Josiah Brown's Nutty Mix Pipe Tobacco Reviews

Upon opening the packet, I immediately loved this blend's pungent leathery aroma, which reminded me a bit of McConnell's Oriental Mixture or some other highly fragrant English blend. Prepared to relish a latakia-laden evening pipe, I was stunned by the taste that was produced when the tobacco succumbed to the flame of the match.

The first hit of flavour was not Oriental in its inspiration, but rather came from the blend's fully matured Virginia base, whose creaminess recalls varieties such as Condor, Digger or Bosun Cut Plug. The smooth-smoking, aromatic quality of this base is omnipresent throughout the smoke, and it times it seems to dominate the overall flavour, however, the darker oriental tobaccos are equally assertive.

The result is an unparallelled full, nutty taste that has got to the richest taste sensation I've yet to experience in an English latakia blend. This is also quite a heady tobacco and not the best thing to smoke on an empty stomach. While smoking this at a bar one evening, two people commented that its compelling aroma - which is simultaneously woodsy and "Condoresque" - smelled like incense.

Medium-cut, with the occasional piece of flake tobacco still partially intact, this blackish-coloured blend with reddish brown flecks burns slowly to a perfectly dry, fine white ash.