CroMagnon EMH 2024 (5 x 56)

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(Description taken from Halfwheel.com website)

Last year, RoMa Craft Tobac announced that it was updating CroMagnon—the company’s first blend—due to issues it had sourcing the Connecticut broadleaf wrapper that the blend used. As such, the company has reworked the CroMagnon line, which now uses a Pennsylvania broadleaf wrapper. The rest of the updated blend includes a Sumatra hybrid binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. For context, the original blend had a different binder and no Dominican tobaccos.

RoMa Craft has begun shipping the seven core sizes of CroMagnon. These are the same core sizes that it used for the original CroMagnon blend:

CroMagnon Pestera Muierilor (4 x 46) — $8.70 (Box of 30, $261)

CroMagnon Knuckle Dragger (4 x 52) — $9.75 (Box of 24, $234)

CroMagnon Mandible (4 1/2 x 60) — $10.25 (Box of 24, $246)

CroMagnon Mode 5 (5 x 50) — $9.95 (Box of 24, $238.80)

CroMagnon EMH (5 x 56) — $11.05 (Box of 24, $265.20) REVIEWED TODAY

CroMagnon Anthropology (5 3/4 x 46) — $11.60 (Box of 24, $278.40)

CroMagnon Cranium (6 x 54) — $12.40 (Box 24, $297.60)

The cigar is very dark and has a nice feel in the hand.

The test draw after cutting the cap was good. The initial flavors at light up were lime, apple, brown sugar, a lot of dark chocolate, and black coffee. There was black pepper rated at 7 1/2 - 8. Nice start.

At the first third (23 minutes) the lime, apple, and brown sugar are working very well together. There's a lot of dark chocolate in this cigar. It has the lead over the black coffee. They're in a 60/40 split. The cigar is medium to full bodied. The finish is a apple and dark chocolate with very good lingering black pepper. The cigar is good and stout. I rated the first third 95.

Moving through the second third (52 minutes) not much has changed. There's a little more black coffee and the cigar is now full bodied. The finish is unchanged. The cigar is good. It has a lot of dark notes and a lot of sweet notes. I rated the second third 95.

The cigar lasted 1 hour 20 minutes. Again, not much changed in the final third. The black coffee continued to rise and there's a lot of dark chocolate. The sweet notes dipped just a little. The cigar is full bodied. The finish is unchanged. I rated the final third 94. This is a solid cigar. The Pennsylvania wrapper worked well. 

Overall Score: 94.67