Alec Bradley Cigars Black Market Esteli Torpedo
- Size: 6 1/2 x 52
- Strength: Medium to Full
#9 Cigar of the Year 2018!
I’ve noticed that many cigar enthusiasts know their favorite cigars come from Nicaragua, but the exact location remains a mystery. Since the term ‘black market’ alludes to things unidentified or shadowy, I felt compelled to bring Esteli, the cigar capital of Nicaragua, out of the shadows. Black Market Esteli pays homage to the importance of the city and every-thing it offers to cigar making.
myprivateisland –
Scent:Got some honey sweetness.
Construction: Oily, smooth, toothy wrapper. Great construction, great burn, great draw, firm, and great tight ash.
First Third: Got chocolate and nutty flavors and a nice spice in the back of the throat. Coffee toward the end of the third.
Second Third: In the beginning I got a sweet tanginess that I could not articulate. Developed a sweetness and started to get smooth.
Final Third: smooth, lots of smoke, coffee, chocolate. A bit of bitterness but purging it helped get over that.
Tyler Ralph –
Got this bad boy in the subscription box and it was flawless from the lovely swiss dark cholate smell and the incredible flavors of dark chocolate, coffee and incredibly smooth, perfect burn As well! I personally like to do a retrohale just to get an idea of the strength of the cigar and it was more full in my limited experience.