Hoyo De Monterrey Reposado Encedros in Sueno

This cigar measures in at 5.2 X 52.  It has a dark brown oily wrapper and came with a sheet of cedar wrapped around it.  This cigar goes through a process called Imersion.  After rolling, they wrap the cigars in cedar, put the cigars in sheets of cedar, put them in a cedar box, and then pack the boxes with cedar shavings.  After this they put the cigars in a cedar vault for 90 days.  So if your thinking that these cigars may taste like cedar.  You would be correct.

The cigar after first light tasted like.....you guessed it..CEDAR.  A sweet cedar and earth mix.  The smoke is mild to medium in body and has a soft sweet aged tobacco finish.  The smoke gives no hints of pepper and is very very smooth.  It is a slow burner only going down about a half inch or so in the first 18 minutes.

The cigar kept the same flavor for the first half of the cigar.  It started move a little more quickly after the first inch. The ash held on until the half way point and fell off in a solid chunk.  The burn is not razor sharp and has waves but never required a touch up.  Every time I thought the burn would start to go completely wonky it caught it self up.

The final half of the cigar turned up the...CEDAR flavor adding in a slight sweet coffee.  The smoke was thick and plentiful and left your mouth coated with a syrupy like thickness.  It made my mouth salivate after every draw putting a nice oily syrupy slick on the palette.  The body is up to a medium to full, landing somewhere in between the two, never going completely full in body or strength.  I ended the cigar with just around an inch and a half or so left where the flavors started to get washed out.

Price: $4.75
Appearance: 95
Draw: 88
Burn: 90
Flavor: 89
Burn Time: 86

Overall Score: 90