This is the next of Per George Jensen's Birds of a Feather series, It goes on sale Wednesday.
The fermented Katerini perique provides a wealth of sugary stewed fruits (plums, raisins, figs, tangy dark fruit), spice, earth, wood, vegetation, and a fair amount of herbal floralness with small incense and smoke notes. It is the lead component by effect and not percentage. The red, stoved, and lighter Virginia cavendish combine to create an abundance of fermented tangy ripe dark fruit, earth, wood, bread, sugar, vegetative grass, some stewed dark fruit, tart and tangy citrus, mild floralness, spice, light sour lemon, peat, and a hint of vinegar as strong supporting players. The nutty, earthy, woody, bready, burley is a condiment. I suspect a pinch of dark fired is in the mix due to a very light barbecue note. The strength is a couple of steps past the medium mark. The taste is a notch ahead of that. The nic-hit is a slot past the medium threshold. There’s no chance of bite or harshness. It’s fairly smooth with a few minute rough notes. The easily broken apart crumble slices may require a light dry time although I did not do that. Well balanced with some depth and body, it burns cool, clean and slow with a very consistent burst of fermented fruits, sugar, a moderate amount of spice, floralness with a light smoky, barely nutty, piquant flavor that extends to the pleasantly lingering after taste. The room note is a bit more potent. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires some relights. Not an all day smoke, but it is repeatable. Four stars.
The fermented Katerini perique provides a wealth of sugary stewed fruits (plums, raisins, figs, tangy dark fruit), spice, earth, wood, vegetation, and a fair amount of herbal floralness with small incense and smoke notes. It is the lead component by effect and not percentage. The red, stoved, and lighter Virginia cavendish combine to create an abundance of fermented tangy ripe dark fruit, earth, wood, bread, sugar, vegetative grass, some stewed dark fruit, tart and tangy citrus, mild floralness, spice, light sour lemon, peat, and a hint of vinegar as strong supporting players. The nutty, earthy, woody, bready, burley is a condiment. I suspect a pinch of dark fired is in the mix due to a very light barbecue note. The strength is a couple of steps past the medium mark. The taste is a notch ahead of that. The nic-hit is a slot past the medium threshold. There’s no chance of bite or harshness. It’s fairly smooth with a few minute rough notes. The easily broken apart crumble slices may require a light dry time although I did not do that. Well balanced with some depth and body, it burns cool, clean and slow with a very consistent burst of fermented fruits, sugar, a moderate amount of spice, floralness with a light smoky, barely nutty, piquant flavor that extends to the pleasantly lingering after taste. The room note is a bit more potent. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires some relights. Not an all day smoke, but it is repeatable. Four stars.
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