Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade G2BW
Binder: San Andrés Negro
Filler: Nicaraguan
Vitola: Robusto (5 ¼ x 52)
Purchase Link: Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust Sobremesa Brûlée
SOBREMESA Brûlée REVIEW – CALIFORNIA
Summary: I'm getting a honey sweetened tip on the cold draw. There were no instructions to keep this cigar in a separate bag so I'm assuming it's just a flavored tip and not an infused or "conditioned" cigar. There is a good amount of pepper on the retro hale which is something I don't usually expect with a Connie. Cream and honey. I've noted many cigars with great construction, but this is up there with the Atabey in the "god tier." After each puff, the fringe of the burn line lights up orange and burns around the stick like a fuse; smoke this dragon in the dark for a show (I'm not high, I promise).
Tapping the ash as Tootsie roll kicks off the second third. The sweetness is still lingering but much less prominent. I'm retro haling at least 90% of the smoke now that the pepper is less intense.
Not sure it'll catch on, but I hereby dub this smoke a "two tapper" because that's as many times as it requires ashing. Honey, cream, sage, and coffee in the final third. Nubbed to the tip. Nice.
I've been thinking this since the cold draw: if this is the Sobremesa Brulee and nothing was done to sweeten the tip, then Bob's not my uncle (Bob is ALWAYS your uncle). If it's not the Brulee, then carry on. I'm a novice talking about dragons over here.
If You Like That, You Might Like This: Your wife buying you some froufrou bedroom attire, but she's into it so you're into it.
Pairing Suggestion: Eggnog.
Purchase Recommendation to a Friend: Fiver.
SOBREMESA Brûlée REVIEW – WISCONSIN
Summary: This cigar left a lot of sweetness on my lips, and it didn't taste to me like natural sweetness. It also stayed around quite a bit longer - I was still tasting that sweetness on my lips after smoking another cigar after this one. So that sure didn't seem natural.
On the flavors front, it brought notes of cream, pepper, cedar, grass, hay, peanut, and occasional charred meat.
The smoke was voluminous. It had an almost-perfect burn. And that ash! Very tight ash. The draw was slightly on the loose side, but not problematic at all.
Were it not for that lasting sweetness, I would be more interested in smoking more of these.
If You Like That, You Might Like This: Sweetness that sticks with you.
Pairing Suggestion: Coca-Cola.
Purchase Recommendation to a Friend: Single.
SOBREMESA Brûlée REVIEW – OREGON
Summary: The graham cracker color on this wrapper is perfect...and inviting! Hay with floral highlights from the wrapper but hay and baking spices from the foot. The cold draw was a surprise; not much flavor but a definite sweetness from the cap.
Well, starting with a very generic mix of mild tobacco and some really perfume-laden flavors. There is a lingering flavor of... something on the palate as well. This cigar tastes infused, or maybe it’s just the sweetness on the cap. Decent burn and solid ash so those are pluses. A slight shift to heavier floral flavors and the rest of the profile has a little bitterness to it.
Midway mark and the ash just dropped in an impressive display of construction. The flavors are still very similar to the start with mild tobacco, sweeter floral notes and now the addition of some cedar to the mix as well.
In the home stretch! Construction and smoke production are aces. Flavors however remain muted and relatively simple. Mild tobacco, mild cedar and still clinging to that overall floral profile.
If You Like That, You Might Like This: Trying a cigar just to try something different.
Pairing Suggestion: Medium-bodied coffee.
Purchase Recommendation to a Friend: Single.
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