Escudo Navy De Luxe Pipe Tobacco in Review

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Escudo Navy De Luxe Pipe Tobacco in Review

CATEGORY: Virginia/Perique (VaPer)
BLEND: Perique, Virginia
FLAVORING: none

BLENDER: Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG)
MANUFACTURER: Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG)

CUT: Coin-cut
PIPE: Old Dominion Williamsburg Clay
INTENSITY: Mild-medium/Medium

NOTES:

Milk chocolate | Candied lemon | Black pepper

Speaking to my personal style of grading, there are some offerings that simply 'test well.' I begin believing each review will end in an A. I then deduct accordingly. An A+ is just a special and rare thing in which I hear angels sing or myself say "Oh." As to this pipe tobacco at hand, I hear nothing, but too, find no obvious dings. A carefully, no, deftly assembled VaPer. Sweet, tangy, and quite smooth w/ just the most perfect little perique kick there maybe ever was. Milk chocolate dipped candied lemon slices. Black pepper with anise accompaniment.

Plum-forward mid-section but quickly-so and then some grassy elements ease in over-top. Sunny, not glaringly-bright. Tethered in pale grains and chicken coop. Golden hay. Hey! Some nuttiness--macadamia brings tidings. An excellent and lauded benchmark of its category. Sweet and spice interplay so garsh-darned well. Pinewood borderings. Finishes in crisp sweet palate and tingly cheeks, lips. Friggin' classic and about as flawless as can be. Calm and steady. I'll try a kvetch... the body is a bit lesser-so than I'd find to be in exquisite proportion. 

It does, insofar as performance, seem to take a half-bit more relights than it could, but that's a fair trade-off for a ::: very ::: cool smoke. Quite the dry bowl. Quite the powdery ash, "Scientifically manufactured" runs the label, in part. I'd buy and apply that to a certain lack of inherent charisma. Although the delicate room-note does scan as mildly jovial. Not a twinkly eye, maybe--but a slight and knowing grin. Maybe the most adept blend there is. How's this?... Reality TV relies on fuck-ups for entertainment. No one loves a show where everyone just does their job. That is until they see one (which they never will but you get the gist). 

TASTE: A
AROMA: A
BURN: A-

FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59

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