Perez-Carrillo Encore Black

Encore Black turns the Encore formula toward Connecticut Broadleaf: a dark Broadleaf wrapper over a Mexican San Andrés binder and three‑region Nicaraguan filler. The leaf receives extended fermentation and aging to deepen sweetness and richness, and releases have favored pressed formats—including an oval/box‑pressed Robusto and the Bulwarks Perfecto—that accentuate the wrapper’s power. Flavor leans dark: cocoa and toasted oak up front, earth and mineral notes through the middle, and a steady pepper bite on the retrohale with intermittent cream and Broadleaf sweetness to round the edges. Texture can be slightly gritty or leathery at moments, giving the cigar a chewy, tannic backbone that the pressed formats only emphasize.