Ken Byron Ventures Diogenes Club 2022

The cigar provides some earth, wood, peaty vegetation, mild smoke, tart and tangy citrus, grass, tea, herbs, floralness, light spice as the lead component. The nutty, earthy, woody, bready brown burley cavendish is a supporting player. The black stoved Virginia offers some stewed dark fruit, earth, wood, bread, and mild sugar. The mildly sweet, slightly bitter coffee and creamy vanilla dressings moderately tone down the tobaccos as they help create a harmonizing effect. The strength is a couple of steps past the center of mild to medium. The taste is just past that level, though it doesn’t hit the medium mark. The nic-hit is in that center. No chance of bite or harshness, and barely has a rough note due to the smoothing quality of the toppings. Well balanced with small nuances, it burns cool and clean at a reasonable rate with a very consistent sweet, mildly creamy, fruity, cigarish, nutty flavor that extends to the lightly lingering, pleasant after taste. The room note is very pleasant. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires an average number of relights. A very comfortable, easy going all day smoke. Three and a half stars.

-JimInks