Cigar: Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatra Media Noche
Origin: Honduras
Length: 5.75
Ring: 54
Strength: Medium-Full
Wrapper Color: Dark Brown
Wrapper Type: Ecuador Sumatran
Binder: Connecticut Broadleaf
Filler: HON/NIC/DR
Shape: Parejo
Purchased: JR Cigars
When: July 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.
Where: Mike's Garage
Environment: Breezy, Sunny, 94 degrees
Beverage: Diet Coke Plus
Lighter: Cedar Sleeve
Cut: Double Guillotine
Today, in honor of what would have been my father's 70th birthday, I pulled out a magnificent stogie which I had tucked away in my humidor - the Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatra Media Noche. When Davy and I were getting ready to open our cigar shop in the late 1990s, Dad went with us on a shopping expedition to Northwest Arkansas where we purchased our initial inventory. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Bentonville and bought our inventory from a supplier in Rogers. That was a fun trip!
Pre-light: What a beautiful cigar! Well made, a really fat 54 ring gauge, and packaged in a cedar sleeve - which I used to light this "jewel" ("hoyo" means jewel in Spanish).
Creamy and mellow start with a taste of salty butter and leather on the tip of the tongue. Very strong and very pleasant aroma of cedar from the beginning on. Phenomenal fragrance!
Perfect burn, perfect ash. And what is this distinguished and enigmatic aroma which is developing as I enjoy this cigar? Piñon! Yes, indeed!
The quintessence of the second half is creamy coffee and buttery cedar with only the slightest hint of mild peppery sweetness.
Sweet, spicy finish. Mellow, creamy and cedary to the end.
The Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatra has once again demonstrated to me why it is my absolute favorite cigar!
Origin: Honduras
Length: 5.75
Ring: 54
Strength: Medium-Full
Wrapper Color: Dark Brown
Wrapper Type: Ecuador Sumatran
Binder: Connecticut Broadleaf
Filler: HON/NIC/DR
Shape: Parejo
Purchased: JR Cigars
When: July 6, 2008, 2:30 p.m.
Where: Mike's Garage
Environment: Breezy, Sunny, 94 degrees
Beverage: Diet Coke Plus
Lighter: Cedar Sleeve
Cut: Double Guillotine
Today, in honor of what would have been my father's 70th birthday, I pulled out a magnificent stogie which I had tucked away in my humidor - the Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatra Media Noche. When Davy and I were getting ready to open our cigar shop in the late 1990s, Dad went with us on a shopping expedition to Northwest Arkansas where we purchased our initial inventory. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Bentonville and bought our inventory from a supplier in Rogers. That was a fun trip!
Pre-light: What a beautiful cigar! Well made, a really fat 54 ring gauge, and packaged in a cedar sleeve - which I used to light this "jewel" ("hoyo" means jewel in Spanish).
Creamy and mellow start with a taste of salty butter and leather on the tip of the tongue. Very strong and very pleasant aroma of cedar from the beginning on. Phenomenal fragrance!
Perfect burn, perfect ash. And what is this distinguished and enigmatic aroma which is developing as I enjoy this cigar? Piñon! Yes, indeed!
The quintessence of the second half is creamy coffee and buttery cedar with only the slightest hint of mild peppery sweetness.
Sweet, spicy finish. Mellow, creamy and cedary to the end.
The Hoyo de Monterrey Dark Sumatra has once again demonstrated to me why it is my absolute favorite cigar!
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6 comments:
Yes, and Dad told the cigar supplier that he had raised us better than to go starting a cigar shop.....I miss him.
Also, I have not yet found a Dark Sumatra Media Noche in the wild. Based on our review, the hunt is on!
DK
They are not easy to find in the wild. I found some at Cigar & Co. in OKC, but they were pricey. I usually order mine from JR Cigars. You can get a cedar chest of 10 espressos (robustos) or a sampler of 8 (2 each of all 4 sizes) for about $25 each, shipping and all.
Man, did I have a fine ash on that baby or what?!
nice ash, Mike.
You shoulda called me. I woulda come smoke with you in honor of Dad.
Thanks, Cindy. I've been told before that I have a pretty fine ash.
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