Java Latte Review

4/24/2014

Cigar: Drew Estate Java Latte
Size: Corona, 5.0"x42 (box-pressed)
MSRP: $7.00
Strength: Mild-medium
Wrapper: Ecuador Connecticut
Origin: Nicaragua

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Prelight: A very smooth, velvety wrapper. Light in color, it puts off a sweet and creamy aroma, like sweetened milk. The foot smells the same. The box-press is impressive, almost perfectly square. After a punch, the draw is perfect.

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1/3: Immediately I taste a sugary sweetness on my lips. There is a bit of spice from the tobacco, but mostly the flavors in the first third are a heavy cream (like the stuff that comes in an aerosol can), coffee, cocoa and sugar. (Imagine that.) There is a decent amount of smoke coming off the cigar.

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2/3: The spice mellows, but I can still feel it on the tip of my tongue. The coffee and cocoa flavors have also faded and I am mostly getting cream and sugar now. The burn is near-perfect and the grey ash hangs on for about an inch at a time.

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3/3: In the final third, the cream begins to fade and the profile is mostly sweetened tobacco. There is a hint of cedar from this Nicaraguan cigar.

Overall: A pretty good coffee-infused cigar. As the name suggests, there is a lot of cream flavor to it. I think this is more of a dessert cigar than a morning one, as the sweetness is a bit overwhelming. Drew Estate did a good job emulating the flavors of a latte into a cigar.