Hoyo de Monterrey Petit Robusto SEP 06My mother use to make me eat a chickpea soup and I use to cry like a baby as soon as I saw it being prepared on the stove. That was three weeks ago but the memories still haunt me. I have similar experiences with the Hoyo De Monterrey Petit Robusto. I have only experienced substandard thin flavoured hot burning crud. I swear whenever I enter the humidor to select a cigar for review the HDM PR box glows like Kryptonite to to point that I avoid them like a telephone call from the tax office. Then along came the latest edition of Cigar Aficionado and a ranking of 93. Initially I thought it was a misprint in that they got the numbers around the wrong way but it was enough for me to clinch my teeth put a hand in the SLB cab and quickly take one out for review. Good looking cigar with a shark skin wrapper which was slightly rough to the touch. Construction looks good and the smell at cold is straight tobacco with a peppermint note (warning lights flashing :surprised
) and the draw was spot on. Cream and cocoa on the lips. Fired up the little bugger (I still hate this size) and am astounded by a wall of flavour. Coffee shortbread custard dominate the palate in a mid body which is lush and viscous. I do not know if it is the difference i tobacco being used or a difference in blend but the end result is FLAVOUR in spades. It is the lushness of the cigar which entrances. Each draw is "thick" and the flavours are delivered like a home made thick shake. They coat the tongue and the mouth and linger and linger and linger. Still coffee shortbread and custard... still mid bodied and still delicious. Past the halfway it heats up a little too much. I try to slow it down and fail with the end effect that the heat in an instant takes away the core flavours. I am nonplussed and pissed off as if someone has stolen my corkscrew. The other problem is that I am down to the band and there is no hope of recovery in such a short cigar. I smoked it to the nub. Through the heat there were still elements of burn't caramel and I settled for that rather than pitch it out hoping against hope for the return of the aforementioned flavours. I once dated a girl in high schoool called Daniele who was an exchange student from Paris. She promised to come back too... not sure where I am going with this story.89/100. Start was a 93.
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