Definition Cigars “The Chairman”

Purchased: Single Toro (6 X 54?)
Store: Cigar Art, Dallas, TX
Price: $13.00
Buy again? Yes.
Box worthy? Yes.
Experience Rating: 97

Another day in Dallas, TX, another Definition cigar. This time it’s the “The Chairman.” Wow! What a completely different take than the “Equalizer” I smoked yesterday! Where the Equalizer was silky smooth, the Chairman has an underlying spice accompanying the richness of its flavor profile. But one thing they both have in common is a shifting, kaleidoscope-like flavor profile. This is my jam!

At light-up, and burning through the end cap, the cigar hit me with red and white pepper spice. But accompanying that was a pronounced note of marzipan and a hint of cedar. The finish was surprisingly clean considering the copious amounts of white smoke. There was a bit of a nicotine hit, but only enough to make me mellow.

Once I burned through the end cap, the cigar wasted no time in going immediately to medium+ strength with an incredible array of flavors: green tea, malted milk balls, and cream, layered on top of the marzipan and cedar. As I got further into the stick, a foundation of oak filled out the background, with some leather and black pepper added to the mix up front. As the cigar loaded, a light simple syrup-like flavor emerged.

Malt and cream exchanged places with a savory, meaty, earthy set throughout the smoke. It was rather uncanny. This is a cigar that for the astute aficionado will keep them on their toes. I love a cigar that constantly shifts. It keeps things exciting!

While the malt and cream and savory elements do their switcheroo, a subtle sweetness pervades in the background and on the finish. It’s barely detectable but it’s there. By the time I got about an inch and a half in, the strength dialed down to a solid medium+ with a a medium+ body and stays there throughout the first half.

By the second half, red and white pepper spice kicked in again, but it only lasted a few puffs, then gave way to graham cracker with a leather component and amazingly, a touch of soy sauce. Deeper into the second half, malt and cream add to the sweetness and combined with the savory elements is reminiscent of eating salted caramel. Yowza!

As I got into the final third, I got a strong hit of oak that immediately subsided into the background but persisted through the end of the smoke, along with fresh cut cedar.

By the end of the smoke, a slight astringency developed, kind of like a Cuban twang. It was very nice. And it wasn’t until the final inch that any coffee showed up but in the form of ground espresso beans, not the liquid. There was absolutely no cacao that I detected in the smoke.

All I can say is WOW! This is yet another stick that just hits for me. I’m now kind of rethinking how I’m going to buy them. I was originally going to buy a box of the The Equalizer, but I think I’m going to buy a few of each so I can cover all the different blends.