Hoyo ep2 SLE FEB 16 (SM2RW)

[Meklown]

This was smoked on Monday with a nice coffee (c&c) on my last activity in Fukuoka before my return flight. If anyone hasn't been to Fukuoka before, it's highly recommended with a nice environment to walk around and relax in, with fantastic food options! 
Hoyo ep2 is definitely workhorse in my stable, it has had a place in my daily rotation for many years now. This one was presented with fantastic Colorado shade wrapper with good construction. There was a green spot and minor blemishes but neither turned out to affect the taste. I did not have a cutter with me so just used my fingernails to peel off the cap, revealing a nice little divot.
Cold draw: Lots of clove
1st 3rd: cigar begins with more cloves, and after a few puffs was presented with clotted cream as well. There was some Bitter coffee and Cocoa Bean flavours coming through.
2nd 3rd: more of the same flavours, with the pleasant coffee, cocoa and cream flavours coming through. Some Vanilla comes along to mute the cloves now
Into the 3rd 3rd: notes of Sweet tangerines and Cedar coming through to complement the coffee and Cocoa which were the theme for this cigar. Slightly less cream overall than what I may expect from a Hoyo ep2.

Overall, the draw and burn were both good, never needing any relights.  

Score: 85/100

[PuffDaddie]

I give the Hoyo 2  a92/100

[Meklown]

1 hour ago, crking3 said:

85 seems quite low for such a pleasant smoke with no issues


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In my scale, 90 is a perfect cigar and 91-100 are various levels of perfection (taste-wise, to my liking) - so there were a couple of points docked here for the imperfect wrapper, another couple for the lack of creamy goodness that I sort of expect from a hoyo2, and even though the pyramid showed itself on every tap, no relights or touchups were necessary, it was still -1 for the imperfect burn (visible from the 2nd photo) which did not produce those perfect "rings".

Nothing else that wow-ed me, so no bonus points for that