A wonderful complex secret recipe of the finest Virginias, choice Turkish and Orientals and Cyprian Latakia, all hand blended together, hard pressed and broad cut into thick flakes. Smallish tin fits in pocket or carrying case well. An elegant flake presentation. It makes me hungry. I'm buying multiple tins of this stuff. Pack it loosely and don't tamp it down much at all. Highly recommended if you can get your hands on it. The first time I smoked this it was remarkable. I have smoked from both older and newer production and in my experience they are fairly consistent and equally excellent. To my way of thinking, it's like drinking decaffeinated coffee. Esoterica Tinned Pipe Tobaccos The smoking experience is as smooth as buttered velvet. I do recommend you to try, because I am in the minority, but in a word- bitter. The smokey latakia is perfectly balanced by the orientals that are savory and incense like, both supported by a dark mellow sweetness. The latakia seems in just about the correct proportion to not overpower the Orientals which dominate the flavor. Full of character and smokey latakia. I remember! I think that when you leave it half open on the ground it would make a fine ant-exterminator. Holy is a perfect intensifier for my description of this offering: holy mole, holy cow, and holy mackerel are just a few. Latakia is the main ingredient in this and it has faded a lot over time. Mild Latakia flavor with bakers chocolate undertone. The second was Frog Morton. I tried Penzance on a recommendation looking for a fuller English than what I usually smoke. I KNOW that I'll go out tomorrow and buy a bagfull!!!! The flake crumbles marvellously and, in raw form, I am rather charmed by this offering. The aftertaste is stronger too, but if you like English tobaccos you wouldn't complain. The second half of the bowl is where this tobacco comes into its own with a very nice woody, toasty flavor. Esoterica's Cardiff is an outstanding, well-balanced mixture of four Virginias, pressed until reddish-brown and then fully rubbed up. I can understand how someone can say that the latakia used here is quite strong and complex, but I certainly wouldn't classify the aroma on the periodic table. I doubt it as Ive found some readily available blends that I enjoy equally as much. Price? Lo-and-behold, there was an 8-oz. Works well in any size briar or meerschaum. Updates on New Cigars, Pipes, Pipe Tobacco, Accessories, I got my hands on this first in early 2010 and I just didnt get along with it. Purchased From: trade amidst the interpixels. I've realized I like good clean English blends rather than dark, compressed, soil-y tobaccos. This is a great evening smoke. My brothers nieghbor dropped me off this as I had given him tobacco to try in the past. Smoke it fast or smoke it slow ? Woodbridge is a wonderfully complex mixture of six light Virginias, - Charles Lamb. Inside was a styrene boat only sealed well enough to contain the sliced tobacco. of Burley and air-cured leaf provide Tilbury's unique natural aroma This is the king of all latakia blends! All others pale in comparison. With the waiting lists that some of these retailers have these days, I figured I would save myself a lot of time and trouble by just laying low. The latakia remained ever present. Rich, intense and creamy, this blend is one of my top picks. Always consistant in flavor, form and function. I have only smoked about three bowls. Open the tin, and you are hit with an intoxicating rich smell of fuel-oil. I roll it out fairly fine, and pack it so there is just the slightest resistance to the draw. I wanted to be just as cool as the 60-year old guy sitting in his underwear hiding in his closet from his beast-of-a-wife and posting on the internet bragging about his non-existent scrooge McDuck supply of Penzance. I was pleasantly surprised when I happened upon this blend at a tobacconist, since a tin of Penzance is about as common as a solar eclipse these days due to huge demand, astronomical hype and hoarding. I have vastly enriched my smoking pleasure from the reviews I've read here. You may appreciate that if you are a gardener, it is like the smell of fresh loamy garden soil, perhaps with a bit of mulch. Incredibly smooth and flavorful from start to finish. I don't know but the majority of reviewers say it contains an extremely mild flavoring. She isn't particularly impressed with the vaper flakes I favor. Penzance is one of them. Quite possibly the world's most perfect tobacco. They had two 8-ounce bags of Penzance, along with two 8-ounce bags of Stonehaven, and I bought both for a total cost of $260. It's a remarkable blend, but surely not as venerable as the nu-tweedsters might have us believe. I can`t put my finger on what makes it so tasty, but this blend is worth a try. The smoke was extremely woodsy from what must be a higher grade Latakia used back then. I love many of the GLP and C&D blends, and still have yet to try some of them, but this is the tobacco that won me over to smoking latakia blends in the first place, and sent me in search of rich oriental blends. Great, complex and smooth as velvet. old, the Tilbury blend is a potent tobacco that may cause dizziness. Utterly, completely recommended. Limit One Bag Per Customer It packs well enough. Another keeper for my monthly shopping list. The cut is good and the humidity is just fit for immediate enjoyment. Smokey and sweet. I prefer Presbyterian mix, and squadron leader over this also. As a matter of fact, the entire second half of the bowl, that's all I could think of. I have tried so many blends.I am finding my self always coming back to penzance. A marriage of air-cured leaf and Burley with selected dark Virginia is hard pressed and aged to produce brown flakes with rich, dark undertones. Esoterica's Tilbury is a harmonious blend of golden and dark Virginias with small portions of Burley and air-cured leaf. "I am not a man" - (tobacco).."I am Cantona!" No doubt you can taste the Latakia & Orientals. Relights occur sometimes but are not a nuisance because they are not harsh. The less available this becomes, the more people are going to seek it. The only thing that helped fight that horrible taste was a nice bowl of Mac Baren Mixture! Definitely purchase some if you can find it. I've been avoiding adding many more words to the reviews. I am in the camp that Esoterica has a special and proprietary topping. Nice rectangular golden tin with a label that looks like it was printed at home. I did look for mold with a magnifying glass and couldn't see anything obvious but there were a few suspicious flakes. Several other Esoterica blends have that same iodine scent as a noticeable component of the tin bouquet. I smoked aromatics when I began pipe smoking a year ago, but this is what I smoke. I believe that Penzance will one day be for me as it is with many of the conniseurs of the pipe. While I find it a delicious and refined blend, it is not worth the insane hype that surrounds it. Returns. This happened once when I had to fight to get it lit, and tended this way toward a couple of late bowls. I would like to keep some on hand, but I didn't find it miraculous enough to scour the deepest ends of the Earth just to pay $50 for an 8 oz. For latakia fanatics, such as myself, this is a fabulous all day smoke too. May this always be in production. They are tender flakes that crumble more than seperate but the end result provides easy packing and a fantastic burn rate. Our Little River, SC showroom, Low Country Pipe & Cigar, is open 10am-7pm US/Eastern Monday - Saturday at 2 Hwy 90 East, Little River SC, 29566. It is very consistent across tins - you can rely on it. Size: 8 Oz. The sliced tobacco was fairly crumbled by now so I filled a revirginalized (Thank you Tom Wolfe) Savenelli billiard as I would usually with fore finger tamping until the pipe was full. A load needs to dry out for 30 minutes or so before smoking. Now I'm having trouble getting him to try other blends to broaden his palette!! There's no mistaking that this is an English, but there's some flavor there that's just out of reach. This is the real deal! I became excited and quickly replied to the ad demanding that I be sold/given penzance immediately and that I would do anything for the chance. They smell exactly like other Esoterica Virginias with whatever casing they use to process their leaf. after reading many of the reviews i think i may have gotten lucky with the tin. Perhaps it is because you don't like us? Nice! Wife and friends think it smells like a pig stall in the tin and smoke, but after they tasted it in the bowl love it! Even so, when I opened the cardboard, I could smell the latakia with the tin sealed and wrapped in plastic wrap. When others share your passions it doubles your pleasure. Recommend to all English blend enthusiasts, and the Va/Per smokers who like to kick it up a notch, on occasion. When something is built up to be this great you can only be let down. This is not a complex blend and changes very little from beginning to end.
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