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[Connoisseur Kim]

10 hours ago, JohnS said:

Hoyo de Monterrey Double Coronas ROE Jul 2016

How often do we get the chance to light up a Double Corona? Not often, I'd bet, with the demands of modern life, 2 to 2-and-a-half hours to set aside and reflect on a cigar can be considered a luxury in terms of time. Yet, every time I do so I invariably find I have no regrets in regards to the cost to my time, this Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona delivered on flavour, body and strength.

I'd like to thank @wineguy for gifting me this cigar to review. This was mild to mild-medium bodied, nuanced in flavours and easy to retrohale throughout. Unlike other popular Hoyo De Monterrey regular production cigars such as the Epicure No.1 and No.2, this had minimal light cocoa. Instead it had a core cedar, light cream and clove combination, together with some vanilla sweetness here and there and spice on the edges.

After the midway point of the cigar that cloved spice really started to dominate the flavours. It was still smoking exceptionally until the point I nubbed it well into the final third, however, I would have preferred less cloved spice and more cedar, vanilla and cream texture to the cigar. Nevertheless, this Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona was quite a good cigar and with more age I envisage it will only get better.

If you get the chance to get a 50 cab, and you enjoy Hoyo de Monterrey as a marca, or you don't mind a Punch Double Corona (which can be similarly woody, just more so) I don't think you'd regret adding the HdM Double Corona as an acquisition to your humidor.

DCs are absolutely great realexing CC unless you puff them in harsh cold windy weather @JohnS ??️?️?❄️☃️!

[Paladin865]

A simple mid week cigar

Vegas Robaina Famosos

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[Raskol]

C&C time. PSD4 (2014) from our host.

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[RDB]

Here’s another 2014 PSD4... but it’s meh. In fact this box (TUP SEP 14) has been a real disappointment. I guess I’ve smoked eight or so and they are all weedy, ashy and thin in flavour. By contrast I have fabulous boxes of Partagas Lusi’s (16&18), Shorts (18) and E2s (18) on the go. You win some, you lose some.

[CampDelta369]

MC#5 with some construction issues. Had to abandon ship. 

[Bijan]

My first PSE2.

Nowhere near as intense as I expected for the size. Just a nice pleasant smoke and I smoked it pretty fast at almost exactly one hour smoke time.

 

[JohnS]

H. Upmann Sir Winston EOS Jul 2019

For a cigar just on 12 months old, the H.Upmann Sir Winston surely can exude class amongst its peers. This had all the hallmarks of a typical quality Sir Winston; coffee, nut, H.Upmann shortbread and cream with a cedar spine throughout.

Unlike more potent H.Upmann offerings such as the Magnum series, H. Upmann No.2 and Petit Corona, I've found the Sir Winston more approachable when young, but even more desirable with age.

What a great way to spend up to 2 hours, enjoying a churchill-sized cigar such as this one!

[Shatner's Bassoon]

RASS REG JUL 19

 

[sw15825]

Bolivar Inmensas. TEB FEB 08. Beautifully, aged Bolivar... 

[sw15825]

18 hours ago, Markspring1978 said:

Punch SS1 from 2008. Outstanding! Why they discontinued these is not only a head scratcher, but an enormous shame. 

Shame, but here's why imho. This cigar, along with th SS 2, Black Prince, RS 11 and 12's, Petit coronas del Punch. Punch was decimated. So sad, but I feel these deletions were in their plan to make new releases, RE's and LE's and create a rarity of them, charging 2 to 3 times the price. People will pay so much more for new things. One great rating in Cigar Aficionado, and charge big $$. I.e., look at the Rio De Seco. I want to try but cummo'n , but thats just me. So, I like new things too, but a shame the way its gone since the mid 2000's. Chopping almost everything that a lot of regular smokers liked. Classics along with anything under a 50 Rg., save the minutos. PC's, coronas, long and skinnys, unless its Cohiba, poof and gone. I'm sure its all in the #'s, what earns the most $ for the company holders. To hell with any loyalty to the old smokers.... ?

[Puros Y Vino]

A nice Punch 48 for a walk. Smoking way better than I remember 

 

[FatherOfPugs]

Monte PE ARG MAY 14 this evening with some sparkling water. This box has aged nicely.

[Happy2BeHere]

Best way to celebrate scoring a PSP/HQ Famosos box on 24:24?  With one of the PSP/HQ Famosos that got you hooked the last go around 

[BigGuns]

Just like Pisa....

[havanaclub]

Rott EOL ENE 20


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[Habana Mike]

 

These have turned the corner!

[UpInSmoak]

Siglo II - 2013 I think...

first half was kind of meh, almost pitched it.  Dramatic change in the back half, nubbed and burnt the finger tips!  

[JayHabanos]

Trinidad - Reyes


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[Raskol]

C&C time. BRC (2018) - 24:24

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[Deeg]

Smoked not only my first Monsdale tonight, but my first Cuban custom - thanks to the generosity of @jsummers157.  From mid-2018 - a beautiful cigar which produced masses of smoke and burned spot-on - impeccable construction.  Flavor-wise it was quite unlike any production cigar I've smoked (maybe just a hint of Sir Winston in the DNA), though it did sort of put me in mind of an older style of Cuban cigar. 

Initially I picked up a lot of chocolate and a very distinct tart citrus which I strongly associate with old-style Habanos twang.  That was soon joined by a strong buttery note, and those were the dominant flavors over the course of the development - certainly it was one of the most buttery cigars I've smoked.  Over the development there was a hint of caramel, a brief hit of intense dried fruit in the first third which struck like a lightning bolt and never returned.  Salt (salted butter) soon joined the party, and a deep woodiness became prominent.  In the final third a floral note and the wood became less oak and more cedar, along with a dry cocoa powder.

I had the sense that it was burning faster than I expected, but it lasted about 80 minutes, which I guess is spot-on for a lonsdale.  All in all a really interesting and complex smoke, very rich and very unique.   

 

[Doctorossi]

Nice review, Deeg. Since it was your first Monsdale, I was reading along, thinking "Will he pick up on the butter note?" I'm a regular-production guy to the core, but Monsdales are the exception that proves my rule. 

[Deeg]

Just now, Doctorossi said:

Nice review, @Deeg. Since it was your first Monsdale, I was reading along, thinking "Will he pick up on the butter note?" I'm a regular-production guy to the core, but Monsdales are the exception that proves my rule. 

Thanks!  It was a very complex and classy cigar, but if I were to pick one flavor profile that stands out, it was butter.  Not so much that it dominated (the balance was pretty good) but that it's so unusual to get that much butter in a cigar.

Jeremy sent me a nice little assortment, so I have a few others to muse on - Alex and Hammy cigars.

[Paso]

On 9/16/2020 at 7:35 AM, BlueRidgeFly said:

I have a box of the same, had the first from it recently and it was meh. Was hoping that was just a bad one... still hoping!

Rest it and then dry box it. Good luck!

[Paso]

PSD4 OMU NOV19

quite average smoke