HH Vintage Syrian by MacBaren
Review submitted by Steve Laug
Just smoked a third bowl of this tobacco. MacBarens says this about it on the package write up:
A little under half of the volume is a smooth, and yet powerful Latakia from Syria. This tobacco gives the blend the overall "smoky" taste. To add a spicy note to the blend, Turkish Oriental has been added. Different Virginia tobaccos from three continents add a sweet natural taste. To complete the taste with depth and body we added some Dark Fired Kentucky from the USA.
The pouch aroma is complex - I can smell the Latakias, the pungent Oriental, and the sweet Virginia. I cannot smell any of the "usual MacBarens topping". That is good! The blend is the right moisture content and packs very easily. It lights with one burn- no charring light necessary.
The flavour from the beginning is a nice mouthful of flavours that all come out through out the taste. The smoke in the room note is not too bad (maybe a Latakia that I can smoke in the house with the women in my life).
The flavour is complex and enjoyable. It shifts and changes as the bowl progresses. One minute the Latakia is dominant, then I feel the dry tang of the Oriental come through at the edges of the tongue. The sweet Virginia tang is underneath and the Kentucky burley adds a nuttiness and body to the taste. This is a good smoke.
The last half of the bowl is equally good. The flavours shift back and forth just as they did in the first half of the bowl. I like this one. I think it is one I will go back to again and again. I am primarily a Virginia and Va/Per smoker so this is a great transition blend to me. Pungent yet sweet! I like this far better than the HH Vintage Virgina which I found monochromatic in flavour.
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Thanks for registering and submitting the reviews Steve. I hope more people will do the same.
I’ve only had the small sampler of this blend that Mac Baren sent me when this pipe tobacco was new, and wouldn’t have reviewed it myself, so I’m glad you did!
I remember it being a nice English, but don’t remember much else about it. I do have some tins in the cellar, maybe I’ll pop one once I smoke through some of the others I have open.
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