Smoked: Dapper Cigar Company Cubo Sumatra Robusto

Smoked at: West Chester, Ohio

Dapper Cigar Company Cubo Sumatra Robusto is made up of filler and binder from several Nicaraguan farms and Connecticut Broadleaf tobacco and covered in an oily pale brown Ecuador Sumatra Rosado wrapper. It’s one of three Cubos produced by Dapper Cigar Company. The others are a Claro and a Maduro. Although the artwork is mundane, I like the purple and gold color scheme on the cigar band.

Once lit, the cigar gives off a taste of cedar and oak, leather, spice, vanilla creaminess, dark roast coffee, hay and mineral notes. Some dark chocolate, cashews and nutmeg flavors dart in and out of several puffs during the second third. There is a floral aroma along with pepper, earth and leather on the retrohale. There is a touch of floral mixing with the other flavors on the palate as well. Those flavors diminished by the final third.

Nice open draw, but minimal smoke output, a reasonably even burn line and white ash that dropped several times. I have rarely experienced a cigar with a nearly perfect draw and very little smoke production. I finally did a full-tilt turn up the torch and twist the cigar relight to produce some smoke.

Cubo Sumatra is a medium-bodied, medium strength cigar start to finish. The first two thirds could have been more enjoyable. The lack of smoke output rendered the flavors difficult to fully appreciate, especially by the final third. After the relight, the flavors lacked complexity despite the slight increase in smoke.