La Palina White Label Connecticut

The La Palina White Label may be one of the most mouthwatering Connecticut shade wrapped cigars you will ever smoke. And while that wrapper may no longer be grown down in Honduras, the harvest from Ecuador seen on the outside of this stick is equally on point. Beneath this outer leaf is a Nicaraguan binder, and then some potent Piloto Cubano leaf from the same country serving as the filler.

As things start to amp up, tastes of buttered toast, mild baking spices, and a bit of brown sugar start to surface. There's a tingle of white pepper and sweetgrass mixed in there too, along with the floral aromatic of crape myrtle mixed with wildflowers. In the center of the cigar you will encounter a honeycomb flavor and sweetness, which sits perfectly atop some buttered toast notes. Pushing the boundary between food and fermented tobacco leaf, this blend transcends into a rounder, lasting flavor profile as the cigar hits the second third. At which point it becomes more cedar-forward, and favors darker tobacco aftertastes while remaining devoid of any intensity outside of some nicotine.