Vitola: Robusto- 5.25” x 50 ring gauge
- Received as part of 2020 SnS Member Kit
Background
Welcome back for the second installment of my look at the Saints & Sinners Club 2020 Membership Kit cigars. If you joined us late, please feel free to check out last week’s look at Cigar #1 from the kit. If you don’t know what this “Saints & Sinner Club” (or SnS Club) is…well, I explained that there, as well.
The second cigar from the 2020 kit appears to be a Connecticut Shade wrapper. It could be a unique blend, it could be something quite ordinary from the existing lines, just in a slightly tweaked size or something…although the size is just about a standard Robusto, albeit with a little pointy-cone head. If it’s a blend we’ve seen before, that would narrow it down to Cabiaguan, Negociant, or Tiff…maybe a couple other things I’m not thinking of at the moment. Just standing on the outside looking in, I’m guessing this is some new, experimental thing or some very rare thing that was made for someone along the way…honestly, we’ll probably never know…probably best to just smoke it and enjoy!
Notes
The wrapper was a little dark for a Conny, although lighter and more golden than the ones in the pack that I identified as probably Habano, so I’m going with the odds. Hey, it might not even be a Conny! Although the hay and cedar aroma from the leaf indicates that I’m probably right. The foot had plenty of earthiness, along with a cocoa powder and slightly sweet aroma. Once clipped, the prelight draw had a sweet grassiness overlaying wood and earth notes.
SnS 2020 #2 fired up with a medium-bodied mix of earth, citrus, hay, and cedar, backed up by just enough sweetness and pepper to really hit the “complexity” button right off the bat. A friend had given me the last bit of a bottle of Four Roses Single Barrel and I paired this cigar with some of that.
The Four Roses was sweeter and smoother than I remembered, but it’s been a while. There was a bit of alcohol vapor and spice on the finish of each sip, but a honey-like vanilla sweetness throughout.
As the SnS 2020 #2 burned along I got tons of cedar flavor, backed up by hay, with earth and a nice pepper burn underneath. It wasn’t my favorite Tatuaje Connecticut wrapped cigar…that’s still the Negociant…but it was better than the Tiff…or at least the sizes of the Tiff that I’ve had before now. Come on, man…it might be a Tiff in a different size!
Overall, a nice experience, but not spectacular for me as Tatuaje blends go.
