Sasquatch
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This is a tin with very little age on it - maybe six months.
Tin note has the typical fermented/acetic smell so common with Virginias and especially with McClelland. A sweet, sharp tobacco, like Red Rapparee oddly enough, but without the oriental depths.
The cut is eccentric, ribbons, chunks, whatever. Colors range from bright golden leaf to black.
It feels kind of wet in the tin, and doesn't dry much on a plate, so I suspect a bit of PG.
I took a good pinch of this and made a wad, rammed it air-pocket style into a danish egg. Lit easily and burned easily right to the heel.
The initial tin note stays present all the way - you can always detect a kind of sweet acidic note. It's not unpleasant at all. If there is a topping, it's really subtle - maybe just a sprinkle of sugar. Reminiscent of many Mac Baren offerings, actually - Mixture, Dark Twist, Virginia No 1, and especially HH Mature Va.
Virginia woods is a much easier smoke than any Mac B though - I hauled on this like a madman and was unable to generate any bite or even any heat on the bowl, and it's a brand new pipe. This stuff is easy easy smoking.
So there's a red virginia taste, a sugary topping that is enough to leave the stem of the pipe tasting sweet, and an earthier "woodsier" note as well - like a Kentucky or something. I'm not sure. But it's good, and it's what makes the blend a bit different than so many reds, like Scottish Flake, for example. If you told me there was a bit of perique in this, I would not be surprised at all. There is something very like it, at any rate, and used in a sparing way to generate some depth of flavor.
It changes very little from top to bottom. Just a pleasant, sweet, rich smoke. Nictotene is present in small quantity - I knew I had smoked a big pipe, but it didn't leave me rocked by any means. A nic-hungry smoker won't be satisfied with this. Right at the end it gets vaguely cigar-like, which is the culmination of the "woodsiness" I guess.
All in all, I really like it. It's a style of tobacco I enjoy, and the range of flavors is both unusual and enjoyable. The fact that I couldn't heat up the pipe and experienced no bite at all puts this tobacco ahead of a few of my standard Virginia pseudo-aromatics.
Tin note has the typical fermented/acetic smell so common with Virginias and especially with McClelland. A sweet, sharp tobacco, like Red Rapparee oddly enough, but without the oriental depths.
The cut is eccentric, ribbons, chunks, whatever. Colors range from bright golden leaf to black.
It feels kind of wet in the tin, and doesn't dry much on a plate, so I suspect a bit of PG.
I took a good pinch of this and made a wad, rammed it air-pocket style into a danish egg. Lit easily and burned easily right to the heel.
The initial tin note stays present all the way - you can always detect a kind of sweet acidic note. It's not unpleasant at all. If there is a topping, it's really subtle - maybe just a sprinkle of sugar. Reminiscent of many Mac Baren offerings, actually - Mixture, Dark Twist, Virginia No 1, and especially HH Mature Va.
Virginia woods is a much easier smoke than any Mac B though - I hauled on this like a madman and was unable to generate any bite or even any heat on the bowl, and it's a brand new pipe. This stuff is easy easy smoking.
So there's a red virginia taste, a sugary topping that is enough to leave the stem of the pipe tasting sweet, and an earthier "woodsier" note as well - like a Kentucky or something. I'm not sure. But it's good, and it's what makes the blend a bit different than so many reds, like Scottish Flake, for example. If you told me there was a bit of perique in this, I would not be surprised at all. There is something very like it, at any rate, and used in a sparing way to generate some depth of flavor.
It changes very little from top to bottom. Just a pleasant, sweet, rich smoke. Nictotene is present in small quantity - I knew I had smoked a big pipe, but it didn't leave me rocked by any means. A nic-hungry smoker won't be satisfied with this. Right at the end it gets vaguely cigar-like, which is the culmination of the "woodsiness" I guess.
All in all, I really like it. It's a style of tobacco I enjoy, and the range of flavors is both unusual and enjoyable. The fact that I couldn't heat up the pipe and experienced no bite at all puts this tobacco ahead of a few of my standard Virginia pseudo-aromatics.
