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(Description taken from Halfwheel.com website)
In 2018, Warped Cigars released Moon Garden; in 2023, Warped will release Moon Garden Especial.
The new Moon Garden Especial is a 5 5/8 x 52 toro—the original Moon Garden was a 7 x 40 lancero—and the different size has led to some tweaks to the blend, specifically adding medio tiempo to the blend. Like the original Moon Garden, the Especial uses a Nicaraguan corojo 99 wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers from Nicaragua. All of the tobacco used comes from AGANORSA and the blend is made at AGANORSA’s Agricola Ganadera Norteña S.A. factory in Estelí.
Warped has set the MSRP at $16 per cigar and production is limited to 1,000 boxes of 20 cigars.
Medio tiempo is a priming of tobacco—the way a plant is divided into sections vertically—that is found above the ligero priming, typically the highest priming. It’s only found on certain plans and only some growers go through the effort of classifying it separately from ligero. Given its position on the plant, if a plant has medio tiempo tobacco growing on it, that tobacco should be the strongest tobacco from that plant. In recent years, a variety of manufacturers have marketed their cigars as explicitly containing medio tiempo tobacco. Previously, that tobacco was typically classified as ligero.
The cigar is medium brown and has a nice feel in the hand.
The test draw after cutting the cap was a little firm. The initial flavors at light up were pear, citrus, brown sugar, and leather. There was a tremendous amount of black pepper rated at 8 1/2 to 9. One of the most pepper cigars I've had. It's a dry, table-type of black pepper. Peppery start.
At the first third (32 minutes) the black pepper has toned down to 7 1/2 to 8. Still very peppery. The pear and brown sugar are a little on the light side. There's quite a bit of an earthy note with a little nutmeg mixed in and leather. There's more earthiness than leather. Because the black pepper is so high it's actually adding to the cloaking of sweet notes along with the earthiness. The cigar is full bodied. The finish is pear with good lingering black pepper. The cigar starts out immediately with nice sweet notes but they quickly begin decreasing due to the earthiness. I rated the first third 92.
As I moved through the second third (1 hour 10 minutes) the earthiness is really getting up there. The pear and brown sugar are faint. The leather is coming out a little more also. The cigar is very full bodied. The finish is earthy leather with very good lingering black pepper. For Warped this is a very full bodied cigar. The black pepper is still quite high also. I rated the second third 88.
The cigar lasted 1 hour 34 minutes. The sweet notes are pretty much an afterthought at this point. There is a lot of earthiness and leather. The cigar remains very full bodied. The black pepper is still very high. The finish is unchanged. I rated the final third 82. This is a Warped cigar that missed me almost entirely. It's very full bodied, very peppery, and very earthy with leather. The sweet notes start decreasing immediately after light up.
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