Frost
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I'm working my way through a seemingly neverending collection of samples of various excellent tobaccos from fellow BoBs which I have been fortunate enough to have been the recipient of (many thanks again...you know who ya are).
Yesterday I picked up a baggie marked John Patton's Virginia Squire from 2011 and on a whim loaded it into a new Yakslon pipe. This was only the second or third bowl of anything in this pipe, hardly any cake and it's still probably 60% bare wood inside the bowl. This blend is supposedly composed of 90% 4 types of Virginia with some white burley added.
Lo & behold, it was an absolutely fantastic smoke. A tiny bit bright & sharp at first light, with a customary and familiar virginia sweetness...but with a fantastically delicious nutty and dry bottom note. Shortly after lighting the sharp/sweetness fades a bit and it becomes just deliciously nutty, deep & full (for a predominatly Va mixture at any rate) with very "dry" and subdued sweetness in the background. This continued for the rest of the smoke.
Wondering if this was just some of the new wood flavor coming through I proceeded to have a couple bowls in other pipes that were brokend in and have been used for virginia blends, and the experience was repeated with the same pleasing results.
Still not quite willing to trust my impressions, I smoked two bowls of it today as well in a cob and a new to me GBD digby. Same results, same excellent experience.
It is rather dry but doesn't burn overly fast. According to 4noggins it's supposed to be dry. I generally like my tobacco "fresh" and "moist", but Virginia Squire doesn't lose a thing from the dryness.
I'm not sure what types of virginias are in this mix, but to my tastes they make for a delicious blend. There is only a little of the bright sweetness such as you would get from the virginias in something like say...orlik g/s or c&d sunday picnic. The major flavor for the better part of the bowl to me was a deeper and nuttier taste...and it was fantastic. If it were a sound, it'd be more of a mid-range than a treble, so to speak. Like familiar strummed chords vs a guitar solo. Anyway enough of that nonsense...
I'll definitely be picking up some of this stuff to both cellar and smoke, and at ~$32/lb it's pretty gentle on the tobacco fund account as well. If it sounds like something you might like, I'd absolutely suggest giving it a go.
Anyone else tried this stuff? Impressions? Opinions?
Yesterday I picked up a baggie marked John Patton's Virginia Squire from 2011 and on a whim loaded it into a new Yakslon pipe. This was only the second or third bowl of anything in this pipe, hardly any cake and it's still probably 60% bare wood inside the bowl. This blend is supposedly composed of 90% 4 types of Virginia with some white burley added.
Lo & behold, it was an absolutely fantastic smoke. A tiny bit bright & sharp at first light, with a customary and familiar virginia sweetness...but with a fantastically delicious nutty and dry bottom note. Shortly after lighting the sharp/sweetness fades a bit and it becomes just deliciously nutty, deep & full (for a predominatly Va mixture at any rate) with very "dry" and subdued sweetness in the background. This continued for the rest of the smoke.
Wondering if this was just some of the new wood flavor coming through I proceeded to have a couple bowls in other pipes that were brokend in and have been used for virginia blends, and the experience was repeated with the same pleasing results.
Still not quite willing to trust my impressions, I smoked two bowls of it today as well in a cob and a new to me GBD digby. Same results, same excellent experience.
It is rather dry but doesn't burn overly fast. According to 4noggins it's supposed to be dry. I generally like my tobacco "fresh" and "moist", but Virginia Squire doesn't lose a thing from the dryness.
I'm not sure what types of virginias are in this mix, but to my tastes they make for a delicious blend. There is only a little of the bright sweetness such as you would get from the virginias in something like say...orlik g/s or c&d sunday picnic. The major flavor for the better part of the bowl to me was a deeper and nuttier taste...and it was fantastic. If it were a sound, it'd be more of a mid-range than a treble, so to speak. Like familiar strummed chords vs a guitar solo. Anyway enough of that nonsense...
I'll definitely be picking up some of this stuff to both cellar and smoke, and at ~$32/lb it's pretty gentle on the tobacco fund account as well. If it sounds like something you might like, I'd absolutely suggest giving it a go.
Anyone else tried this stuff? Impressions? Opinions?
) and mine was also very dry in the bag, which was new. My latest 'passion weed' is Stormfront, another Patton thing, and it also comes very dry. I was very suspicious at first, but wasn't in a position to hydrate anything so I went ahead and smoked it...found no problems whatsoever...and figured - no harm, no foul. Or whatever. 
