The Foundry's Compounds, Elements and Musings Carbon measures 5 1/2x60 with a nice dark brown, smooth wrapper. The wrapper has a few visible veins, and a very unique band (one covering a good portion of the cigar, and another at the foot). From Cigar Aficionado: "Foundry's Compounds, Elements and Musings line is also an exercise in creative packaging and interpretation. Giannini chose 12 items from the periodic table of the elements and gave them new meaning in the form of cigars." General Cigar Co. will be releasing 12 new lines consisting of 18 new blends that will be divided to sell half exclusively in brick and mortars and the other half sold online/catalogs.
When you get the cigar lit up, you get a very rich black pepper flavor on the palate. It's safe to say that the black pepper is overpowering, but enjoyable. On the finish, you get a nice creamy, earth flavor but no spice. Through the 1/3 point, the cigar has a dead even burn, a perfect draw, and great smoke output.
The 2/3's point brings a little change to the flavoring. The creamy flavor that you get on the finish has moved to the initial draw to accompany the black pepper flavor. The earth on the finish is still there with a little sweetness. There's a lot of flavor changes/movement so far in this cigar, which make it extremely enjoyable. Through this point, the burn is still dead even, the draw is still nice and easy, and it's still producing good smoke.
3/3's to the end stay the same as the 2/3 point. The black pepper is still on the initial draw, but it's more mild than before. Another great stick from Foundry Cigars. I definitely recommend picking this up at some point.
Stogie Rite score: 95
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