Georgetown's Night Owl Pipe Tobacco Reviews

This is a smooth-smoking black-cavendish based blend with a distinct vanilla flavour and probably with chocolate as well. I always find chocolate flavouring difficult to identify, so I may be out of line here, but there is a flavour in this that reminds me of something I tasted in Finck's Imperial Chocolate.

It also has a discreet tanginess that develops mainly during the second half of the bowl (could it be a touch of an alcohol flavouring?). Unlike many black-cavendish blends, this one is dry on the fingers and it smokes dry as well, reminding me of Russell's Quintessence #1.

Medium-cut and consisting of about 80% black tobaccos and occasional light-yellowish speckles, this provides a rich-bodied, creamy, bite-free smoke that you could easily smoke all day. It is very mild in nicotine content, yet a satisfying smoke due to its fairly full body.

Something I like about this blend is that I do seem to taste its aroma as I smoke, which although fairly sweet, still has a little bit (a very little bit) of a slightly musty tobacco aroma underneath that I find appealing. Then again, I have been smoking this in a short, stubby Royal Danish whose bowl sits close to my nose while smoking.

I guess I have a bit of a weakness for black cavendish blends as far as aromatics go, but this is defintitely amongst the better ones I've tried, with its rich, full, and yet very soft, taste. In fact, it's soft enough that it's still a good smoke if you've been unfortunate enough to get tongue bite. It's one of the coolest smokes I've had in a long time. Very pleasant blown out the nose and it's even mild if inhaled.

I suspect that the small quantity of lighter tobaccos in the mixture liven it up a bit, making it not as flat in character as some black-cavendish blends are. It burns down to a fine, pale-grey ash, mixed with a bit of dry dottle. Thanks Spiffyng for the generous sample.