CATEGORY: English
BLEND: Latakia, Oriental/Turkish, Virginia
FLAVORING: No
CUT: Ribbon
PIPE: Old German Clay no. 3
INTENSITY: Medium
NOTES:
Black pepper | Seared hardwood | Worcestershire sauce
A bulk blend built around musty Latakia, but not to the point of it dominating completely. The VA offers some nice bright hay far away and low. A lack of Perique keeps it steady if not simple--a textbook (although not in an academic sense as this one more than likely works on the docks) English offering, nothing fancy. A savory everyday stiff-upper-lip smoke from sun up to sundown.
Burns into a bit lumpy of an ash and does leave a hefty-side-of-moderate amount of dottle at the heel. There is an uptick in some Oriental sweet-spiciness at mid-way to that. Gives off a typical for the type campfire creosote-like aroma off a somewhat uneven smoke out-put. Likes re-lights; dwindles between them. Also would serve well as a nice albeit ham-fisted entry into and/or look at Englishes.
Properly lives up to its nom de tobacco.
TASTE: B+
AROMA: B
BURN: B
FINAL GRADE: B+
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79
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