Baccarat Barber Pole

The Baccarat Gordo Barber Pole cigars utilize a dark and oily Connecticut Broadleaf maduro wrapper intertwined with a lighter Connecticut Shade leaf that was made to resemble a barber pole. I’ve smoked a couple of Barber Pole style cigars from Alec Bradley’s annual filthy Hooligan series, but this is a regular production line, and a first ever offering from Baccarat. This big 60 ring Gordo issued a medium bodied smoke with flavors of leather, cocoa, wood, and chocolate, from the broadleaf maduro wrapper, and a creamy tobacco sweetness and hints of cedar when the flame reached the lighter Connecticut shade leaf. Baccarat has always been a smoke the offered classically smooth flavors, but with Gordo Barber Pole the company really stepped out of their comfort zone to provide a whole new dimension of remarkably rich and complex flavors. Try some, because the Barber Pole experience is one that every serious cigar aficionado needs to try.