Size: 6 x 54

Wrapper:� Habano

Filler: Nicarauga (Jalapa, Esteli, Condega)

Binder: Nicarauga

Body:� Full

This cigar comes to us via Sam Leccia from Nub Cigars, and happens to also be his new child in the cigar world.� Sam sure has been a busy person, releasing new profiles for his Nub line as well as creating this new beauty in Maduro and Habano. He sent me, as well as a few other review sites, a stick of this to review. This powerhouse comes in with a triple Ligero, or top leaves of the tobacco plant.� These leaves get the most sunlight and they are known for being very aromatic as well as containing a lot of oils that the tobacco plant produces and usually does not create the best burning or even smoking cigar. These things combined are known to make a very strong smoke and are commonly used as long filler to create the base flavor of the cigar rather than becoming the wrapper. The reason for this is that the Ligero, being filled with more oils and seeing more light causes it to be stronger, and burn slower than the Seco or Volado portion of the plant, not to mention the two years plus required to mature the leaf.

Although we may expect this tail kicking, Sam – as always – has to keep us on our toes. Using a triple fermentation process (similar to the Cuban Cohiba brand) the cigar responds to us with a very smooth, mild spice. Sam did use more than just Ligero also, about 82% of the stick is Ligero, but with the triple fermentation – the smoothness can not be matched.

This is one of those cigars that you can just feel seeping into your system while smoking it, but never becomes overpowering.� I frequently keep cigars in my mouth while I smoke them, and I can honestly say my mouth had a slight tingle to it by the 3/4 mark. The flavors of Coffee, Wood just take over the foreground while a nice leather and semi-sweet notes would always remain, just changing in their strengths and weaknesses. I attempted to retrohale this bad boy, and well, I’m just not that good yet, haha! Burned like hell.

I have smoked three of these to date and as of this time, have yet to encounter any type of draw or construction issues with the exception of one which cracked near the head, but it only had about a half inch left of life anyway so I can not complain. All in all, at 6-8 bucks a pop, if your into full body cigars or if your wanting to expand from a medium body rut, give the Cain a try, I guarantee� you’ll be talking about it after!