Smooth and easygoing, the 2012 By Oscar Toro Connecticut shows how much taste Oscar Valladares can pull from a lighter leaf in a sharp 6 x 52 box-pressed vitola. Rolled in Honduras with an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper over Honduran and Nicaraguan fillers, it stays medium-bodied and offers sweet cream, toasted almonds, fresh bread, and natural tobacco sweetness with a soft woody accent.