Essential Blend No. 6

O.M. Cigars Private locker

Essential Blend No. 6 Limitado 2013 Production w/ less than 350 in existence.

WRAPPER: Mexican San Andres

BINDER: Dominican, Cuban Pilot

FILLER: C98, Esteli Nicaragua, Jalapa, Colombian.

FORMAT: [box-pressed]

ORIGEN: Dominican, Nicaraguan, Colombian

INTENSITY: Medium-full

NOTES:

Hickory | Chicory | Pecan

Spicy feels more-so than tastes. Somewhat puckering. Sleek. Benign strong-arm steerings. Quite the hickory showcase, spiced in a hot cider manner. Excellently delineated on account of that forward wood. There’s also a chicory coffee with the former way on-out in-front of the latter. A bit stiff, a tick bit more elegant. Stuffy, in a perhaps overly formal manner. The meat on its bones is lean muscle. A pilates class low-calorie creaminess. Transitional not frenetic. Nuanced, not burying. White & black peppercorn.

There are edges but not aggressively-so. Svelte-stealth. Brisk. Honeysuckle lightens the mood some, swirling in the midsection. Some dark fruits, non-descript and dried/drying. That puckering–it becomes an obvious lemon candy come the 2/3d. As if we needed more spryness. Picture a lovely piano, a classic neat upright, freshly over-polished w/ lemon pledge. If you touch it, a brusk butler forcefully sprays/wipes. No eye contact. EXCUSE ME, SIR &/or MADAM. he says. You then sit up straight and do not touch the piano again.

The calm hand of a classic experience can be at times off-putting or at least not a thing to be comfortable around. This is not comfort food, an easy chair, nor is it even easy. But it is worth it. Performance-wise, there is no challenge. An easy draw, an almost perfect burn-line. A toothy, clingy sheath of ash. Cosmetically, the press does round-some. Big smoke out-put results in spiced-leathery room-note after a complex aroma on pair with a complex palate. Apple Butter and applewood begin as a late-coming sniff, then taste.