Missouri Meerschaum DrawDown

The Cyprian Latakia offers plenty of earth, wood, smoke, herbs, leather, vegetation, floralness, mild sweet and sourness, mustiness, and light spice as it mostly takes a small lead. The St. James perique provides a wealth of earth, wood, spice, dried tart plum, figs, mild floralness, and mesquite as a very competitive supporting player. Occasionally, it edges past the Latakia for attention. The bright Virginias produce a fair amount of tart and tangy citrus, grass, bread, sugar, some floralness, spice, sour lemon, and a touch of acidity. They sit in the third position, and their fruity presence is obvious. Right below them is the sugary sweet stoved cavendish which heightens those qualities in this mixture, and tames a majority of potential rough notes. The strength is in the center of medium to full. The taste is a notch past that mark. The nic-hit is a slot below the overall strength level. These aspects are a tad lower at the start and reach the levels I ascribe to them before the half way point. No chance of bite or harshness. Deeply rich with some piquant zest, it burns cool and clean at a moderate pace with a very spicy, rather sweet, floral, mildly sour, campfire flavor that extends to long lingering, pleasant after taste. The room note is pungent. Requires an average number of relights, and barely leaves little dampness in the bowl. Not an all day smoke, but it is repeatable. Three and a half stars rounded up to four.

-JimInks