{"id":648,"date":"2011-02-08T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T16:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-02-08T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T16:26:08","slug":"monte-pascoal-belicoso-cigar-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Monte Pascoal Belicoso Cigar Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country: Brazil<br \/>\nLength\/Ring: 5.5\u00c3\u201452<br \/>\nShape: Belicoso<br \/>\nWrapper: Brazil mata Fina<br \/>\nFiller: <span style=\"font-family: Arial Black,Gadget,sans-serif; color: #500514;\"><span><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">Mata Fina and Mata Norte<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nStrength:\u00c2\u00a0 Med\/Full<\/p>\n<p>MSRP: around $7<\/p>\n<p>My Rating: 4.25 Stars!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/monte-pascoal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-635 alignnone\" title=\"monte pascoal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/monte-pascoal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/monte-pascoal.jpg 485w, http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/monte-pascoal-300x52.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First of all thank you again Wesley Gensel from GVG International <a href=\"http:\/\/cigarsfrombrazil.com\/\">www.cigarsfrombrazil.com<\/a> for letting me get this and more Brazilian brands to more cigar smokers.\u00c2\u00a0 I really think Brazilian cigars are underrated in the states and more people should check them out.\u00c2\u00a0 Today we have the Monte Pascoal cigar which is made from all Brazilian Mata Fina and Mata Norte tobaccos.\u00c2\u00a0 These are made at a small factory in Cruz das Almas &#8211; Bahia in the middle of the Rec\u00c3\u00b4ncavo Baiano area a privileged region for the growth of the highest quality Brazilian Tobacco. According to the website:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #79040a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #75040a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">&#8220;Tabacos Mata Fina has a workforce of\u00c2\u00a030 employees in its cigar production. The annual production is approximately 500,000 units. Tabacos Mata Fina main goal is to maintain a constant production targeting to achieve perfection in each cigar manufactured.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #79040a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #75040a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The cigar has a slightly rough wrapper with very small veins.\u00c2\u00a0 Pre light smells of grass and hay with a hint of sweetness.\u00c2\u00a0 After lighting this cigar I got a lot of upfront candy sweetness from the mata fina wrapper, this is the signature flavor of brazilian tobacco in my book.\u00c2\u00a0 The smoke was abundent and more light sweetness and nutty flavors came through.\u00c2\u00a0 The cigar had a nice draw and burned flawlessly.\u00c2\u00a0 Athough the ash didn&#8217;t last as long as it&#8217;s brazilian sister the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/2011\/01\/23\/dona-flor-reserva-especial-robusto-cigar-review\/\">&#8220;Dona Flor&#8221;<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 it did hold on until midpoint.\u00c2\u00a0 There are lots of similarities between the dona flor and monte pascoal but this cigar was on the lighter side of medium.\u00c2\u00a0 I really enjoyed this cigar and am really starting to like the brazilian cigars out there.\u00c2\u00a0 I suggest you try this cigar if you can find it.\u00c2\u00a0 Visit the cigars from Brazil website for more information.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #79040a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span style=\"color: #75040a;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/monte-pascoal11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-650 alignnone\" title=\"monte pascoal1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/monte-pascoal11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/monte-pascoal11.jpg 390w, http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/monte-pascoal11-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country: Brazil Length\/Ring: 5.5\u00c3\u201452 Shape: Belicoso Wrapper: Brazil mata Fina Filler: Mata Fina and Mata Norte Strength:\u00c2\u00a0 Med\/Full MSRP: around<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=648\"> [Read the full story &#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monte-pascoal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p16MGD-as","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}