Quick Smoke: Tatuaje The Hyde

Each Saturday and Sunday we’ll post a Quick Smoke: not quite a full review, just our brief verdict on a single cigar of “buy,” “hold,” or “sell.”

The last two Halloween-themed Monster Series releases from Tatuaje were The Jekyll (2014) and The Hyde (2015). The former featured a lighter Ecuadorian Sancti Spíritus wrapper around Nicaraguan binder and filler tobaccos, whereas the latter sported a darker Ecuadorian Sumatra wrapper over Nicaraguan binder and filler tobaccos. I liked both, and was pleased to recently discover I still have The Hyde (7 x 49) in stock. So I decided to take one for a test drive to see if it had changed since I reviewed it in November. Granted, when it comes to cigar aging, four months isn’t a long time, and I therefore wasn’t expecting a wildly different experience. What I found was very similar to my review (and my memory). The Hyde is a veritable candy bar with medium-bodied notes of sweet cream, chocolate, mint, graham cracker, and a little background pepper. I liked it then, and I like it now.

Verdict = Buy.

–Patrick A

photo credit: Stogie Guys