Factory: El Aladino – Danli, Honduras
Size: 6” x 52, parejo
Strength: Medium-plus
Wrapper: Mexican San Andrés Maduro
Binder & Filler: Honduras (Eiroa Corojo Farm-grown)
Dominant Flavors: Earth, sweet spice, cedar, pepper, salted caramel
Where it’s at: Rolled in a dark chocolate-colored San Andrés Maduro wrapper, the Asylum 13 Medulla Oblongata Maduro Toro opens with notes of earth, sweet spice, cedar, and a dash of pepper. The smoke is dense and creamy on a long, sweet n’ spicy finish. Burn is slow and even with a gravity-defying ash. At the half the sweetness builds, the pepper fades, and some saltiness creeps in making for a luscious, salted caramel effect. Everything keeps chugging along nicely from there with a well-balanced, medium-plus body. A most opulent, humidor-worthy treat.
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Gary Korb has been writing and editing content for CigarAdvisor.com since its debut in 2008. An avid cigar smoker for over 30 years, he has worked on the marketing side of the premium cigar business as a Sr. Copywriter, blogger, and Executive Editor of Cigar Advisor. A graduate of the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, prior to his career in the cigar business, Gary worked in the music and video industry as a marketer and a publicist.
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