Puff Daddy
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Let's all share our thoughts on what we smoked from the box Seems a shame for us all to be sampling the goodies without sharing and comparing our opinions, so here's the place to do it
I have to start with the Maduro cut cake, an amazing blend. Pease has accomplished something quite special with this one. The flakes are superb, everything is quite melded together as far as flavors go and the result is a flavorful, cool smoking tobacco where the cigar note is slightly sweet and ever present but not overbearing, backed up very subtly by a light measure of latakia. This is simply one of the finest tobacco's I've ever smoked!
Maltese Falcon: I was impressed right off the bat with the smoky tin aroma of this stuff. Someone mentioned KC masterpiece, another said Blackwoods flake without the ketchup, both good analogies. Lot's of dark tobacco in the blend and my first thought was "OK, this is going to be a lat bomb" but it wasn't so. The latakia was definitely present, but in quite a moderate amount - it never dominated. The smokiness was quite present throughout the entire bowl and there were some interesting flavors there I couldn't put my finger on. I can see what all the hype is about, this is a very fine and interesting smoke. I've never had anything quite like it.
Peter Heinrich's 312: A virginia blend with some sweetened black cavendish blended in. Normally I just don't bother with these kind of blends but I do like the occasional aromatic, kind of how you may not be a dessert eater but occasionally indulge in some haagen-dazs. This stuff bit me pretty good during the first smoke in a fairly small pipe. When I bagged the sample there was enough there for two bowls, so I figured why not try it in a different pipe. Yesterday I loaded the remains into a Stanwell golden danish bent dublin that smokes pretty darned well and settled in to concentrate on smoking this stuff very slowly. It turns out that this is a very well made, high class Virginia and when sipped it doesn't bite, at least not in that particular pipe. The aromatic nature is modest and the virginia flavors dominate. There are even some of Heinrich's curlies in the mix adding a nice depth to the smoke. I enjoyed it very much, smoked it right to the bottom! This is much, much nicer than most any other aromatic Va I've smoked before, very good stuff! I'm going to try to grab a couple tins of this. Hopefully it's still available - Mars doesn't list it right now, not sure who else carries Heinrich's online.
More to come!
Looking forward to the rest of you sharing your experiences! 8)
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I have to start with the Maduro cut cake, an amazing blend. Pease has accomplished something quite special with this one. The flakes are superb, everything is quite melded together as far as flavors go and the result is a flavorful, cool smoking tobacco where the cigar note is slightly sweet and ever present but not overbearing, backed up very subtly by a light measure of latakia. This is simply one of the finest tobacco's I've ever smoked!
Maltese Falcon: I was impressed right off the bat with the smoky tin aroma of this stuff. Someone mentioned KC masterpiece, another said Blackwoods flake without the ketchup, both good analogies. Lot's of dark tobacco in the blend and my first thought was "OK, this is going to be a lat bomb" but it wasn't so. The latakia was definitely present, but in quite a moderate amount - it never dominated. The smokiness was quite present throughout the entire bowl and there were some interesting flavors there I couldn't put my finger on. I can see what all the hype is about, this is a very fine and interesting smoke. I've never had anything quite like it.
Peter Heinrich's 312: A virginia blend with some sweetened black cavendish blended in. Normally I just don't bother with these kind of blends but I do like the occasional aromatic, kind of how you may not be a dessert eater but occasionally indulge in some haagen-dazs. This stuff bit me pretty good during the first smoke in a fairly small pipe. When I bagged the sample there was enough there for two bowls, so I figured why not try it in a different pipe. Yesterday I loaded the remains into a Stanwell golden danish bent dublin that smokes pretty darned well and settled in to concentrate on smoking this stuff very slowly. It turns out that this is a very well made, high class Virginia and when sipped it doesn't bite, at least not in that particular pipe. The aromatic nature is modest and the virginia flavors dominate. There are even some of Heinrich's curlies in the mix adding a nice depth to the smoke. I enjoyed it very much, smoked it right to the bottom! This is much, much nicer than most any other aromatic Va I've smoked before, very good stuff! I'm going to try to grab a couple tins of this. Hopefully it's still available - Mars doesn't list it right now, not sure who else carries Heinrich's online.
More to come!
Looking forward to the rest of you sharing your experiences! 8)
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