DrStrangelove
12-11-2005, 04:45 AM
Dunhill London Mixture
Ok, let me start by admiting that my pipe tobacco palet is not very refined. If you ever think to yourself 'where the hell did he get ripe banana peel' reading some cigar reviews, I feel even more lost reading some of the pipe tobacco reviews on tobaccoreview.com sometimes.
But that aside, I packed a bowl of some Dunhill London Mixture that is from a tin i bought a few months ago. It has been opened for some time and is pretty dry, not dusty dry, but not moist by any means.
I packed it in my English pipe, a Bjarne 1/2 bent Billiard with a medium/large sized ball. The tobacco has a very pleasent half light tobacco/ half dark tobacco appearence in the tin and smells mildly of a unadulturated english blend, doesn't appear to be any curveball here.
It is described on the tin as "Medium Cut Matured; Virginian and Oriental Tobaccos; Soft and Mellow Flavour". I lit it up and it is had a very medium-bodied straight-forward tobacco flavor. It burned very dry and evenly with few relights and the taste remained cosistent until maybe the last 1/3rd of the bowl (that I'm finishing up now) when it started to get a little peppery and started to have some sweet notes.
All in all a tasty, yet plain tobacco. It could do as an all day smoke. I only notice a little nicotine buzz but I played some golf today and have already smoke like 3-cigars so I don't know if that's fair appraisal of it's nicotine content.
Final Verdict: I like it, and I think it would go well any time of the day.
Ok, let me start by admiting that my pipe tobacco palet is not very refined. If you ever think to yourself 'where the hell did he get ripe banana peel' reading some cigar reviews, I feel even more lost reading some of the pipe tobacco reviews on tobaccoreview.com sometimes.
But that aside, I packed a bowl of some Dunhill London Mixture that is from a tin i bought a few months ago. It has been opened for some time and is pretty dry, not dusty dry, but not moist by any means.
I packed it in my English pipe, a Bjarne 1/2 bent Billiard with a medium/large sized ball. The tobacco has a very pleasent half light tobacco/ half dark tobacco appearence in the tin and smells mildly of a unadulturated english blend, doesn't appear to be any curveball here.
It is described on the tin as "Medium Cut Matured; Virginian and Oriental Tobaccos; Soft and Mellow Flavour". I lit it up and it is had a very medium-bodied straight-forward tobacco flavor. It burned very dry and evenly with few relights and the taste remained cosistent until maybe the last 1/3rd of the bowl (that I'm finishing up now) when it started to get a little peppery and started to have some sweet notes.
All in all a tasty, yet plain tobacco. It could do as an all day smoke. I only notice a little nicotine buzz but I played some golf today and have already smoke like 3-cigars so I don't know if that's fair appraisal of it's nicotine content.
Final Verdict: I like it, and I think it would go well any time of the day.