Monday, July 27, 2026

HDA (Hermanos de Armas) Cigars Cataclysm Toro in Redux* Review

BRAND: HDA
BLEND: Cataclysm

WRAPPER: Ecuadorian Habano
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Toro (654)
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
(*now rolled at the Rojas Factory)
INTENSITY: Medium-full/Full
SPICE: 4/5

NOTES:
Chocolate | Spices | Shine Box

More punchy and more focused now. A greater vigor. Chocolate bread and corner brownie piece. Wooden tension via seasoned and charred oak. Excellent structuring. Heavy. A bracing salinity. Shots of espresso and accompanying crema. Ginger beer. Lingering animal, vegetable, and mineral oils.

Well-balanced unerring black peppery delivery. Draws a bit slow, but evenly. Burns on a razor-line. Excellent smoke out-put with a darkly-sweet woodsy olfactory sense. Built quite well, showing goodly amounts of veinage twixt tight seams. A full meal, and dessert. Visions of a shine box...

"Now go home and get your fucking shine box."

TASTE: A
DRAW: B+
BURN: A-
BUILD: A-

FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79

::: very :::