81347 SOMM sommeliers selection. Never heard of or seen this before. Came from darklord trade.
Very rustic wrapper. Toothy/gritty, visible separating seams, a few prominent veins. Suspect an MSA wrapper. Loose cap came off with my thumbnail. I did properly clip the head tho.
First light mega pepper blast. Settled down quickly to dark chocolate, sweet nuts, vanilla bean with a bit of tannin astringency. Slightly creamy texture that I think would really come forward with some age.
It's another cigar that reminds me of the baitfish. If I had time I'd smoke them both back to back. But I don't. I like it enough I'd buy a fiver for $40 and bury it for a couple years. But I suspect this is one of those short run test batch cigar releases from a new brand or an offshoot/solo project thing that comes in a paper wrap for $15per. It's good, but I struggle to justify anything over $10. Especially something I'm gonna light on fire.
Halfway through, more chocolate, more vanilla, still with a gritty dirt MSA flavor and tannins. Not a complex cigar.
Looked it up, it's everything I thought it was.
halfwheel.com wrote:For his first releases, Stojanov created two blends. Somm BDX is a line that uses a Mexican San Andrés wrapper, a viso binder from Jalapa, Nicaragua and a filler that uses tobaccos from Mexico’s San Andrés region and Nicaragua’s Jalapa region, along with broadleaf grown in Honduras. It is produced at Fábrica Centroamericana de Tabaco S.A., the facility best known as the Cavalier Genève factory in Danlí, Honduras.
And it's $13per. So this will be my first and last SOMM BDX. Was good tho. At 1:15 I had to put it down. I'm on call tonight so I'm gonna shower and go to bed early just in case I get called out I got some sleep. Probably could've gone another 30 minutes. Still no profile changes. One thing the whole way through.