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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, which as you may recall were super strong in their youth (2014 box?). 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. Past boxes 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. (In fact I may have some photos of Matt, Naomi and Bryony demonstrating this a couple of years ago.) 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 those San Cristobal piramides (La Punta) that we have had, with a cumin, nutmeg and cedar sweetness. Very impressive.
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| Although well constructed, the piggy tail capa was no match for my garage cigar cutter. |
