CORE ZERO INDIE SESENTA REVIEW
Cigar: Indie Sesenta (6 x 60)
Company: Core Zero
Wrapper: Sumatran
Binder: Nicaraguan?
Filler: Nicaraguan?
Price: $7.50 (box of 20 $150)
Acquired: CATS Fest 2015
Elements: Back Porch / Woodford Reserve / Staropramen Lager
Our first mini-review here on “Beyond The Pod”! This is a place where we will occasionally feature quick thoughts on cigars or beverages that we experience outside the realm of the TNCC podcast. The photos won’t be as slick and professional as you’re accustomed to seeing on the website (sorry) but hopefully you’ll get an idea of what the cigar’s all about and the impression it makes on us.
A few nights before we showcased Core Zero’s Metal cigar back in Episode 14 of the podcast, I smoked the only other offering from the company in the form of their Indie line. The Indie Sesenta is a big heavy cigar which personally I’m a fan of while others in our crew simply don’t care for the larger ring gauge. Girly men, every single one of them.
I picked up a very heavy scent of barnyard and sweet tobacco on the prelight sniff. A small chunk of tobacco wrapper peeled off the foot of the cigar while removing the lower band but that proved to be no big deal as I was immediately BLASTED with spice and pepper upon toasting the stogie. Didn’t see that coming!
This totally caught me off guard as I’m accustomed to a rather gentle NPR-type experience from my beloved Sumatran wrapped stogies. I don’t mind being thrown for a loop though, boring and predictable can often be the downfall of a cigar in my opinion (again, see my thoughts on the Metal here). The ash burned uniformly razor sharp and super slowly from the get go. The pepper died down fairly fast with the first 1/3 mainly dominated by a nice mild nutty profile. At the halfway point the Indie was still dominated by the nutty flavor with some of that nice natural Sumatran sweetness finally finding its way to the party. The burn line continued to impress as well.
I lost a long impressive ash going into the final third of this fine stick. The last act featured a lot of spice once again only this time it was extremely well balanced with the sweetness that was absent at the beginning.
Not boring or predictable in the slightest, the Indie Sesenta was thoroughly enjoyable and might just have some folks rethinking their bias against larger ring cigars… maybe. While Core Zero’s Metal maduro was not in my wheelhouse, after smoking the Indie I’m curious to sample their new Mexican San Andres wrapped cigar that’s supposedly debuting later this year.
Core Zero Cigars can be ordered online at their webstore.
