SLR Double Corona OTS DIC 09 (JMRW)

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Sooo... expectations high, obviously. This was nothing like JM, that’s for sure. Except perhaps for the expensive looking suit. Lovely looking stick: smooth and supple, well-preserved and sheeny after ten years. 

Calm smoke. Very calm. Cool, light-roast milky coffee. Seasoned wood. A hint of sweetness to that wood, maybe cherry. But it’s the character that gets you. Like smoke in a gentle breeze, or the run of a quiet stream. No fireworks. No sturm und drang. A cigar for the library, or a warm solo evening in the mountains.

Great burn, huge long ashes. One touch up the whole way. I do love the first half of a DC: all that cool refined smoke. Then it started to gently creep up in body, and even after a decade started to get just a tiny bit grubby at the end, so I set it down satisfied just after that second picture.

Don’t like scoring. Let’s call it a 1!