Aganorsa Leaf Tabsa Aficion

Smoked: Aganorsa Leaf Tabsa Aficion

Smoked at: West Chester, Ohio

Aganorsa Leaf Tabsa Aficion is a Nicaraguan puro with an oily wrapper with barely noticeable seams and veins. The band is electric black adorned with a gold border and a centered circle with an arm holding tobacco leaves. The brand name “Aganorsa Leaf” is on one side. “TABSA” appears on the other side. The vitola names in this series have some Buddhist back story.

Cedar, mossy earth, dark chocolate, dark roast coffee, and pepper. An occasional taste of berries, vegetal, roasted nuts and cabinet spices sneak into the background of the first third. Some complexity was initially building, although the flavors never added, subtracted or changed from the end of the first third to the end of the smoke. For the most part, the dominant flavors are wood, earth, leather, coffee. But the flavors, though balanced really lacked complexity and transitions. I found them flat and incomplete from midway through the first third. This stick is medium bodied and strength.

I have to give this cigar its props for construction. The draw is open with just the right amount of resistance, smoke poured out from the first puffs. And light &dark grey ash stacked and held well. The only downside was a crooked burn line that needed several touchups to straighten out.

Given the Buddhist back story to the name chosen for the cigar, Aficion probably translates from Sanskrit to “very average cigar.”