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(Description taken from Halfwheel.com website)
The second release of Warped Cigars’ Selección Domain series is off to stores.
It’s the Selección Domain 4546, a 4 1/2 x 48 Rothschild that uses a Dominican corojo wrapper over a Dominican Cotuí binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, though Warped says the majority of fillers are from the Dominican Republic. It is made at TABACALERA LA iSLA in the Dominican Republic.
The MSRP is set at $9 per cigar and it is sold in boxes of 25 cigars.
“I wanted to craft a blend from each factory that highlighted the factories’ backgrounds and strengths and its evident in each blend as they are vastly different from one another,” said Kyle Gellis, Warped’s founder, in an email to halfwheel.
He cited El Titan de Bronze as having Cuban heritage, AGANORSA’s Agricola Ganadera Norteña S.A. in Nicaragua as “showcasing the raw power of Nicaraguan tobacco,” and LA iSLA as having a “youthful spirit (willing) to take chances.” The first Selección Domain was released in Q1 2022 to DROP, Warped’s cigar club that sells exclusive releases. The AGANORSA blend has not been released yet, and Gellis declined to comment about whether it would be sold via DROP or to retail stores.
The cigar is medium brown and well made. It has an average feel in the hand.
The test draw after cutting the cap was very good. The initial flavors at light up were cedar, brown sugar, a little citrus peel, a lot of earthiness, and light leather. There was black pepper rated at 7. Not a bad start but there is quite a bit of earthiness.
At the first third (21 minutes) the earthiness has risen quite a bit. There is a touch of cedar and moderate brown sugar, a lot of earthiness, and light leather. The cigar is medium bodied. The finish is leather with average lingering black pepper. The cigar is too bland. There is too much earthiness and not enough sweet notes. There's not even that much leather. I rated the first third 88.
As I moved through the second third (40 minutes) the earthiness is still there in abundance. There's not much of a sweet note. Only hints of brown sugar. And the leather is still light. The earthiness is like a dry dust. The cigar is medium bodied. The finish is leather with very good lingering black pepper, which has greatly improved. Again, I think the cigar is too bland. And it's much more earthy in this section. I rated the second third 85.
The cigar lasted 53 minutes. The cigar made a bounce back in the final third. There's more of a citrus note with brown sugar, plenty of earthiness, and light leather. The cigar is medium bodied. The finish is unchanged. Basically the cigar got very much like it was in the first third so I rated the final third 88. This cigar is too earthy for me.
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