Reviews
Date Added: Tuesday 12 September, 2017
St Bruno is a firm favourite of mine. Fairly earthy smoke with some citrus flavours. Pleasant after taste and leaves a nice aroma in the room. Highly recommended
Date Added: Monday 29 June, 2015
Solani Festival Pipe Tobacco 50g Tin
by Staff
On opening the sample, your senses are immediately inundated by the aromatic aroma of plums, which gives you a good guide of treats to come. The tobacco is in coarse cut form, and the mix of the different tobacco leaf of black Cavendish---burley & Virginia looks very attractive, and in my sample had just the right moisture content. I found that it helps if you choose the correct size pipe, for using a small bowl makes the blend smoking experience slightly sharp on first lighting, so use a larger bowl to allow the blend to burn better, giving a smoother smoking experience. Try also moving between a briar pipe and a meerschaum, as the meerschaum adds a little extra to the overall experience, as a briar burns hotter with this blend. A cooler smoke allows the tobacco blenders art to come to its true fruition.
Using a meerschaum for my sampling, I found the following;
Strength; Mild to Medium.
Burning; Slow and cool.
Taste; A very pleasant plum like taste, with overtones hints from the mix of black Cavendish and Burley, of spicy nuts.
Date Added: Monday 29 June, 2015
Appearance; A close cut flake, very easy to break down in the hand resulting in a nice flake, easy to place in the pipe. Aroma; [before smoking] = pleasantly nutty. Smoking is as folows; A very deep and extremely pleasant taste from the mature Burley tobacco, with a hint of nuts, sweet after tastes and a hint of faint background spice. Cool and slow burning, if correctly packed into a briar pipe. [Note; if packed too tight, it will not burn smoothly, resulting in clinkers, however, if packed correctly, will burn to a white ash] Strength; Medium to strong [dependant on the experience of the smoker] Overall impression; An excellent Pipe Tobacco showing the best of the tobacco blenders art. Recommended for experienced Pipe Smokers only.
Alfie - Turmeaus Liverpool
Date Added: Friday 10 October, 2014
When I first smoked this I found it quite tame and the cherry and tobacco flavours were quite subtle. I tried it again a few weeks later and had quite a shock of how flavoured it had become, a new burst of cherry came through and the smoke was delightful. This is a really nice tobacco but I would recommend leaving it for a few weeks once opened to really get a full flavour.
Date Added: Wednesday 08 October, 2014
This tobacco doesn't have the strongest flavour but when it comes to a smooth smoke this is definitely the one to turn to. The subtle vanilla flavour really adds to such a smooth smoke allowing this to be a tobacco which can be enjoyed at any time of day.
Date Added: Thursday 02 October, 2014
It has to be said this is one of my all time favourite pipe tobaccos! The best thing about it is its just pure tobacco flavour, no additives, no aromas, just tobacco. Overall a cool, even burn which should not be missed!
