Trinidad Reyes APU OCT 14: 46 South Review Weekend

[frenchkiwi]

Yegods that Reyes is a thing of beauty

 

The weather was a bit driech (as they say in Scotland), so I thought I'd try out my garage as a smoking venue. Nae bad. I took a risk on a Reyes, from a Czars HQ box which was super strong in its youth four years ago. They were so firecracker strong that the only thing that gave me hope that they had mellowed out to elevensies acceptability was past experience and a bit of faith. In the past, my experience with Reyes is that they have been through two distinct stages - voluminous creamy smoke and meaty full bodied strength for the first 6-18months evolving to fuller-medium biscuity cedar after 3 years.

 

The beautiful dark wrappers and intense filler in this particular batch amounted to Islay-level requirements in whisky parlance. But once again Los Reyes have proven their ability to mature and become more of a versatile pleasure of the breakfast, lunch and tea variety. In fact they remind me of some recent San Cristobal piramides (La Punta), with a cumin, nutmeg and cedar sweetness. From Islay to Speyside... Very impressive.

 

Thanks again to Rob et al for the box picking service, without which my life would not have been quite the same over the last decade or so!!

 

 

Although beautifully made, the capa was no match for my cutter du jour.

[Ericbrobes]

I love a good Reyes, thanks for the review

[Optic101]

Nice review

[frenchkiwi]

Thanks. It's one of those occasions where you can say - it really was my pleasure!