Hoyo De Monterrey Cigars...

[sbthang]

There is no one great cigar, many are good, few are really bad, you need to experience good and the meh to simply learn to find the range your palette enjoys; very much like cigar sites. After all one only needs to look at the current crop of 23 year old American cigar bloggers grunting under their vastly sticky bulk, awkwardly throwing out four to five letter descriptive adjectives like nice and tasty, bearing shameful neck beards and gangster baseball caps, sucking on mega-fat, mega-strong, new world cigars unable to to even spell the country from where it hails let alone be able to point to it on a map, imagining all the while that this stick genuinely makes them slim, charming and deeply attractive to the opposite sex, when in fact they are crushingly sad basement-dwellers living with their parents and forced to smoke outside.

However I with the help of my friends here have compiled a go-to seven box list, it might help.

Holy Cow! You do know you can get anaesthetic to apply on that raw nerve...

Perhaps I could tease a recommendation of a particular HDM cigar you do like then, if possible with an enjoyable beverage companion, as long as you promise not to use and four or five letter adjectives. (I'm a skinny, sensitive english lad that's not blessed with a geography degree - however I do have the vaguest idea how to use Google, so foreign countries don't daunt me)

Steve

[mackem keith]

Right getting back to the topic.. I personally enjoy most of the Hoyo range but seem to be smoking plenty of the PE at the moment they are smoking excellent right now, i also have a soft spot for the epicure No.1 great cigar with some age behind it

[Simon Bolivar]

Hoyo's were one of my first Havnaas & have always remained a favourite. This might be surprising considering I also love the full bodied brands but there's a time & a place for a wide range of tastes during the day & the season.
Hoyo's for me are a great morning or lunch time smoke, a du GourmetHoyo.Du Gourmet.2009.08Picture 089.jpg is a fine early morning smoke, the des Dieux or du Roi later in the morning. Epi No 2Hoyo.No2.2009.04.02_0600.jpg great after luncheonHoyo.No2.2008.01.26_0577.jpg, the Epi No 1 Hoyo.No1.Farhads.14.06.2007D.17.jpgfor mid afternoon & have the DC later after a dinner of fish or chicken. Heavy red meats or game really need the full bodied cigar to match.
As for alcoholic beverages: Stella will go with any Hoyo, as a bulk standard. I don't drink much white wine but if you enjoy it then something not too dry would be fine. Leffe Blonde is a good choice for the DC but Duvell goes well with the Epi's & is probably more widely available.
The only Hoyo's I am not keen on; are the Coronas,Hoyo.Corona.2008.08.23_0926.jpg Du Marie (prone to very tight draw), Depute & Coronations. Hoyo.Coronation.2007.IMG_0240.jpgGood luck with your experimentation, let us all now how you get on: Hope you enjoy the pic's from my Hoyo archive. Hoyo.Especial.2008.10.15_1077.jpg2011 March Cuba 231.jpg

[sbthang]

Fantastic post Simon...a true gentlemen of the leaf. Great pics too.
Got an Epi No 2 in the Humi - only been in there a few days, and the way things are going, I can't see it getting to it's first weeks birthday
Steve

[spirit_of_will]

Loving the Hoyo's at the moment, smoked the best part of a box of '09 Epi 2's so far this year and gutted to be running out. Been reaching for those more often than my Pet Robs. Another firm fave that I've enjoyed a few singles of is the Regalos - very keen to find a box of those at a good price!

[whisky77]

Epicure Especial is a nice cigar, but the Epicure No2 is still one of the top 5 Robustos IMO.Try it with some heavier Malts like the Macallan or Highland Park.

[Daize]

Epi 2 and Hoyo des Dieux are imho the best in the line

[simonc]

DC now let's move on

[daverave999]

Petit Robusto paired with Canada Dry ginger ale. It's not alcoholic but it goes SO well...

[kensg]

Le Hoyo des Dieux

[tippexx]

Epi 2 and Hoyo des Dieux are imho the best in the line

I'm with Daize. Peroni Gran Reserva is a nice drop to have handy too!

[joeray]

I've only smoked the Epicure especial, and I really like it.

[Pleevy]

I'm with Daize. Peroni Gran Reserva is a nice drop to have handy too!

Fantastic beer, never come across it in a shop. Goes down a treat with a nice pizza

[sbthang]

I know this sounds bizarre, but I read on the 'net about drinking Kahlua with Cuban cigars, as it's essentially from the same region... I hate to admit it, but it wasn't half bad - a bit sweet, but actually not too overpowering, imho...
Steve

[Chiefy]

Love the Epicure No1's. Try it with a nice speyside like Balvennie or Highland Park 12yr old.