Craven Mixture Pipe Tobacco Reviews
This is reputed to be the famed Arcadia Mix around which the late 1800s' book My Lady Nicotine revolves. It's an interesting blend to say the least because there have been moments where I haven't thought it was that good and then others where it seemed excellent.
While going through my 50-gram sample, it became mainly a morning or early-day smoke for me, in my 3/4-bent Genod pipe. It looks like a typical medium-to-full English blend: medium-cut, various shades and tones of dark brown punctuated by some lighter and yellower flecks.
It's a fairly strong smoke, stronger than it is rich. Although it seems to contain a fair amount of latakia, it's not as soft as I might expect. On the other hand, it's not quite harsh either, although an unexperienced smoker could possibly find it harsh. It's this strength that isn't tempered by a heavy smoothness that I found slightly offputting at first. The flavour is quite unified and the smoke has a constant and consistent taste and body from start to end.
I have a great deal of difficulty identifying the individual elements in this mixture. It might be the presence of a certain quantity of perique or burleys, or the lack or soft Orientals, or even the usage of a particular Virginia in the blend that gives this blend a strong, yet lively taste that grew on me.
There isn't any of the natural sweetness in this blend that charaterizes many English blends, just straight, pure, strong tobacco flavour, and at times I have even found the taste to have a vaguely sourish note―which suggests perique to me. However, the more I smoke it, the more I like it. The smoke is of medium body, even though its flavour is full.
When I try to think why someone would like this blend, it would inevitably be because it provides straight up-front tobacco taste in the English style, but without a heavy, creamy latakia or oriental character underneath. This means that it is somewhat sharper than many heavy English blends, though I still wouldn't characterize it as a sharp tobacco.
Although I don't find to be a tongue-biter, I can imagine that constant smoking of this mixture would be pretty strong on the tongue in the long run. Leaves a strong English-style aroma in the room that, like its flavour, is full and bears no sweetness.
If I try to compare it to other tobaccos I've had, I can't say that one comes to mind, but I could fathom it being a bit like Balkan Sobranie 759 in strength, but with all the rich, sweet Orientals subtracted. From what I understand, this is the same tobacco that used to come in a pink tin and is now only made occasionally.
It was being sold in bulk by Blatter and Blatter, Montreal, but I've heard that it has become unavailable again.
While going through my 50-gram sample, it became mainly a morning or early-day smoke for me, in my 3/4-bent Genod pipe. It looks like a typical medium-to-full English blend: medium-cut, various shades and tones of dark brown punctuated by some lighter and yellower flecks.
It's a fairly strong smoke, stronger than it is rich. Although it seems to contain a fair amount of latakia, it's not as soft as I might expect. On the other hand, it's not quite harsh either, although an unexperienced smoker could possibly find it harsh. It's this strength that isn't tempered by a heavy smoothness that I found slightly offputting at first. The flavour is quite unified and the smoke has a constant and consistent taste and body from start to end.
I have a great deal of difficulty identifying the individual elements in this mixture. It might be the presence of a certain quantity of perique or burleys, or the lack or soft Orientals, or even the usage of a particular Virginia in the blend that gives this blend a strong, yet lively taste that grew on me.
There isn't any of the natural sweetness in this blend that charaterizes many English blends, just straight, pure, strong tobacco flavour, and at times I have even found the taste to have a vaguely sourish note―which suggests perique to me. However, the more I smoke it, the more I like it. The smoke is of medium body, even though its flavour is full.
When I try to think why someone would like this blend, it would inevitably be because it provides straight up-front tobacco taste in the English style, but without a heavy, creamy latakia or oriental character underneath. This means that it is somewhat sharper than many heavy English blends, though I still wouldn't characterize it as a sharp tobacco.
Although I don't find to be a tongue-biter, I can imagine that constant smoking of this mixture would be pretty strong on the tongue in the long run. Leaves a strong English-style aroma in the room that, like its flavour, is full and bears no sweetness.
If I try to compare it to other tobaccos I've had, I can't say that one comes to mind, but I could fathom it being a bit like Balkan Sobranie 759 in strength, but with all the rich, sweet Orientals subtracted. From what I understand, this is the same tobacco that used to come in a pink tin and is now only made occasionally.
It was being sold in bulk by Blatter and Blatter, Montreal, but I've heard that it has become unavailable again.
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