Impact
Appearance 3.9 / 5
| Color: | corduroy brown |
| Surface: | roughly refined |
| Temper: | 2 tone – part flat, other part shellac |
| Snap: | all business |
Aroma 6.9 / 10
fierce - big tobacco, volcanic ash, dry brush, burnt corn kernels, oats, over-brewed coffee grains, poppy seeds, fermented almost balsamic grape, faint banana
Mouthfeel 11.2 / 15
| Texture: | fractures dry then liquifies |
| Melt: | molten slow |
Flavor 38.1 / 50
drops cereal -> coffee -> swings into white grape -> currant -> wildly sweet blackberry spike crossed by lime, mashes up -> rum then hums along to bitter underside of almond / poppy -> tapers off tobacco
Quality 16.8 / 20
Acids push the needles up & only mild bittering but very dark tone pervades. Rambunctious & unruly wild child with less than a drop of the sweet charm school in its 60% little brother. CBS ~4:5:4