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Release Date: November 2020
Number of Cigars Smoked For Review: 3
If you’ve ever been to Miami or Tampa and perused the entire cigar retail scene, you’ve inevitably popped into a cigar shop that made its own cigars and had a bunch of unbanded cigars for sale. That is the first thing that comes to mind when looking at the Gran Habano Persian Queen Kiana Barber Pole LE; it’s eye-catching but lacks any sort of banding or attribution to a maker, which I always find to be a bit of a shame. The barber pole is familiar and distinctive, with about a 2-to-1 ratio of the darker Nicaraguan corojo to the lighter Ecuadorian Connecticut from a visual perspective. A few one-off veins create some ridges, though nothing that I would call distracting. The barber pole design seems to be rolled quite well as the seams of the wrappers lay flat, they are evenly spaced and cleanly cut. The cap leaves a little to be desired visually, as while it seems like it’s from the Ecuadorian Connecticut tob