Oak Glen Tobbaco Society - Year of the Nope Rope

Feb 5

This cigar was made exclusive for the Oak Glen Cigar Society for Febuary in honor of the Chinese new year, year of the Snake.

Wrapper: Habanno 2000

Binder: Nicaragua

Filler: Nicaragua

Factory: Dominican Republic

Size: 7″ × 40“ Lancero

The Cold Draw :

The flavors is of burnt sugar, sal de mar, coca nib, blueberry powder, and cedar.

Flavors

1st :

Initial puffs from this cigar have mint, chocolate powder mix, vanilla, cane sugar, navel orange, allspice, plum, chicory, sun-dried tomato, tamarind, malt, cedar, brazil nut, and strawberry.

2nd:

The second third brings more baking spice with sweeter cinnamon notes, orange water, diamtra sugar, plum, goji berry, grains of paradise, asparagus, milo wood, and oats

3rd:

The last third had the sweetness popping with more creamy notes and baking spice notes of allspice, black cardamom, black walnut, and sal de mer.

The notes of plum, chocolate mint, grains of paradise, and dried cherry are now involved; the grassy notes are gone.

The Draw :

I did an angle cut. The draw is constant and has no ristance to it, and has a creative retro

The Burn :

The burn is consistent and burns evenly with no need to be relit for a lancero.

The Appearance :

This cigar has a closed foot bottom and a pigs tale top.

There is a big smoke output to this cigar.

It was wrapped with a custom label featuring a snake, and when you peel the label off, it looks like a snake slithering all around the cigar.

The label was designed by Malory

Final Thoughts:

This cigar is not what I expected from a lancero in any way. I was surprised by the flavors and the depth of complexity of sweetness. I wish everyone could get it.

Brian Spears