Last year, Dallas-based AKA Cigars introduced the Nth Degree, the company’s take on “a classic maduro.” It was offered in the standard wide array of vitolas the company makes, but with one notable size missing, a lancero. The company has been producing a limited amount of 7 x 38 lanceros in its other blends for a few years, so an Nth Degree lancero seems only natural. It turns out the world would have to wait a year for the size, which is known as the Nth Degree Optimal. It features the updated packaging that the company is beginning to rolling out with larger and thicker bands and an updated box. Nth Degree uses a Mexican San Andrés broadleaf maduro wrapper, Dominican binder and fillers from the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Peru. The goal was to blend a medium-bodied “old school maduro”—one that valued sweetness over strength. The Optimal is the seventh vitola to be added to the line and the only limited size to date. AKA will begin shipping the first 50 boxes of the Optimal later this month and then plans another 100-box shipment for October. Cigar Reviewed: AKA Nth Degree Optimal Country of Origin: Honduras Factory: Agroindustria LAEPE S.A. Wrapper: Mexican Broadleaf Binder: Dominican ...
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