Trinidad Reyes ARS MAR19 (TVQVRW)

[Meklown]

Beautiful brown wrapper with lots of tiny veins running around. Not very oily looking.

Cold draw is not very flavorful, a little buttery.

Starts off on burnt cookies, chocolate chips. There already is a nice smoothness to it. The draw is perfect at the moment, and the strength light-medium; perfect for an afternoon smoke. A savoury hit of light soy sauce, which goes away as quickly as it came.
Into the second 1/3 and there's a distinct vanilla essence flavour. Not a lot of difference from the first third in terms of general profile. Gradually there's a bit of roast pork marinated with only salt. There is some umami.
Towards the third 1/3 the umami and savoury flavours go away and it's mainly back to burnt cookies, this time skimming the edge of acceptable bitterness.

Overall a good afternoon smoke, plenty of smoothness for a young one, with good hints of complexity even within a short smoke. 86/100

[rcarlson]

Nice work.  I've got a few of these coming.  Never had the reyes before.  Hoping it is like a mini fundi.  

[Meklown]

29 minutes ago, rcarlson said:

Nice work.  I've got a few of these coming.  Never had the reyes before.  Hoping it is like a mini fundi.  

Thank you. These were PSPs from FOH - fantastic quality as always.

[Burningman]

Good review. I'l can't recall getting semi sweet chocolate from these. The one I reviewed was from 2011. I might just break my routine and dip into a younger box to see if i can pick up on similar flavors.

Thanks for posting!

[Meklown]

12 hours ago, Burningman said:

Good review. I'l can't recall getting semi sweet chocolate from these. The one I reviewed was from 2011. I might just break my routine and dip into a younger box to see if i can pick up on similar flavors.

Thanks for posting!

Thanks! I got more of "baking chocolate chips" notes rather than "artisan chocolate" if that makes any sense