ADVentura The Royal Return King's Gold

With three blends under the ADVentura belt, McKay and Ventura really wanted to stretch their creative capabilities and use their knowledge of great tobacco to create something truly special. That "something special" has shown itself to be the Royal Return, a collection of two different blends with the same emphasis behind them: knowledge and time. The two blends feature tobaccos that underwent fermentation for up to 5 years, not including the resting the cigar does after it's been rolled!

ADVentura's The Royal Return King's Gold is somewhat of a contrast to its sister blend, the Queen's Pearls. Instead of a Connecticut-shade wrapper, the King's Gold uses a toothy Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper, sitting atop a Mexican San Andres binder, and a long-filler combination of Nicaraguan, Dominican, and American tobaccos. With a blend like that, you'd expect quite a bit of punch, but the King's Gold nails the balance with notes of cocoa, earth, nuttiness, wood, and soft pepper.