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08-22-2009, 02:00 PM | #1 |
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Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona
Hoyo de Monterrey Double Corona
Country of fabrication: Cuba Date of issue: Pre 2000 Date of review: Saturday August 22, 2009 Setting: A warm and sunny afternoon on the back porch Accompanying beverages: Islay Mist 17 Year Old and a glass of cool water. The blended Scotch proved an ideal match. Appearance of outer leaf: Richly toned Colorado with diffuse, subtle oscuro markings as well as a few crystallized oil deposits. Very fine tooth. Ash: Bone grey-white to charcoal. Combustion: Apart from a burn edge that tended to scallop unevenly, no problems were encountered. Total time of session: Approximately 1½ hours. Opening portion: Dry cocoa. Cinnamon. Cedar. Mild tobacco with a distinctively sweet, clay-like, earthy quality. Faint musk, which the Scotch whisky tended to accentuate. Early stages: Chocolate mint wafers. Roasted sesame seeds. The cocoa beginning to shed its granularity in favour of a more toffee-imbued creaminess. Some soft baking spices flitting about the perimeter of the palate. The heart of the smoke: Flavours tightly intertwined, the boundaries between core tobacco, cocoa and cedar blurring in a more cohesively conveyed thrust. Leaning decidedly to the milder end of the intensity spectrum. Very smooth. Latter stages: Cocoa butter. Honey-laced carrot cake. Aniseed. The cedar component taking on a slightly briny tone akin to Alaea sea salt. Delicate and quite sublime. Closing moments: Gaining marginally in strength. A taste of fruit skins emerging, evidencing the still present underlying tannins. Hints of Yemen coffee percolating through into the cocoa element. Balanced and satiating despite the overall mildness. Assessment: Four years have passed since I last lit up one of these. At that time, I thought I had caught the Hoyo at its peak. Now, I’m not so sure. Summary: A hard one to put to rest. Have a fine weekend, everyone.
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