Consolidated's Sweet Danish Slices- My wife picked this up for me on a trip to Atlanta. It's from Tobacco Supermarket…I looked on their web page to find out about this blend, but couldn't find it. It looks to be a Virginia/Burley flake, sort of dark in color. The pouch aroma is fairly sweet, but a little different from regular Virginia Flakes. I think it's cased lightly with the same type of flavoring that C&D's Danish Pastry is. Upon lighting up, it bites a tad (like all Virginia Flakes do to me) but has enough of this flavoring to really keep me involved with the smoke. I've had trouble in the past with Virginia Flakes, because they taste sort of bland. The room aroma is more like sweet cigarettes than anything else, and not really that nice after an hour or so. I really enjoyed this blend, and will order more of it soon. It's just an occasional smoke for me, but well worth it. The best Virginia Flake I've tried so far (which, honestly, isn't many).
John Middleton's Apple Tobacco- The pouch with the big red apple on it. I've wanted to try this blend for the longest time, and when my wife went up to Tobacco Supermarket, she bought it for me. The blend is a mixture of Virginias and Burleys, in a small cube-type cut that is easy to load in the pipe. The pouch aroma is a really distinct smell of apples- extremely sweet… This blend is actually more like a C&D blend, though, because the tobaccos are fairly dry- this isn't one of those Captain Black blends where the tobacco actually feels "soggy". Lighting up, there's a nice taste of something sweet that would have been hard to figure out as apples, if I didn't know the name on the pouch (it almost has a slight fruit/chocolate flavor, to me). The room aroma is fairly the same, a nice sweet smell. This is actually a better product than Lane's Apple blend and if I can find more around here, I'll buy it. It would be the perfect everyday type smoke for me- enough flavors that you wouldn't get tired of it, and enough Burley to remind you you're smoking something.
Cookie Jar- A nice sample from a friend, it has a longer cut of Burley tobacco than I'm used to. It is a nice golden color with flecks of black in it. The pouch aroma has a smell of burnt sugar, and upon lighting up, you can see why it's called Cookie Jar. It gives off a distinct aroma of sugar cookies baking in the oven! The taste has nothing to do with cookies, and bites like hell about 80% of the time I smoke it. It's a decent smoke, and enjoyable if I can get it in the 20% chance of a good smoke…the pipe will get fairly hot, so I'd recommend a pipe with thick walls. It burns superb, and there's almost no need for a re-light for steady smoking…
Edgeworth Ready Rubbed- A natural burley blend, simple as can be…It has the aroma of a musty/spice flavor in both the pouch and room aroma. I sort of enjoy the cut of this blend (which since there's a Edgeworth Flake, it must be the same tobaccos rubbed out) and it burns nice and slow. Not as good as C&D's Crooner blend, but a good tobacco for the burley lover.
Edward G. Robinson's blend- Similar to the above review, except this blend is in a ribbon cut and easier to light off the start. Both have almost the same natural flavor and room aroma, although the pouch aroma of this stuff is a little sweeter. It's okay, but it seems that Edgeworth uses a better cured Burley leaf…still not as good as Crooner's by a long shot!
Balkan Sasieni- I smoked this a long time ago, but what I can remember is it didn't have the Yenidje tobacco and had more Virginias, resulting in a slightly sweeter smoke. The tobacco was a good bit lighter in taste, although the aroma in both cases was of plenty of Latakia. Good stuff, but not as good as the original…Finck's Istanbul is a better value for the money. Incomplete.
Dan Tobacco's Liberty- Virginias, Black Cavendish and a touch of Latakia. This tin my wife picked up for me, also, because she liked the picture on it! Well, she did a good job! It's a Virginia blend mainly- the Latakia doesn't come out like an English blend at all- much more aromatic. It's a blend of light, tan and dark tobaccos and has an odd smell to it- maybe a liquor casing? Or possibly Tonka Bean? It must be another crossover blend… I can't figure it out at all, but I learned fast that it needs to be dedicated to a certain pipe, because the pipe holds the "odd" flavor for a good while. Right now, I have a medium sized carved pipe from Italy smoking this one all the time- only one pipe, since it's a fairly expensive blend! I believe my wife paid about 10 bucks for a 50g tin… The flavor is very sweet, with that odd undertone, and the room aroma is nice and also hard to describe- also fairly sweet. I usually enjoy this blend after a few beers because they bring out the flavors very well. This is certainly not an American Aromatic, it has that certain taste that many European Aromatics have. Even though this review is just about terrible since I can't figure out the blend, I recommend it to any Aromatic smoker. It's really good…and that's what counts.
Planta's Danish Black Vanilla Mixture- Unknown tobaccos, but a very moist and mainly black blend that has an odd taste- something like vanilla pudding with liquor added. Not being a big fan of vanilla or liquor tobaccos, this one wasn't my favorite blend. It was very mild, with no bite- similar to a Lane Aromatic, and the room aroma was similar to a Capt. Black blend- really smoky and very "vanilla"…The pipe really needed a good cleaning afterwards also- because that "odd" flavor stays in the bowl. Nothing to write home about…
Bufflehead's Common Teal- "an uncommonly full and rich English mixture. A mixture which contains an ample amount of Premium Latakia and fragrant with Orientals and Matured Virginias. Full English". There's something about this blend that no one I've shared it with likes…I didn't like it from the get-go, but couldn't put my finger on why. It has sort of a "soapy" taste to it. I prefer English to use Latakia as a "spice", not to make up the whole blend with it-which is what Bufflehead did with this blend. It's almost all-black and dark brown tobaccos, and is moist to the touch, which is another setback in my opinion. This English burns wet, and you'll need a few pipe cleaners lying around when you smoke it. I received this sample from a friend, and gave away most of it to other people. The small bit I had left, I pressed and will let it age for a while longer. It seems the blend was priced pretty high, also. Not really recommended…
Georgetown's Cappuccino- a blend of Cavendish and Virginias with Coffee bean extract. Another heavily cased Aromatic- this one had a nice pouch aroma of coffee beans, but the flavor was more "dark and moist" than anything else. Coffee was hard to find…The room aroma was fair, not really clogging, but still there after a while. The blend burned to a wet dottle. It wasn't bad, but I got so accustomed to the "drier" Aromatics from C&D that these have just fell out of favor with me…
Durango's Coffee- a blend of light and dark Cavendish laced with Brazilian Coffee Cavendish- so says the web page…First off, Don Hall at Durango is super to work with also, so maybe I'm a little biased on his blend. It's a very mild blend, with the taste of a strong semi-sweet Coffee flavor, but a pouch aroma that really doesn't scream "Coffee". It's good stuff, better than the McClelland blends and Georgetown's Coffee- but not in the class of Espresso just yet. I pressed my remaining sample and will let it "meld" a while and try it again. The blend was extremely mild, with French-exhaling a real treat, and a very pleasant room aroma…Thanks Don!
Paladin's Black Cherry- an all Burley blend with a pouch aroma that is extremely strong of Cherries, but not the typical "drugstore" cherry. It's fairly dry, and has a nice natural Burley taste that hints of fruits (not really cherries) Burns good, but a little hot. Some misting might be in order…probably the best drugstore cherry I've tried.
Baroque- Another buddy sent this to me, in a fairly small sample. It's a dark brown/black blend with a fairly sweet pouch aroma. It's a blend from his local store, so it's probably a Lane blend. It has a flavor that is hard to pinpoint. It's almost like cherries, chocolate, vanilla, etc. The room aroma is just as sweet a smell with a hint of fruits. The blend got a little bland at the bottom, and burned funny- but the taste was worth it. Incomplete rating right now.
Flying Dutchman- Ash sent me a pouch of this to split with Gonchi, but I hated it so much I sent the whole thing to him! My wife said the pouch aroma smelled like dead fish! It is supposed to be a blend of no less than 12 different Dutch tobaccos and is an aromatic blend, although it's extremely strong in taste and aroma. It has a slight menthol taste to it, and has a terrible room aroma. The only good thing is the cut of tobacco, which is easy to light and stay lit. Otherwise, I hated it…
Italia- My friend, John, brought this back from Italy for me. It's a blend of Italian tobaccos, mixed with Burleys. It has a nice room aroma, although the pouch aroma is just fair. It's another great burning, really strong blend that is similar to C&D's Scot's Pub. In fact, I smoke both in the same small pipe and really don't taste much difference. It's not an Aromatic or English blend, just a natural blend that is really too strong for me. Plenty of nicotine, also, and maybe a tad better flavor that Scot's Pub…
Skandinavik Mixture (black pouch)- A pretty good blend of Burleys, Virginias and Black Cavendish with a secret coating that tasted almost like vanilla and C&D's espresso. Very mild on the nose, and the tongue. It burned to a nice fine ash and had a distinct caramel flavor to the pipe. This was also a gift from a buddy, and was pretty enjoyable. A better class of the usual drugstore tobacco- buy it if you can find it….
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