Asylum 13 Medulla
- Origin Nicaragua
- Wrapper Maduro
- Binder Honduran Corojoa
- Filler Honduran
- Strength Medium
Christian Eiroa of CLE cigars has a kind of side hustle in the cigar business. While he focuses most of his time growing his excellent CLE and Eiroa brands, he shows a bit of his dark side in a brand called Asylum. He created this brand as a separate entity from CLE/Eiroa with his longtime friend Tom Lazuka. Tom loved large, full body cigars and wanted to have a line that was all about those big ring beauties. Beyond that, when Tom traveled as a cigar salesman in the midwest, he noticed that big ring cigars were always out of stock and there wasn’t a large selection of them. When they created the Asylum line, they figured the bigger the better. They have cigars that go up to a gigantic 80 ring gauge. As the brand has evolved, they’ve added new versions of Asylum, and now they offer cigars as small as a 50 ring gauge too.
The Asylum 13 Medulla Maduro is a medium-to-full strength cigar crafted to Tom Lazuka’s palate. It is offered in either round of box-pressed versions that feature the same blend. The blend utilizes Honduran-grown tobaccos for the filler along with a Jamastran Corojo binder also grown in Honduras. Topping the blend is a beautiful chocolate brown Maduro wrapper from San Andreas, Mexico. This big ring beauty is bursting with flavors of cocoa, espresso, and pepper along with hints of earth and leather. If you’re looking for big ring cigars with lots of flavor, Asylum should be on your radar.