HDM Destinos. Who has seen them in the flesh or tried one?

[El Presidente]

If you have indulged in one of these, let us know how they looked/smoked 

 

 

 

 

 

[LaoFan]

Smoked one a couple of weeks ago.

Looked: Great burn and construction. Nice wrapper.

Smoked: Flavour was a bit boring...

Put the rest down to see how they develop.

[El Presidente]

....nice ink BTW

[targa88]

Humidor almost looks like a flashback to the HdM Double Epicure.

[chasy]

Not sure what @LaoFan's Cuban consumption looked like prior to becoming active on the forum, but safe to say he has jumped in head first…

[LaoFan]

7 hours ago, chasy said:

Not sure what @LaoFan's Cuban consumption looked like prior to becoming active on the forum, but safe to say he has jumped in head first…

10 years a dabbler prior. Now I refresh BR 10x a day and I’m aging boxes for a child I haven’t conceived—inside a walk-in humidor that cost more than my Harley.

[SUP8333]

At the end of our course in Cuba our Maestro gifted us one to smoke, it was so fresh it tasted like a fresh roll. 😅 The wrapper looks pristine, like the Linea Maestras. At the start it was pleasant with a Hoyo taste profile coming through...wood, cream and nuts. But it was so constant throughout the entire thing, exactly like @LaoFan said, it's boring, with loads of ammonia as well, so if I had a box I would age it for many years before cracking it open. 

I had another a few months down and it was similar so I would say 6 months of rest is insufficient as well.

[JohnS]

I was gifted one by @ATGroom  (thank you!) whilst catching up to celebrate Cuban Cigar Website's 20th Anniversary recently. It started off like a Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No.2; cedar, cream-textures, light cocoa, yet much more refined. As others have stated here, it then became one-dimensional and nondescript which suggests to me that it needs more time to settle to see how it will develop.

[cnov]

I saw them sitting on a shelf in Barcelona a few weeks ago.