Hades Cigars Negro Toro Especial tasting report

Hades Cigars is a boutique cigar. It is made from 100% tobacco from Nicaragua and is also produced there. The brand owner and importer in Switzerland is Tobias Dräyer. What is it like, this Hades Cigars?

A cigar test is subjective

Note: How a cigar tastes is influenced by personal taste preferences, taste memories, the form of the day, what you have eaten or drunk beforehand. Even the lighting in the room has an influence on the flavour you experience. The notes described here therefore do not necessarily correspond to your own impressions.

Fact Sheet

• Format: Toro Especiales (length: 14.2 cm / diameter: 2.54 cm)
• Tobacco:
  • Wrapper leaf: Nicaragua
  • Leaf: Nicaragua
  • Filler: Nicaragua
• Price: Status June 2022
  • CHF 15.00

Personal impressions of the pleasure

Recommended acclimatisation: 10 days with cellophane in the humidor

First half

• Tongue, palate: sweetish / nutty / slightly peppery / cocoa (bittersweet) / wood / slightly acidic
• Retronasal: grassy / cocoa (bittersweet) / wood
• R+ ZiZo vacuum technology: grassy / lots of coffee beans / lots of wood (roasted flavours)
• Umami: meaty / juicy
• Strength 3/5

Second half

• More sweetness and more nut / cocoa remains / slightly more acidity / lots of wood

Conclusion Hades Cigars Negro Toro Especial tasting report

A welcome discovery in the world of cigars! Tobias Dräyer is passionate about his brand. No wonder - because he has gone to great lengths to ensure that his cigar finds its way from Nicaragua to Switzerland.

After purchase, I recommend acclimatisation for at least 10 days (in cellophane and humidor). According to the standard, it does not glow quite as long as you might be used to. The ash is not yet very compact and separates every half to two centimetres. The occasional slightly crooked burn is levelled out with the flame.

This is not a fault of the cigar, but the tobacco simply needs to rest a little longer.

An otherwise completely uncomplicated cigar. I tested two of them and I really enjoyed them! I particularly liked the balanced harmony between sweetness and acidity. Mixed with nut and wood, and retronasally lots of roasted flavours of coffee beans and wood - I really like that!

You can find the Google link to the brand under Resources below. It is currently being sent to Swiss addresses. Be sure to test it!

As always: „If I like the cigar, maybe you will too. But if you don't like it, then there's more for me!‘ 🙂

Resources on the topic

• Buy a cigar: Google Search >

• Helpful cigar tips: From „retronasal“ and „umami“ to the difference in cigar storage between Non Cuba and Cuba