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Montecristo Petit Edmundo: flavour profile and cigars like it

Montecristo Petit Edmundo is a medium to full hand-made cigar. It has a Cuban leaf wrapper over Cuban long filler. Published tasting notes mention licorice, orange peel, honey and wood.

On our flavour map it leans toward cedar and wood, with fruit and flowers behind it. If you like it, the closest matches are Flor de Selva Classic and Cohiba Lanceros.

What does Montecristo Petit Edmundo taste like?

Cream & nutsCedar & woodEarth & leatherPepper & spiceCocoa & coffeeSweet & caramelFruit & floralHay & herbs
Our flavour map: the published notes, weighted 60%, plus the wrapper style, 40%.
  • licorice
  • orange peel
  • honey
  • wood

How strong is it, and what's in it?

WrapperCuban leaf
BinderCuban
FillerCuban long filler
StrengthMedium to full
Made byHabanos S.A. (Cuba)
SizesPetit Edmundo 4.375x52

Strength here means nicotine, which mostly comes from the filler. Wrapper colour is not a strength guide. Cuban cigars generally can't be legally imported into the United States.

On the retailer best-seller lists we track in Estonia and France.

Cigars like Montecristo Petit Edmundo

  1. Flor de Selva Classic77% flavour matchConnecticut shade wrapper · MediumMore cream and nuts, less fruit and flowers, a step milder.
  2. Cohiba Lanceros75% flavour matchCuban wrapper · Medium to full · CubanSame Cuban wrapper style, Cuban filler too, more cream and nuts, less cedar and wood, same strength.
  3. Arturo Fuente Rosado Sungrown Magnum R66% flavour matchHabano wrapper · Medium to fullMore cream and nuts, less fruit and flowers, same strength.
  4. Montecristo No. 166% flavour matchCuban wrapper · Medium to full · CubanSame Cuban wrapper style, Cuban filler too, more pepper and spice, less fruit and flowers, same strength.
  5. Romeo y Julieta Short Churchill63% flavour matchCuban wrapper · Medium · CubanSame Cuban wrapper style, Cuban filler too, more cream and nuts, less cedar and wood, a step milder.

Matched on eight flavour axes plus body, within one strength step. One cigar per brand.

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