Smoked: Alec Bradley American Sun Grown

Smoked at: West Chester, Ohio

While my fingers were walking through the bottom of the humidor today, I spotted a cigar I haven’t smoked in over a year. Hello, old friend. We should catch up, get reacquainted, have your cigar rep call my cigar people.

Time to fire up what was once one of my everyday go-to cigars, Alec Bradley American Sun Grown – a Nicaraguan with a smooth somewhat oily dark sun grown Habano wrapper.

The dominant flavors are cedar, nuts, spice and everything nice. I rarely taste this but I’m picking up some hickory with the cedar along with dried fruit, cream, cinnamon (or nutmeg), cocoa, earth and leather. There is pepper, but it’s pretty mild. It’s a rich, complex, flavorful medium-full body, medium strength stick. I now remember why it was one of my mainstays.

Construction: the draw is perfect, fairly even burn line, no touchups required, and firm holding solid grey ash that tapped off when necessary but never fell off.

Alec Bradley American Sun Grown is an underrated cigar. I believe the price point belies the quality of this cigar. It’s an enjoyable everyday smoke.