The Intemperance VO 1920 Judas Hole brings RoMa Craft’s Prohibition-inspired Volstead blend into a classic 44-ring-gauge Lonsdale format. It features a dark Ecuadorian Sumatra hybrid wrapper over a Mexican San Andrés binder, with a carefully built filler combination of tobaccos from Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic.

That slimmer ring gauge is particularly well suited to the blend, putting more emphasis on the wrapper and binder while giving the cigar a long, deliberate smoking format. Expect the dense construction and substantial smoke production associated with Fábrica de Tabacos NicaSueño, with the blend generally landing in medium-to-full territory and showing an earthy, woody character with spice and underlying natural sweetness.

The name is pure Prohibition history: a “Judas hole” was the small viewing port in a speakeasy door used to identify whoever was on the other side before letting them in. It’s a fitting name for one of the limited-production vitolas in the VO 1920 line.

Long, lean and distinctly RoMa Craft, the Judas Hole is a great expression of the Volstead blend for smokers who appreciate traditional smaller-ring-gauge cigars and the way those dimensions can change the balance of a blend.