Looks like a gimmick, but I decided to give one a try, you know, for St. Paddy’s.

Very smooth maduro/candela barber pole wrapper, good bunch, clean clip, perfect draw. Excellent construction with subtle aromas and flavors.

Easy light, immediate green flavors from the candela leaf in the wrapper. Otherwise mostly mild with some sweetness accompanying the vegetal flavor.

Mottled but firm ash and mostly even burn.

Flavors remain vegetal by 1/3 with some bitterness emerging. Hard purge got rid of most of the bitterness and some deeper tobacco flavors emerged, but overall taste remained very vegetal.

Bitterness returns and continues to build and the cigar is now canoeing badly. Very one-dimensional, fairly unpleasant overall and didn’t make it to half before putting it down. Only recommended to fans of candela wrappers.

Perfect wrapper, good bunch and heavenly fragrances from the wrapper and the foot with a generous draw.

Smoked with a Freetail Pinata Protest red wit brewed with ancho chilis, a perfect match for a sungrown wrapper.

This cigar could be a meal. Initial flavors are peppery toasted tobacco with hints of Milanesa. Razor straight burn and no excessive heat. Lots of smoke to complete the experience.

Firm grey ash held past 1″, I almost always knock the ash off at that point to check the burn, which showed slight coning but perfectly even.

Purged at 2/3 point to mute the heat that had built up, cigar cooled back down nicely. This will be a nubber.

The beer/cigar combination was perfect. 5/5. Joe Bob says check it out!

All Esteli Nicaraguan tobacco in a compact perfecto.

Very attractive dark wrapper. Very tight pre-light draw (perhaps should have cut it higher on the end).

A very tight draw that opened up past the foot taper. Good medium to full flavors. The burn became uneven after the foot opened up, but was fixable with minor corrections with the lighter.

Medium grey but very solid ash as the cigar burned, and the burned opened up nicely after the foot burn passed.

Paired well with a Porter.

Pleasant flavor if a bit one dimensional, and got hot rather quickly.

Draw tightened up again as the cigar began to taper towards the head, and the smoke began to heat up as the draw tightened.

At about 1/4 the smoke and the cigar got a bit too hot to handle so I had to put it down.

Still, an overall pleasant, if short, cigar that I would give a solid 3/5 on the CW scale. Expect more and better from Crux in the future.