Review Notes: I have aged this monster for at least 4 years, and though these are great right out of the box, the extra age has done wonders. With near perfect const. and a dark, smooth wrapper, this behemoth took almost 2 hours to finish. It is still a med. strentgh smoke with wonderfull coffee and semi-sweet chocolate flavors. I'm also picking up some leather and earth, along with some salt. Towards the end of the cigar it does pick up some strentgh to a med.- full profile. A couple of purges brought it back a notch. This is a superb cigar that ages gracefully and is worth every penney of the asking price of around $5.00 per cigar for online deals.

Review Notes: I have aged this monster for at least 4 years, and though these are great right out of the box, the extra age has done wonders. With near perfect const. and a dark, smooth wrapper, this behemoth took almost 2 hours to finish. It is still a med. strentgh smoke with wonderfull coffee and semi-sweet chocolate flavors. I'm also picking up some leather and earth, along with some salt. Towards the end of the cigar it does pick up some strentgh to a med.- full profile. A couple of purges brought it back a notch. This is a superb cigar that ages gracefully and is worth every penney of the asking price of around $5.00 per cigar for online deals.

Review Notes: 26 days in humidor. A hulk of a cigar. Need almost a couple of hours to polish this one off. Shows off a toothy, veiny, bumpy and rustic dark brown wrapper. A touch lighter than most maduros. Has a solid, dense feel. Cuts and lights easily maintaing a strong, smokey burn throughout the smoke. Quite s few touch-ups needed due to an uneven burn which became a bit laborious. Draw was fairly easy. For a maduro this was a medium bodied smoke at the most. Flavor profile was quite smooth and light with notes of cocoa, leather, vanilla along with a hint of cedar. This was a solid, well done cigar, but quite mild if you're expecting a typical full flavored maduro smoke.

Review Notes: I reviewed an HDM Excalibur earlier this year and thought this regular line might be too powerful. I was wrong! This beautiful dark monster cut easily, had a good draw, and burned very evenly. Enormous amount of smoke with an impressive salt and pepper ash that stayed attached, what seemed like forever. The woodsy notes with a strong kick tasted great with an equally strong home-brewed Octoberfest beer. I'll have to look at getting more of the HDM regular line and tucking them away for long term storage. This stick was a little rough around the edges, though never harsh. It would probably do well with some aging.

Review Notes: Very strange experience. Out of the wrapper the cigar was beautiful. Nice dark wrapper and great aroma. I lit the thing and the first 2 inches I couldn't get smoke or taste, despite a smooth draw. Had to relight 3 times. All of a sudden it got excellent. Tons of smoke and nice spicy taste....for about 5 minutes, then it went back to bland and smokeless. I'll be willing to try another and let it sit 6 months or so. I have had alot of HdM's and this was a unique occurence. I hope it was just bad luck.