{"id":2245,"date":"2014-02-03T07:08:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2014-07-15T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T15:08:18","slug":"hoyo-de-monterrey-epicure-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"Hoyo De Monterrey Epicure No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Brand<\/td>\nHoyo De Monterrey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Name<\/td>\nEpicure No. 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vitola<\/td>\nRobusto<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Country of Origin<\/td>\nCuba<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wrapper\/Filler\/Binder<\/td>\nCuba<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Box Code<\/td>\nMME MAR 13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date Smoked<\/td>\n01\/31\/2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Paired With<\/td>\nn\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tasting Notes<\/td>\nAn outstanding first third giving way to “just ok”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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This past Friday I decided it was time to revisit the “Epi 2.” I have\u00a0reviewed this cigar<\/a>\u00a0in the past and found it to be pretty good, but nothing near the rave reviews I tend to come across online.<\/p>\n

This particular sample is quite young – from March of 2013. With less than a year of age, how will this cigar perform?<\/p>\n

The prelight aroma on the cigar is fantastic. Sweetness in spades. I give it a punch cut and the cold draw is a tad too tight.<\/p>\n

I light it up and the first few draws are fantastic! I can taste gingerbread, honey and brown sugar. The finish is long and delicious. The draw in the early stages is a little too firm but it gets better early in the smoke.<\/p>\n

The first third of this cigar is absolutely fantastic. Tons of sweetness with a nice rich body. Unfortunately, the cigar mutes a lot in flavour after the first third. The sweetness subsides and I’m left with a pretty ordinary cigar. It reminds me a little bit of a\u00a0Liga Privada T52<\/a>\u00a0I reviewed in the past. That smoke had a great start as well and transformed into an average smoke.<\/p>\n

I’m still rating this Epi 2 quite high as I believe they do show promise.<\/p>\n

\"epi2-1\"<\/a> \"epi2-2\"<\/a> \"epi2-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Brand Hoyo De Monterrey Name Epicure No. 2 Vitola Robusto Country of Origin Cuba Wrapper\/Filler\/Binder Cuba Box Code MME MAR 13 Date Smoked 01\/31\/2014 Paired With n\/a Tasting Notes An outstanding first third giving way to “just ok”   This past Friday I decided it was time to revisit the “Epi 2.” I have\u00a0reviewed this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[67,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-2245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-written-reviews","8":"tag-epicure-no-2","9":"tag-hoyo-de-monterrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}