La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero Natural DL700 (6.5×60)

Litto Gomez has one standing instruction for anyone buying the Double Ligero. Eat before you smoke. That is not a marketing line. That is a genuine warning from the man who built this cigar. The Double Ligero concept is exactly what the name says: twice the top-priming Dominican ligero in the filler that any standard blend would allow. Ligero leaves grow at the very top of the tobacco plant, absorbing the most direct sunlight, developing the most oils, the most nicotine, and the most flavor of any leaf on the plant.

Doubling that in a 6.5×60 and wrapping it in Ecuadorian Sumatra sun grown from La Canela is not a subtle decision. The profile delivers black pepper, earth, leather, dark wood, and a slow-building intensity that gains momentum through every third of a smoke that runs close to ninety minutes at a relaxed pace. This is a full-body cigar in the truest, most unambiguous sense of the phrase. Twenty to a box. You have been warned, and warned enthusiastically.