Cornelius & Anthony Senor Esugars is named after owner Stephen Bailey's pet dog and translates into English as 'Mr. Sugars'. This boutique cigar continues the studio's reputation for releasing crowd-pleasing creations without pulling any punches, and the hot pepper retrohales alone are worth the experience.
The San Andres wrapper makes this Cornelius & Anthony's first Mexican-wrapped cigar, giving Senor Esugars a dark appearance and a light oily complexion. Inside, a United States binder and Nicaraguan-aged long-filler tobaccos combine perfectly to create an absolute gem of a stick.
A take-no-prisoners flavor profile varyingly delivers tastes of cocoa, coffee, and caramel, with plenty of spice and those fiery retrohales. We'll look in more detail at how the flavor profile progresses later in this Cornelius & Anthony Senor Esugars cigar review, after running through some of the need-to-know cigar stats.
With boxes of 20 available to buy from Cigars.com, this is one cigar that deserves to be sampled and is very likely to become a permanent fixture in your humidor.
Brand overview
Cornelius & Anthony Cigars have become known for delivering time and time again, with a portfolio of handmade premium cigars that seem to just keep growing. Construction is consistently top-shelf and each new release has its own unique flavor profile, making the whole brand worth exploring.
Some of the most successful launches include the Cuban-style Cornelius, the Brazilian-wrapped Daddy Mac, and the flavorful Venganza with its profile of cedar, cinnamon, caramel, and black cherry. These are cigar lovers cigars, rated medium to medium-full on strength and body, and the perfect companion when you really want to be transported to another world.
In this Cornelius & Anthony Senor Esugars Gordo cigar review, we'll be focusing on the 6" Gordo vitola, which has a ring size of 60 and a typical smoke time of a little over an hour and a half.
Cigar specs
- Country of Origin: Nicaragua
- Strength: Full
- Wrapper: San Andrés Mexican
- Binder: United States
- Filler: Nicaragua
- Smoke Time: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Sizes Available:
- Cornelius & Anthony Senor Esugars Gordo (6 × 60)
Cold Draw
That dark San Andres wrapper gives Cornelius & Anthony Senor Esugars Gordo a unique appearance among the company's creations, with a slightly oily complexion similar to that of roasted coffee beans. There are hints of coffee on the cold draw too, combined with leather and freshly sawn cedarwood.
Explore the draw further and you'll start to detect more sweetness, the rich and rounded sweetness of dark brown sugar, and a hint of pepper. That pepper is a promise that Senor Esugars will keep in his retrohales, which deliver significant heat throughout the entire smoking experience.
Flavor profile: first third
Out of the starting blocks, Senor Esugars delivers all of the flavors detected in the cold draw. There's a sweetness like coffee with plenty of brown sugar, an element of cocoa making the coffee into a mocha, and a sprinkling of peppery spice. The cedar is still there too and the cigar takes on a dual profile, with sweet mocha coming through on the draw and powerful peppery cedar on the retrohales.
Moving toward the second third, the cocoa and chocolate are joined by dried fruit and that pepper continues to punch through the retrohales. If you're enthusiastic about retrohaling this is a cigar you really must experience. If it's a little overwhelming, hold the smoke in your mouth for a moment before retrohaling, or retrohale a smaller portion so you can savor the pepper spice to its fullest extent.
Flavor profile: second third
The dried fruit flavor continues into the second third, especially if you smoke Senor Esugars when he is still relatively young. During long-term storage, the fruit may fade a little, bringing the cedar and pepper to the front more, and this gives you a great opportunity to choose between a more fruity or more woody flavor profile.
Flavor profile: final third
Sweetness blooms through the final third and adds new complexity to the overall profile of the appropriately named Senor Esugars. The smoke continues to pack considerable heat, with a red chili pepper character that's not unlike hot sauce.
That mocha blend of tastes separates back out into its component parts of coffee, cocoa, and chocolate, with an earthy personality behind the coffee and cocoa beans. The dried fruit finally begins to fade fully but continues to hint at the sweetness in the background as you approach the end of Senor Esugars.
Conclusion
Cornelius & Anthony Senor Esugars Gordo is a fantastic smoke and one that long-time cigar aficionados will really relish. While the retrohales are peppery and at times burning hot, you can control them, and that makes Senor Esugars a uniquely customizable smoking experience that also changes with the age of the stick.
Buy today from Cigars.com to experience Senor Esugars first-hand, and to start the aging process in your own humidor for even more new experiences in the future.
