Benton
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I'm about 1/3 of the way through my first tin of Wessex Burley Slice -- what a great tobacco. It is all burley in the best possible way: mild tasting, very faintly sweet, nutty-cocoa flavors, toasty aroma, thick smoke, excelent burning, generous nicotine kick.
It has been a while since I had Solani Aged Burley Flake, but they are very similar. I'm wondering if the similarity has something to do with the burning charactaristics that come from the thick-flake presentation. Maybe the slow burning that comes from a thick, moist flake is what brings out the best in the burley?
BTW, I'm also working on a tin of MacBaren Golden Extra, which you would think would be very similar to WBS or ABF. Golden Extra is also straight burley in a thick, broken flake, but I don't enjoy it nearly as much. It has a distinctive "MacBaren flavor" that just doesn't go away. It isn't foul tasting, but it is an obviously non-tobacco flavor that sticks around all the way to the bottom of the bowl.
Anyway, WBS is a great everyday smoke for burleyphiles. It won't knock your socks off with bizzare and unusual new flavors, but it is the kind of smoke that can set things right after a long, hard day when you can't take any more surprizes.
It has been a while since I had Solani Aged Burley Flake, but they are very similar. I'm wondering if the similarity has something to do with the burning charactaristics that come from the thick-flake presentation. Maybe the slow burning that comes from a thick, moist flake is what brings out the best in the burley?
BTW, I'm also working on a tin of MacBaren Golden Extra, which you would think would be very similar to WBS or ABF. Golden Extra is also straight burley in a thick, broken flake, but I don't enjoy it nearly as much. It has a distinctive "MacBaren flavor" that just doesn't go away. It isn't foul tasting, but it is an obviously non-tobacco flavor that sticks around all the way to the bottom of the bowl.
Anyway, WBS is a great everyday smoke for burleyphiles. It won't knock your socks off with bizzare and unusual new flavors, but it is the kind of smoke that can set things right after a long, hard day when you can't take any more surprizes.
