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Cigar: Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatra
Size: Ebano, 6x45 (Lonsdale)
First things first, Happy Canada Day to all CP-ers!
Executive Summary: Excellently constructed full-flavored cigar, with complex aromas and rich flavor. Recommended. 8.5/10
Background: Dark Sumatra is a full-bodied line extension to the Villazon Hoyo de Monterrey line. It features a dark sumatra leaf wrapper, reportedly aged in palm leaves, and a new filler blend. I received this cigar in my first CP trade (thank you so much - and you know who you are), but a box of 25 goes for $69 at JR.
First impression: The cigar's cedar-wrapped and well-dressed - slightly revised classic Hoyo de Monterrey band, then secondary black-and-gold bands at top and bottom of the cedar wrapper. Wrapper leaf is a dark, dark brown, and very smooth, with few, very small veins. Texture is slightly toothy, slightly oily. Cigar is dead straight and well constructed, slighly soft when pressed. No lumps.
Prelight: Cuts easily with double-bladed cutter. Smells of dark chocolate. Draw is slightly tight. Filler is quite dark brown as well.
Construction/burn: Burn is straight across and razor sharp. Ash is light grey, both outside and in. First ash was after 1-1/4 inch and was quite solid. Draw has a perfect amount of resistance and very smooth.
Flavor/Aroma: Prevailing odors are coffee and dark chocolate, rich and dense in intensity. Some peppery spice, but no bitterness whatsoever. A little coffee acidity on the tongue. After about an inch and a half, a little sweetness comes in, briefly, and the spice changes character, pepper to cinnamon. Going into the last third, a burnt-marshmallow taste comes in and the spice becomes more peppery.
Good balance between flavors is maintained throughout. It starts out medium in intensity, then proceeds to full power by the start of the 2nd third. The last third is very full.
Interestingly enough, it doesn't appear to share many of the earthy aromas of a "standard" Hoyo. Not that this is a bad thing; this is a very good full-flavored cigar.
Time elapsed: 1 hr 20 mins
Size: Ebano, 6x45 (Lonsdale)
First things first, Happy Canada Day to all CP-ers!
Executive Summary: Excellently constructed full-flavored cigar, with complex aromas and rich flavor. Recommended. 8.5/10
Background: Dark Sumatra is a full-bodied line extension to the Villazon Hoyo de Monterrey line. It features a dark sumatra leaf wrapper, reportedly aged in palm leaves, and a new filler blend. I received this cigar in my first CP trade (thank you so much - and you know who you are), but a box of 25 goes for $69 at JR.
First impression: The cigar's cedar-wrapped and well-dressed - slightly revised classic Hoyo de Monterrey band, then secondary black-and-gold bands at top and bottom of the cedar wrapper. Wrapper leaf is a dark, dark brown, and very smooth, with few, very small veins. Texture is slightly toothy, slightly oily. Cigar is dead straight and well constructed, slighly soft when pressed. No lumps.
Prelight: Cuts easily with double-bladed cutter. Smells of dark chocolate. Draw is slightly tight. Filler is quite dark brown as well.
Construction/burn: Burn is straight across and razor sharp. Ash is light grey, both outside and in. First ash was after 1-1/4 inch and was quite solid. Draw has a perfect amount of resistance and very smooth.
Flavor/Aroma: Prevailing odors are coffee and dark chocolate, rich and dense in intensity. Some peppery spice, but no bitterness whatsoever. A little coffee acidity on the tongue. After about an inch and a half, a little sweetness comes in, briefly, and the spice changes character, pepper to cinnamon. Going into the last third, a burnt-marshmallow taste comes in and the spice becomes more peppery.
Good balance between flavors is maintained throughout. It starts out medium in intensity, then proceeds to full power by the start of the 2nd third. The last third is very full.
Interestingly enough, it doesn't appear to share many of the earthy aromas of a "standard" Hoyo. Not that this is a bad thing; this is a very good full-flavored cigar.
Time elapsed: 1 hr 20 mins
