Wrapper: Honduran Criollo
Binder: Honduran
Filler: Honduran
Size: 4.5 x 40 “Epee”
Body: Medium
Price: $6.00

This is not a well-known stick. It was developed by Dave Topper, an Alec Bradley rep and Tom Sullivan. Sullivan distributes cigars for Alliance Cigar. The intent was to throw their hat into the New Breed blending style. It is a limited run cigar. It is also a Honduran puro.

Jason Harding of BestCigarPrices.com asked me to review the brand but especially wanted me to review the little fire cracker: the Epee.
The cigars are made at the Raices Cubanas factory in Danli, Honduras.

I got these cigars a couple weeks ago and the first one I tried was a spice bomb. So I gave it some time to rest and here we go.

Construction varies. Some sticks are solid as rocks and others are a bit soft. The chocolate brown wrapper is mottled with lots of small veins. The single cap is well done. The sticks are oily and smooth as glass.

I clip the cap and find aromas of cedar and spice.

Due to the size of the cigar, this will be a short review. It took me 15 minutes to smoke the first one.
Time to light up.

The first puffs have a nice sweetness to them. That giant blast of pepper I got from the first one doesn’t show its nasty head this time around. Clearly, these little sticks need a week or two before ready to smoke.

Smoke pours from the foot as if it were a standard sized cigar. The black pepper begins to increase. There is a nice earthiness. And cedar is a prominent flavor.

The burn goes wavy on me in short order. I fix it.

Creaminess appears. The blenders intended for this small stick not to waste any time getting to full flavored. There is also a marzipan element that matches the creaminess nicely.

A sweet caramel flavor comes aboard. The body is classic medium. And then at the one inch mark, all hell breaks loose as the cigar becomes a bona fide flavor bomb. Creaminess, cedar, marzipan, caramel, and earthiness are in high gear.

Jason sent me a “Meteor Hammer”…which is a 6.5 x 52 Perfecto. I would like to review it in a couple of weeks and compare.

This cigar is certainly in the running to be considered a New Breed type of blend. It has all the finesse that the other boys with tattoos are doing.
The power gets stronger at the mid-section. But the flavors don’t diminish.

This is a great stick for errands. I always hesitate taking a small cigar, like a robusto on my honey do’s because I am always afraid I might waste it. This 4.5 x 40 is perfect. You don’t have to stoop to a small crappy cigar just because of time constraints.

The last half is full of those wonderful flavors. The cigar becomes complex and balanced.

You sort of need a roach clip to nub this stick. My thoughts are placing it in my pipe when it gets too small to smoke. And I prefer not to waste any of it.
If you are looking for a small stick for those unique situations where time is of the essence, this is the cigar for you.

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