Alec Bradley Safe Keepings Gordo - Box of 24

The largest format in Alec Bradley's Safe Keepings line, and the one that gives this rediscovered blend the most room to develop. At 6 x 60, the Gordo takes the same all-Nicaraguan puro construction found across the collection and stretches it into a longer, wider, more gradually unfolding session.

The blend is unchanged from the rest of the line: a Nicaraguan Habano-seed wrapper and binder, wrapped around Criollo '98 long-filler tobacco from Jalapa, Condega, and Estelí, handcrafted at Oliva's Tabolisa facility in Nicaragua. What the 60 ring gauge changes is pacing and proportion. With considerably more filler volume relative to the wrapper's surface area, the smoke unfolds more slowly here than in the narrower Robusto or Toro, giving each phase of the flavor more time to settle in before the next one arrives.

Buyers who have worked through this specific size describe a genuinely rewarding arc: a light first third built around pepper and nuttiness, giving way to strong dried fruit and cacao notes as the smoke progresses, alongside the brand's own description of salted earth, cocoa, and lush spice running throughout. Where reviewers have found the smaller Safe Keepings sizes occasionally settle into a flatter, more one-note back half, the Gordo's larger volume of tobacco seems to give the blend's natural complexity, savory, piquant, and gradually sweeter as it burns down, more room to actually develop rather than fade. Construction across the line has been consistently praised, and at this size that translates into a long, steady burn well suited to an extended session.

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Flavor progression:

1. Opening: a light first third built around black pepper and nuttiness, with salted earth and spice settling in alongside
2. Mid-smoke: dried fruit and cacao notes strengthen considerably, cocoa deepening as the body moves toward medium to full
3. Close: the richer fruit and cocoa character carries through the final third, with spice and pepper lingering on the retrohale

Key Features:

1. Brand: Alec Bradley
2. Line: Safe Keepings
3. Origin Story: Rediscovered from founder Alan Rubin's personal blend book
4. Factory: Tabacalera Oliva de Nicaragua S.A. (Tabolisa), Estelí, Nicaragua
5. Country of Origin: Nicaragua (all-Nicaraguan puro)
6. Wrapper: Nicaraguan Habano-seed
7. Binder: Nicaraguan Habano-seed
8. Filler: Nicaraguan Criollo '98 (Jalapa, Condega, Estelí)
9. Construction: Handmade
10. Vitola: Gordo
11. Size: 6 inches x 60 ring gauge
12. Strength: Medium to Full
13. Flavor Profile: Black pepper, nuts, salted earth, dried fruit, cacao, cocoa, spice
14. Box Count: 24 cigars
15. Price per Cigar: approximately $15.19