Kingantz
Growing too fast.
We’ve had mid to lower 30F temps the past few days with frost every morning, however this morning was mid to upper 40’s. Weatherman said was going to get up to the 70’s today and sure enough, sun was warm creeping over the tree line with not a cloud in the sky and not even a faint breeze blowing. I decided since it was to be such a beautiful day, I’d have a go at the Hoyo De Monterrey Epicure Especial and H. Upmann Mag 50 ‘08’s. I need to give a huge thanks to Don (Pembroke3355) as he was most generous in sending this and the H. Upmann Mag 50 after I mentioned in his post that I’d love to try them. Not only did he gift these, but threw in a third very nice smoke as well. Thank you Don! Most generous of you!
I started out with the HDM Epi E with a fresh brewed cup of coffee. The wrapper was a golden brown and quite coarse. It seems this cigar only had a double cap, or at least that’s all I could see even with my glasses on.
It had a nice weight in the hand and only a slight give when squeezed. I punched the cap and found a near perfect draw with no real discernible taste other than fresh, raw tobacco. I put fire to the foot and blew on the toasted tobacco to get an even burn. Tons of smoke rolled from the fiery foot.
First draw was very mild with no spice to be found. I had thought maybe there wasn’t enough fire put to the foot yet, however there was a good burn going all around with a huge amount of smoke. Several more draws in the smoke continued to be quite mild, however the flavor was an incredible sweet caramel and brown sugar. This was about the creamiest smoke I think I’ve ever had, like silk on the tongue. A third in and the caramel is oozing from the smoke and absolutely delicious. I could tell the cigar was very young and needed more rest, as the nicotine level was still quite high. I was getting a fairly nice head rush, and I could feel my pulse quicken a bit. Whoa.
Around the half way point, I started getting a bit of white pepper spiciness on the back of the throat and the strength started turning to a medium. I was still getting the caramel, but it too began to darken a bit into more of a slightly burnt caramel with the dark brown sugar notes. Towards the end it was a full medium with a rich earthiness coming through, but still sweet.
I thoroughly enjoyed this smoke, even though it started out being mild. I loved the creaminess texture and the caramel flavor. I did have some burn issues with running a couple of times and the wrapper did crack a couple of times. However, I can see having some of these in the humi for sure!
I started out with the HDM Epi E with a fresh brewed cup of coffee. The wrapper was a golden brown and quite coarse. It seems this cigar only had a double cap, or at least that’s all I could see even with my glasses on.
It had a nice weight in the hand and only a slight give when squeezed. I punched the cap and found a near perfect draw with no real discernible taste other than fresh, raw tobacco. I put fire to the foot and blew on the toasted tobacco to get an even burn. Tons of smoke rolled from the fiery foot. First draw was very mild with no spice to be found. I had thought maybe there wasn’t enough fire put to the foot yet, however there was a good burn going all around with a huge amount of smoke. Several more draws in the smoke continued to be quite mild, however the flavor was an incredible sweet caramel and brown sugar. This was about the creamiest smoke I think I’ve ever had, like silk on the tongue. A third in and the caramel is oozing from the smoke and absolutely delicious. I could tell the cigar was very young and needed more rest, as the nicotine level was still quite high. I was getting a fairly nice head rush, and I could feel my pulse quicken a bit. Whoa.
Around the half way point, I started getting a bit of white pepper spiciness on the back of the throat and the strength started turning to a medium. I was still getting the caramel, but it too began to darken a bit into more of a slightly burnt caramel with the dark brown sugar notes. Towards the end it was a full medium with a rich earthiness coming through, but still sweet.
I thoroughly enjoyed this smoke, even though it started out being mild. I loved the creaminess texture and the caramel flavor. I did have some burn issues with running a couple of times and the wrapper did crack a couple of times. However, I can see having some of these in the humi for sure!
