Guardian of the Farm

Cerberus presents Aganorsa’s Corojo 2012 wrapper over Aganorsa binder and filler with a deliberate twist—a single medio tiempo priming in the filler to push sweetness and body. The result is a wood‑forward smoke: toasted cedar and oak with earthy underpinnings, baking spice and black pepper on the retrohale, and intermittent dried‑fruit notes—raisin or sweet‑bread—from the medio tiempo. Secondary touches of cocoa, leather and light cream appear in some vitolas; transitions are steady and pepper and earth tend to linger into the finish. Construction is typically well finished and silky; a few reviewers noted a slightly tight draw on isolated sticks, but overall the line reads like Aganorsa experimenting with priming and wrapper selection to add depth without unnecessary heft.

NightWatch brings Aganorsa’s own shade‑grown Corojo maduro into the Guardian lineup, pairing it with Corojo binder and a mix of Corojo and Criollo fillers from Jalapa and Estelí. The cigar opens peppery and earthy, with mocha and coffee soon joining cedar and dry cocoa; black and white pepper show on the retrohale and the texture trends meaty and slightly oily. The vitola mix—Rambo, box‑pressed JJ, Campeon with a 109 head and Orpheus—keeps the range interesting while the farm‑grown wrapper roots NightWatch firmly in the puro category.

Seleccion de Warped pairs Kyle Gellis’s Warped sensibility with Aganorsa’s estate Corojo ’99. The blend—Corojo ’99 wrapper and binder with a Corojo/Criollo filler mix—favors nutty, baking‑spice characters: almond, nutmeg and cinnamon backed by black pepper and a cedar/earth base. Texture starts lighter and gains cream and light coffee mid‑smoke while pepper and dry wood ride the finish. The collaboration highlights estate leaf and classic Nicaraguan puro structure, presented often in slim, classically proportioned vitolas that accentuate the blend’s focused profile.