Savinelli Giubileo d'Oro

(3.21)
A zesty blend of Virginias from the U.S. and Brazil, mixed with creamy Cyprian latakia and cold-pressed for a light, sophisticated all-day English mixture

Details

Brand Savinelli
Blended By Scandinavian Tobacco Group
Manufactured By Mac Baren
Blend Type Virginia/Latakia
Contents Latakia, Virginia
Flavoring
Cut Flake
Packaging 50 grams tin
Country Denmark
Production No longer in production

Profile

Strength
Mild to Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

3.21 / 4
5

7

2

0

Reviews

Please login to post a review.
Displaying 1 - 10 of 14 Reviews
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 28, 2018 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
The smoky, woody, earthy, mildly musty, fairly creamy sweet Cyprian Latakia is the lead component, but not by much. The red, brown and bright Virginias offer some tangy ripe dark fruit, stewed fruit, plenty of earth, some wood and citrus, and a pinch or two of spice in a strong support role. The strength just misses the medium mark, while the taste level barely reaches the medium level. The nic-hit is just past the center of mild to medium. No chance of bite or harshness, and I detect no rough edges. The flakes easily break apart to suit your preference. Burns cool, clean, and slightly slow with a well balanced, consistently sweet and lightly savory flavor from start to finish. It’s not quite as complex as my description reads, but there’s just enough nuances involved to keep it from being totally one dimensional. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires a tad more than an average number of relights. Has a pleasant, lightly lingering after taste. Can be an all day smoke for the veteran and novice. Three and a half stars.

-JimInks
16 people found this review helpful.
Please login to upvote this review.
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 01, 2016 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium to Full Strong
Okay, I'm first. This only goes to show what cowards and sheep pipe smokers are. No one has tried this blend. What would happen if I bought a tin?? What could be inside? I'm scared!

I'll tell you what's inside. Flakes. Yup. Those perfect little gum-stick flakes 1.5mm thick that you-know-who makes. These are dark and delicious. Moisture in the tin is fine, you can dry a bit if you like. Rubs easily. Under the match, my first impression is wood, an interesting backbone for what is theoretically a va/lat blend. The latakia is flavorful but of a muted sort, nothing sharp in the nose at all. The virginia sweet and pretty zesty. By halfway through, this is chugging along offering no complicated flavors, but a nice balance of sweet, zesty, and smoky leaves.

Not the most exciting set of flavors in the world, and a little one dimensional if you compare it to an oriental-fest medium English like King Charles or something of that ilk. But tasty and easy to get along with. Not much for nicotine... it's there but not unfriendly.

I think in a few years, it will calm down some and be sublime. Fresh, it's good, and there are only a few blends like it on the market - if you like them, this is worth a try. Not as dirty/heavy as commonwealth, and not as sweet(ened) as McClelland offerings in this vein (Anniversary, Frog Morton).
Pipe Used: Castellos
PurchasedFrom: 4nogs
Age When Smoked: 6 months
14 people found this review helpful.
Please login to upvote this review.
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 31, 2016 Medium None Detected Medium Very Pleasant
Savinelli - Giubileo d'Oro.

I got this on a trade with my friend Franck (Gentleman Zombie) in the States, and I always get thrilled up by the blends he's able to send, although it paradoxically highlights that without the use of a computer there's not much to be had here in the U.K.!

The tin holds three rows of flakes that have quite a lot of yellow mottles over them, and they're a tad moist.

The taste of it is a little different to what the title English often implies, it's a bit smoother and milder, and nowhere near as caustic as some. My palate isn't ransacked by smokiness, instead there's a lot of cedar and hardly any smokiness. Even though the Latakia's the more prominent of the two leaves, the Virginia goes far from unnoticed: it gives a notable sweetness, and a nice touch of grass. G.d.O. burns well once it's lit, albeit, the few bowls I've had so far did require a somewhat tenacious igniting technique (they probably could have used a longer airing!).

Personally, I think the room-note's good, and the nicotine's about medium.

Franck, cheers buddy, here's to the next trade!

Highly recommended.
Pipe Used: Comoy's Elegance
PurchasedFrom: Traded with Gentleman Zombie
Age When Smoked: Tin dated September 2015
9 people found this review helpful.
Please login to upvote this review.
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 29, 2016 Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
The Latakia is mildly smoky with a fairly strong note of wood. It has a nice smoothness with only a very mild acrid note. The Virginias lend sweetness and a little spice and, like most Lat/Va blends, very little flavor-wise. The overall flavor is of a mildly sweet and somewhat spicy Latakia. Pretty one-dimensional, but that's ok with me. I've always had an affinity for Lat/Va smokes and this is a pretty good one.

Medium in body and taste. No added flavorings. Burns very well.
Pipe Used: MM Marcus, Country Gentleman, Mark Twain
PurchasedFrom: pipesandcigars.com
Age When Smoked: fresh
8 people found this review helpful.
Please login to upvote this review.
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Nov 24, 2018 Mild to Medium None Detected Mild to Medium Tolerable
Giubileo d’Oro is a very middle of the road English, not bad, but not especially good either. I enjoyed the flavor, but it was utterly forgettable in a crowed field of English blends. The fact that it’s a flake is probably more of a detriment than a bonus, as it makes prep that much more of a pita than it’s competitors. Flakes usually concentrate the flavors more than loose cut, but it doesn’t show here. I’m giving it 2 stars because there are so many more English blends that do the job better.
7 people found this review helpful.
Please login to upvote this review.
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 08, 2019 Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
Mostly black but with some light specks, these flakes are supremely pliable and wet but with some drying and a little dexterity, they can be folded and stuffed, which is how I preferred it. Mostly latakia scent in the tin nose.

Sasquatch really nailed this one. I never read reviews before I write mine, but I cheated and read his before I posted this. Didn't make any changes, which worked fine, because his review almost mirrors mine. So go read his and skip this one! LOTS of wood flavor initially, which made me wonder the cause, as there are no orientals or burley, which I usually associate with wood. Were I a "real" reviewer, I could discern the oak, cedar and hickory woods from the butternut and cherrywood! LOL. Drying this out thoroughly and removing that flavor-reducing moisture diminishes the woody quality somewhat and the blend takes on more of a smoky, zesty, savory character. The latakia leads by a small margin but, while it is flavorful, it isn't overly strong (except in the room note!). The Virginias are kind of non-descript on their own and no particular flavors jump out. This is just a worthy mix of Virginia and latakia that won't bonk you over the head with complexity or nicotine, and won't overwhelm you with subtleties. Once dried, how it starts is pretty much how it ends, with the exception of it getting a bit more potent. Pushing this one doesn't seem to alter it much, either. If you appreciate top-to-bottom seamlessness and a hefty but not brutish flavor, and you don't want to taste nuts, toast, bread, figs and the usual assortment of reviewer adjectives, try this one out.
5 people found this review helpful.
Please login to upvote this review.
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 03, 2020 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
Savinelli- Giubileo d’Oro

I found myself checking out the tobaccos at my “local pipe store”, I say local because it’s close to an hour away depending on traffic, but since I frequent this place almost every Sunday for pipe club it’s not as bad.

As I was searching through the selection I came across this blend, at first I had little interest but I saw the date on the back of the tin stated Sep2015, it peaked my interest.

I decided against my better judgement as I already have to many tins open, to open this one also, and am I happy I did.

Upon opening I was met with a smell of smoky Latakia, but with an even hint of fermented bread, this blend although almost 5 years old was still a little wet and therefore needed a little drying time, about 10 minutes. The tobacco cam in three rows of cleanly sliced strips, a little larger but just as thick as bubble gum.

Surprisingly this blend only has a few reviews although it’s been around for a while, may be that pipe smokers truly do stick to what they like, or that the advertising for these blends aren’t as frequent as other blenders.

The blend tastes fantastic, and I don’t know if I can attribute it to the aging or if it’s that’s great fresh from the tin, but the Virginia’s and Latakia work together like Batman and Robin, both together working with vs against each other.

The zesty and tangy Virginia’s added to the Latakias contemplative nature allowing one to sit back and embrace both equally adding an almost all spice essence. This blend smokes cool and needs minimal re-lights I fold and stuff the first flake and then rub out another half a flake and spread it on top to allow for equal charring.

3/4
Pipe Used: Bones Dublin, bones poker
PurchasedFrom: Liberty tobacco
Age When Smoked: 4 years 4 months
4 people found this review helpful.
Please login to upvote this review.
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 08, 2019 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
This is a no nonsense, all day english smoke. Upon lighting up the bowl you get a somewhat sweet, woodsy and grassy taste from the virginia and latakia. What this blend lacks in complexity, it makes up for in smoothness. The latakia has almost a creamy flavor that compliments the somewhat harsher flavors that Virginia's can provide. Overall I have to say the balance of tobaccos in this blend is spot on. I dont find myself demanding anything extra added. This blend really nails the niche demand I have of a simple light all day english smoke. Everytime I finish the bowl I'm perfectly ready to light up another.

Forward Tasting notes: grass, cedar, wood Underlying tasting notes: smokiness, leather, citrus

Pairings: nothing, light/medium coffee, black tea

Mechanics: it's a little wet out of the tin so it can be a tad difficult to get lit. Works well rubbed out or folded and stuffed and stays lit well. Smokes pretty cleanly and I can often find it goes all the way to white ash.

Time of day to smoke: all day

In summary the simplicity and lack of complexity should not be looked at as flaws, but instead embraced as the perfect all day smoke for the English lover.
Pipe Used: No name antique
PurchasedFrom: Thepipenook.com
Age When Smoked: 6 monthes
4 people found this review helpful.
Please login to upvote this review.
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 18, 2016 Medium Mild Medium to Full Pleasant to Tolerable
This Virginia and latakia blend is very good. The flake burned very well and evenly. The topping was detectable, but very pleasant and complimentary to the basic blend .It is very smooth for a latakia blend.
4 people found this review helpful.
Please login to upvote this review.
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 01, 2021 Mild to Medium None Detected Mild to Medium Pleasant
A fellow piper really wanted to try this one and I dug through my stash and found a tin I had bought a year or two ago dated Sep 2015. Nice medium brown flakes, chewing gum size that easily folded into my Charatan and lit up nice and smooth. My fellow piper really liked the room note (outdoors) and loaded his pipe as well. This is really a smooth, well crafted blend with a mild Latakia taste. I really enjoyed this one and so did my friend. Not much more for me to add, for no particular reason I do not smoke a lot of Latakia flakes. Either way a nice smoke that I would probably like more in the mornings with my coffee. Definitely not a Lat Bomb. A few other members have had this and actually stocked up on it.
Pipe Used: Charatan
Age When Smoked: 5 years
3 people found this review helpful.
Please login to upvote this review.

target="_blank"