A while back I composed a review of Samuel Gawith Grousemoor; I decided that since I finished a "fresh/young" tin yesterday, I would open a "Year Old" tin today and post some observations/ comparisons and contrasts.
First, the tin note of a "fresh/young" tin is bright and vivid lemon grass. While the Year Old's tin note is very nice it is somewhat muted and darker... if you know what I mean.
The appearance of the "fresh/young" tin is very bright and definitely yellow, the "Year Old" looks more like a ribbon cut Burley, but still leaning to the yellow side of the spectrum.
Now we come to the meat of this contrast and comparison...
The characteristics of the smoke:
I'm glad that I decided to "cellar" some to see what would happen. I know a lot of Members feel that cellaring an Aromatic is an exercise in fertility. By-in-large I would agree with the thrust of their argument.
:D
However; while the "fresh/young" tin has a bright flavor that appeals to many and some not at all; this "Year Old" tin (like the tin note) the taste is muted somewhat, but ohhhh so rich with a really nice mouth feel.
The taste remains lemon grass, but the citric flavor has mellowed while the sweetness and the lemon have grown. The lemon not in a way that is sour because the citric flavor has mellowed and the sweetness really comes through. The sweetness isn't in a manner that remotely resembles Propylene Glycol... Just a good honest smoke that happens to have that unique Grousemoor..... uh... thing going for it.
I also have a couple of tins that are working on three years... I'll let you know how they taste in... ohhhh... ten or twenty years. :
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First, the tin note of a "fresh/young" tin is bright and vivid lemon grass. While the Year Old's tin note is very nice it is somewhat muted and darker... if you know what I mean.
The appearance of the "fresh/young" tin is very bright and definitely yellow, the "Year Old" looks more like a ribbon cut Burley, but still leaning to the yellow side of the spectrum.
Now we come to the meat of this contrast and comparison...
The characteristics of the smoke:
I'm glad that I decided to "cellar" some to see what would happen. I know a lot of Members feel that cellaring an Aromatic is an exercise in fertility. By-in-large I would agree with the thrust of their argument.
:D
However; while the "fresh/young" tin has a bright flavor that appeals to many and some not at all; this "Year Old" tin (like the tin note) the taste is muted somewhat, but ohhhh so rich with a really nice mouth feel.
The taste remains lemon grass, but the citric flavor has mellowed while the sweetness and the lemon have grown. The lemon not in a way that is sour because the citric flavor has mellowed and the sweetness really comes through. The sweetness isn't in a manner that remotely resembles Propylene Glycol... Just a good honest smoke that happens to have that unique Grousemoor..... uh... thing going for it.
I also have a couple of tins that are working on three years... I'll let you know how they taste in... ohhhh... ten or twenty years. :
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