ESPINOSA KNUCKLE SANDWICH HABANO | CIGAR REVIEW

SEPTEMBER 7, 2025 - PHIL KURUT, COMEDY - CIGARS - MUSIC

ESPINOSA KNUCKLE SANDWICH HABANO TORO H (6 x 54)

WRAPPER: ECUADORIAN HABANO

BINDER: NICARAGUA

FILLER: NICARAGUA

Super smooth draw, hosting mixed nuts, earth, spice, and a floating sugary sweetness. Spice nestles into the finish with light coffee. Cashew butter and earth on the retrohale. Quite a pleasant start.

Plenty of smoke on the exhale, and it pours from the foot.

The wrapper develops a crack about an inch from the burn line. The culprits appear to be a piece of the wrapper that got compromised somewhere along the process from the roller’s table to me and a slightly tight pack. Going to bring the pace down a little to help relieve it, and, hopefully, we’ll burn right through. Stay tuned.

Crack or no, that’s a mighty fine burn. Apparently, I’m a cowboy…with a slight whistle.

Creamy milk chocolate makes an appearance as this Knuckle Sandwich starts to burn through the split. Let’s not celebrate quite yet. I hate to jinx it.

Burned through the initial crack and two other small cracks that developed separately. There was a major crack that developed moving into the final third, but it burned through that one as well. Aside from having to navigate those, it was a rather nice experience.

SMOKE TIME: 2 hrs. 7 mins.

RATING: 3 / 4 - I didn’t completely jinx it.