Hoyo de Monterrey Elegantes LCDH - 10 cigars

Hoyo de Monterrey Elegantes LCDH - 10 cigars [6.25" x 47]

Hoyo de Monterrey Elegantes is a refined Habanos for an hour and a half of enjoyment. It is only available in La Casa Del Habano stores.

• • Creamy smoke with a dominant leather and cedar flavor profile
• • Despite its young age, it shows a nice complexity of aromas that should only get better as it ages.
  

Exclusively available at La Casa Del Habano stores, these will become rare very fast

Presentation:

Hoyo de Monterrey Elegantes La Casa Del Habanos comes in a wooden dress box of 10 cigars with Habanos packing code SLB-UW-n-10-n-10

Dimensions:

Length: 158mm (6.25 inches)

Ring Gauge: 47

Shape: 

Taco

Appearance:

Tapered at both ends, the Hoyo de Monterrey is a beautiful sight to behold; the wrapper has a nice reddish brown tone, a colorado, and it has a nice sheen of oil and a little bit of tooth on its surface. It is rather veiny but somewhat soft when squeezed.

Smoking Notes:

Before lighting up

At the foot, the cigar lets out generous aromas of barnyard, nuts, wood and grass. Once cut, the cold draw is on the tight side, but gives ample woodsy and leathery flavors, along with some nuts, spices and a bit of citrus.

Burn/ Draw

The draw is rather difficult at the beginning, but soon starts to open up after the first couple of puffs. It then becomes almost perfect until the nub, while the burn is also flawless from the first light up on and doesn’t require any attention.

Initial third:

The Hoyo de Monterrey Elegantes starts off gently with some flavors of leather and barnyard mostly. It is very creamy and light overall, as sweet notes are also present, such as caramel, cinnamon, but also some deeper flavors such as cedar and coffee. Some punchy pepper notes are slowly creeping up, especially in the retrohale. The cigar is a solid light to medium until the end of the first third.

Middle third:

In the middle part of the Hoyo de Monterrey Elegantes, the flavor profile is now definitely edging on the mineral side, with more leather and bitterness. The creamy cedar receded to the background, but the creaminess remains. A nice complexity of aromas is developing, deep flavors of black coffee, bitter cocoa, nuts and grass. The spicy aspect is also more noticeable, with some white pepper and cloves. The overall strength of the cigar increased steadily along this middle third, and the Elegantes is close to a medium bodied cigar right now.

Final third:

The last section of the cigar is again showing an evolving character, the leather remains in the foreground but a mellow grassy flavor is now the main flavor. The complexity of flavors remain present in the background, with still some caramel sweetness, spices, cedar, black coffee and dark chocolate. The strength hasn’t evolve since the middle mark of the cigar, and is just shy of a medium.

In short, the Hoyo de Monterrey Elegantes is a smooth smoke, with a mineral and woodsy profile, that should age beautifully

Smoking time:1 hour – 1 hour 30 minutes