw gives wheat and honey. Light up is easy. First flavor notes are toast, cedar, mineral, and a dried fruit of some sort. Black pepper and walnut on the retrohale. Draw is a little on the loose side. PLENTY of thick smoke. Ash is solid and light gray, and holds on well. Principal flavor is buttered toast with just a hint of jam through the first third. The burn canoed, but I gave it chance to fix itself and it did nicely. Into the second third and the notes don’t change much. I thought I’d gotten a taste of cream off of this before, but this time around it didn’t peek out until midway through the stick. The pepper showed itself on the palate, not just the retrohale in the second third. Strength at this point is a mild-plus bordering on medium. The band came off well, but it took a little off the wrapper with it. Oddly enough, it wasn’t where the band was glued together. At the end of the second third, a floral note is noticeable. The final third also brings ash as a flavor note. Smoked down to a half inch. Overall a decent smoke, if not slightly inconsistent from one cigar to the next.

Humidor too humid? Burn was poor

Not the worst cigar, but it didn’t wow me…

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