Trinidad Esmeralda 12DCRC

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Watching Joshua fight card yesterday and some nice Lagavulin 16 to keep warm

BSM ABR 20

Aroma- creamy cedar, faint barnyard

Draw - seemed right on with a lot of cream, biscuit, some cedar and coffee

1st - coffee with a little cream, not as sweet as I expected

Lit okay but then burn all over place

2nd - coffee turning bitter, some leather

Had to relight

3rd - more of the same, wrapper issue, bitterness increasing.

Stopped before the band.

Have a box of these on the way and not going to try one until spring

Not impressed and I love Trinidad been smoking them all summer into the fall and not a bad one in the lot.

84 - This is the 6th one from the sampler half way thru and the 2 best were sampled inside out of the cold.

Tried a Monte Edmundo from a good box to make sure its not my taste buds are shot or need a break.  Nope - the Monte was pretty good.