CLE Habano

CLE Habano is made with Nicaraguan and Honduran filler, a Honduran binder and a smooth seamless Honduran Habano wrapper with very visible veins including two that a phlebotomist would envy.

Flavor profile: oak, heavy spice, light cream, fresh brewed coffee, and milk chocolate. The spice is interesting. There’s cinnamon in the mix along with other spices in the range of what you might taste in Thai or Korean dishes. At the risk of being politically incorrect, let’s call them Oriental spices. The oak turns into a charred wood taste midway through the second third. I also picked up a skosh of floral at that point. The balance and complexity are impressive. This is a medium-full bodied, medium strength cigar.

Construction: nice open draw, copious amounts of smoke, white and dark grey ash held firmly to over an inch, tapped off on command, burn line was dead even. There was one small wrapper crack midway through that self-healed – no cigar glue or Mercurochrome needed.

CLE Habano is a very enjoyable wood and spice-driven cigar recommended by a friendly neighborhood tobacconist. Thank you, sir. The Eiroas know their stuff.

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