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Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur Cigar Review
By Jesse | March 8, 2008 |
This entry comes to us from Richard. He has won himself a 5-Pack of Camacho Cigars, a Camacho Hat and entered to win the box of Camacho 10th Anniversary Corojos. See the Contest Page on how to enter.
I had recently purchased a box of the Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur Epicure based upon a friends recommendation. This cigar is a 5 1/4 x 50 and is made by the General Cigar Company. I prefer the darker wrappers, and this maduro wrapper is very well matured, not veiny, and has a nice oily sheen. At first light, you get a sweet taste of espresso coffee.
The cigar draws beautifully, and burns perfectly. The ash is milky white and very compact. The cigar is not very heavy on the deep flavors as you would expect the maduro’s to be. One third of the way through the cigar, the espresso flavor opens up to a chocolate essence. Still drawing and burning well. Towards the last third of the cigar, I did not find any additional flavors and burned it to a nub.
Outstanding. I paired this cigar with a glass of Glenmorangie 15 year.
On a scale of 1 to10, I would rate this cigar a solid 9.
Definitely well worth the money you pay for this one.
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March 8th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur is an outstanding smoke. I have no idea why I don’t smoke more of them. I will never turn one down, it’s consistent and ohhh soo good.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I have to say its been a long time since I’ve smoked one myself. I’ll have to snag a few.
March 8th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
I’ve been hearing good things about this one. I think it was a CA Top 10 of ‘07 smoke. And they’re very affordable.
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