Guest is new to L&L, Vance Taylor who started Stoic Cigars made at the Kelner Cigar Factory in the DR. Vance blended this cigar with Klaas Kelner and went through 17 iterations to get to the final blend.
Habano wrapper with a different habano binder, with five different filler tobaccos.
There's a QR code inside the band and an app you can log your experiences on.
This is the Wisdom vitola (classic Churchill) of their first offering.
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Maybe the floral notes had a hint of jasmine but I didn't get any refined toasted cedar. Also maybe a hint of cinnamon in the last third, mostly I got floral notes and some citrus / apricot hints. I enjoyed the cigar.
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The guest is Riste from Jas Sum Kral, comes from an IT background and had an interest in making a cigar.
He went down to Nicaragua to meet with Noel Rojas to talk about making cigars.
His first cigar was the Red Knight. He had problems with the flavors changing from the factory so he made a change.
The cigar is a light, medium bodied cigar with leather, cream, and some sweet peach flavors. It's a habano.
The cigar is the Red Knight Toro.
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Guest: Mike Worked at Neptune, CLE, LFD, now at Plasencia which supplies 70% of cigar tobacco. They draw test all of their cigars twice. Plasencia prides themselves on their consistency and fermentation processes. They make 70 M cigars across 10 factories. The cigar is a 5.25 x 52 box press maduro and I'm getting cedar and spice. It's a Plasencia Alma Fuerte Robustus.
John gave me the name of the cigar.
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Dang it, I forgot it was tonight. Had to close the office at 6pm and realized I didn't have my keys and my wife was gone so I sat over there for an hour and did paperwork until she got back and helped me lock the doors.
Seco thin most aromatic
Viso medium highest sugar
Ligero Thick most nicotine
It's more about texture then where on the plant the leaf was grown based on sun exposure and when it was picked.
Leaves are sorted by touch
Picked Condega because it's balanced in flavor, pretty much every Nic cigar uses Condega.
Smoking multiple puritos at the same time will be different than smoking a finished cigar, the puritos will burn hotter and the finished cigar will burn at a lower temperature and give you different, better flavors from the oils.
The leaves in the center will burn hotter than the leaves on the outside.
In this case, the finished cigar is a Nicaragua Condega puro, they went through all the bales to find enough leaf for wrappers, but I believe that Condega is not normally used for wrapper.
I'm feeling the vitamin N from smoking all the cigars.
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The cigar has a razor sharp burn line, when I went to cut the cigar I noticed some cracks in the wrapper near the head but I chalk that up to handling and not a knock against the cigar construction.
Guest tonight is Andy from Villiger, previously from Davidoff and Perdomo. It's a Villigar San D'Oro Colorado Robusto, mild with some apricot sweetness.
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Guest is new to L&L, Vance Taylor who started Stoic Cigars made at the Kelner Cigar Factory in the DR. Vance blended this cigar with Klaas Kelner and went through 17 iterations to get to the final blend.
Habano wrapper with a different habano binder, with five different filler tobaccos.
There's a QR code inside the band and an app you can log your experiences on.
This is the Wisdom vitola (classic Churchill) of their first offering.
Did you guys taste the jasmine and toasted cedar
Maybe the floral notes had a hint of jasmine but I didn't get any refined toasted cedar. Also maybe a hint of cinnamon in the last third, mostly I got floral notes and some citrus / apricot hints. I enjoyed the cigar.
Blind Tasting tonight, email's went out.
Yeah , got mine a couple hours ago
The guest is Riste from Jas Sum Kral, comes from an IT background and had an interest in making a cigar.
He went down to Nicaragua to meet with Noel Rojas to talk about making cigars.
His first cigar was the Red Knight. He had problems with the flavors changing from the factory so he made a change.
The cigar is a light, medium bodied cigar with leather, cream, and some sweet peach flavors. It's a habano.
The cigar is the Red Knight Toro.
Blind Tasting tonight.
Guest: Mike Worked at Neptune, CLE, LFD, now at Plasencia which supplies 70% of cigar tobacco. They draw test all of their cigars twice. Plasencia prides themselves on their consistency and fermentation processes. They make 70 M cigars across 10 factories. The cigar is a 5.25 x 52 box press maduro and I'm getting cedar and spice. It's a Plasencia Alma Fuerte Robustus.
John gave me the name of the cigar.
Dang it, I forgot it was tonight. Had to close the office at 6pm and realized I didn't have my keys and my wife was gone so I sat over there for an hour and did paperwork until she got back and helped me lock the doors.
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Blind tasting tonight.
Seco thin most aromatic
Viso medium highest sugar
Ligero Thick most nicotine
It's more about texture then where on the plant the leaf was grown based on sun exposure and when it was picked.
Leaves are sorted by touch
Picked Condega because it's balanced in flavor, pretty much every Nic cigar uses Condega.
Smoking multiple puritos at the same time will be different than smoking a finished cigar, the puritos will burn hotter and the finished cigar will burn at a lower temperature and give you different, better flavors from the oils.
The leaves in the center will burn hotter than the leaves on the outside.
In this case, the finished cigar is a Nicaragua Condega puro, they went through all the bales to find enough leaf for wrappers, but I believe that Condega is not normally used for wrapper.
I'm feeling the vitamin N from smoking all the cigars.
Event tonight!
The cigar has a razor sharp burn line, when I went to cut the cigar I noticed some cracks in the wrapper near the head but I chalk that up to handling and not a knock against the cigar construction.
Guest tonight is Andy from Villiger, previously from Davidoff and Perdomo. It's a Villigar San D'Oro Colorado Robusto, mild with some apricot sweetness.