Ferio Tego Metropolitan Host Hobart (5×50)

Not every situation calls for a full hour. Sometimes you’ve got thirty minutes, a good cup of coffee, and just enough time to smoke something worth lighting. That’s exactly where the Ferio Tego Metropolitan Host Hobart lives. At 5×50, this is the compact robusto format of one of the longest-running premium cigar blends in American history, a recipe that Michael Herklots and Brendon Scott carried out of Nat Sherman in 2021 and have been rolling unchanged at Davidoff’s Diadema Cigars de Honduras factory ever since. Connecticut Shade wrapper over a Honduran binder and all-Honduran filler, finished with the sweetened cap that has been the Host’s calling card for three decades.

In the Hobart, the shorter length concentrates the blend just enough to make the sweetness on the front end a little more immediate and the cedar and cream notes a little tighter throughout. Mild to medium in body, effortless on the draw, and consistent in a way that only thirty years of making the same cigar the same way can produce. Grab one for the morning. Grab a box for the week.