HVC Hot Cake Half Corona 3"1/2 * 44

A medium to full-strength smoke that delivers notes of chocolate and caramel with a touch of spice and a very peppery retro hale. Its oily, dark Mexican San Andres maduro wrapper drapes a binder and filler made of Nicaraguan Corojo tobacco. The HVC Hot Cake offers a balanced and flavorful smoking experience with a clean finish. The cigars are handmade in Nicaragua.

• Brands
  HVC Hot Cake

  The Hot Cake is the follow-up to HVC’s Pan Caliente brand. Handmade by Aganorsa Leaf in Nicaragua, the Hot Cake is a fuller bodied blend that sports a toothy Mexican San Andres maduro wrapper placed over a Nicaraguan binder and filler. HVC Cigars was founded by Reineir Lorenzo. It is an acronym for Havana City, which was Lorenzo’s hometown in Cuba.
• Cigar Shape
  Petit Corona

  The classic size of this short corona is 5 inches by a 40 to 44 ring gauge, but it can be as short as 4 inches.
• Cigar Section
  Round

  Most cigars are round in shape, as this is how the cigars are rolled by the torcedor.
• Cigar Length
  3"1/2

  This cigar is 3"1/2 inches long, or 88.9 mm.
• Origin
  Nicaragua

  Most cigars are manufactured in the Caribbean and Central America.
  Despite many decades of war and revolution in this Central American country, the cigar industry has thrived due to the hard work and tenacity of Cuban exiles to the land such as Plasencia, Padron, Oliva, Ortez, and others. Tobacco has been a force of social stability, and the country is now one of the principal exporters of premium cigars in the world.
• Cigar Ring Gauge
  44

  The cigar ring gauge corresponds to the diameter of a cigar, this cigar has a ring gauge of 44, so his diameter is 44/64 inches or 17.53 mm.
• Strength
  Medium
• Wrapper Color
  Maduro

  Cigar wrapper color varies from green (Double Claro or Candela) to black (Maduro or Oscuro) with a full range of browns in between.
  Maduro wrapper can go from dark coffee brown with a reddish tint to blackish brown (the latter also called Oscuro).
• Single Packaging
  Cellophane
• Rolling Type
  Handmade

  Handmade cigars are completely made by hand from start to finish.
• Cigar Manufacturer
  Fábrica de Tabacos HVC S.A.

  The Tabacos de Costa Rica factory was established by Don Olman in 1997. It is located in Santiago de Puriscal in Costa Rica.
• Cigar Wrapper
  Mexican San Andres Maduro

  The wrapper is the last tobacco leaf to be rolled on the cigar, so it is the one the smoker will see.
  Mexican tobacco is very dark and the best leaves can be used as maduro wrappers. San Andres Maduro is a thick, medium bodied dark leaf, also called San Andres Morron. Like Connecticut Broadleaf, San Andres Maduro is stalk cut and used for binder and wrapper.
• Cigar Binder
  Nicaraguan Corojo

  The binder is a full tobacco leaf that is used to roll the cigar, binding the filler tobaccos together. 
  Nicaraguan Corojo ’99 tobacco was first used as a wrapper in Cuba during the late 20th Century. It was then grown in Ecuador and eventually in Nicaragua. Primarily, it is used as a wrapper, but it is also used as a binder. It is regarded for its spiciness.
• Cigar Filler
  Nicaraguan Corojo

  Filler is the term used to describe the tobacco inside a cigar or the "guts" of the cigar.