Hoyo De Monterrey Cigars

Genuine Habanos La Hoyo de Monterrey cigars from Cuba. In 1831, Don José Gener y Batet emigrated to Cuba from Spain at the age of thirteen, where he worked on his uncle's plantation in Vuelta Abajo. Twenty years later, he would open his own cigar factory in Havana and begin producing his own cigar line, La Escepción. In 1865, after using his factory's profits to acquire one of the best tobacco farms in Vuelta Abajo, he registered a cigar line named for it: Hoyo de Monterrey.

The Hoyo de Monterrey is the name for valley place in the Vuelta Abajo, the most fertile place for growing tobacco. Hoyo de Monterrey brand was founded by Jose Gener in 1867, and is one of the oldest cigar brand of Cuba. Making its start in Cuba, the brand is considered to be one of the best cigars from the Cuba island. In 1969, after the trade embargo, the brand expended its production to Honduras with tobacco seeds smuggled out of Cuba in a diplomatic pouch.

Hoyo de Monterrey continued production in Cuba and in Honduras and is still a popular, globally-marketed Cuban cigar line. Among connoisseurs, the Épicure No. 2, Double Coronas, and Le Hoyo series are particularly prized.

Being a globally-marketed brand, Hoyo de Monterrey has been chosen for Habanos' annual Edición Limitada releases since 2000. Of interesting note is the Particular, which had some production problems during the first Edición Limitada lineup in 2000 with few of the cigars getting out to vendors. This prompted Habanos to release it again the next year, the only Edición Limitada cigar so far to have had this happen. In 2004, a new size was added to the Hoyo de Monterrey line, the Petit Robusto, which also wore a slightly-redesigned Hoyo de Monterrey cigar band.

The brand suggest medium-to-heavy flavor with a large variety of sizes.