The MUWAT Kentucky Fire Cured cigar or KFC is uniquely blended and is collaboration between Drew Estate and Joya de Nicaragua. They are being hand rolled at the Joya factory. Now, the fire-cured process is not new, but putting it into a premium cigar is insane, or is it?? It's intended to give you a unique experience while smoking it because it gives you that real smoky flavor while enjoying the flavors of a normal premium cigar. It has the most fire-cured tobacco in a cigar to date. It's also finished with a fire-cured lead on the wrapper. Now astonishingly, there are two different wrappers. The foot portion is Mexican San Andres and the head is fire cured. The tobacco inside is both Kentucky and Virginia fire cured.

 

At first feel and glance, it's toothy and squishy near the foot but the head is stiff and has no give. It has the look of Drew Estate's Nica Rustica but more rustic and rough. It toasts very well and is nice and smoky with a southern BBQ smell. I taste BBQ, mesquite wood, coffee, meat off the grill, and peach makes an appearance here too. The draw is tight but the burn is flawless. The ash looks like the coals in the bottom of your BBQ grill. It has a definite pipe tobacco taste. This cigar has a very mild to medium flavor profile. It's interesting and I'm not sure how I feel about the smell and taste so far.

 

The midpoint features the same flavors but muddled by an earthy, mossy, and herbaceous flavor very similar taste to a l'atelier. The mesquite and peach taste are not really present anymore. The woody flavor is there but that earthy mossy taste is the star. The burn is good but not flawless. The draw is better now but not great. The meaty grill taste is harmonizing with that woody taste very well in the background. I'm kind of enjoying it now.

 

 

The final third is where the smoky BBQ mesquite taste is back in charge but there is cocoa and that mossy taste is now singing backup. The burn and draw improves some more. The smoke output is FANTASTIC. It tastes like a southern BBQ for sure. I'm definitely getting a strong pipe tobacco taste now with the woody and herbaceous notes singing together like earth, wind, and fire. So, it finishes better than it starts for sure, it offers a good chance of pace in a cigar.

 

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