Gallaher Limited Condor Blended (Yellow)

(3.18)
Lighter and milder than the original with a rich flavour and medium strength producing a cool/slow burning smoke.
Notes: Previously known as Condor Mild. Was made in Ireland, now made in Poland.

Details

Brand Gallaher Limited
Blended By Japan Tobacco International
Manufactured By Japan Tobacco International
Blend Type Aromatic
Contents Virginia
Flavoring Other / Misc
Cut Ready Rubbed
Packaging 50 grams pouch
Country United Kingdom
Production Currently available

Profile

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

Average Rating

3.18 / 4
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Displaying 1 - 10 of 17 Reviews
Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 17, 2019 Medium Mild to Medium Medium Pleasant
The Virginias provide tangy deep dark fruit, earth, wood, and a bit of citrus and grass. The tonquin, Lakeland-like sweet, floral, kind of soapy, lightly sour topping greatly sublimates the tobaccos. The strength and taste thresholds are medium. The nic-hit is a couple of steps short of those levels. Won’t bite or get harsh. Needs a light dry time. Burns cool, clean, and little slow with a very consistent flavor from start to finish. Leaves a small amount of moisture in the bowl, and needs some relights. Has a pleasantly lingering after taste and room note. It is milder than regular Condor (same toppings), but may satisfy the craving for many smokers as it is an day day smoke. Three and a half stars.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 20, 2015 Mild Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
Condor-Blended . This is a blend I've been wanting to smoke for ages but have never got around to! I remember the old U.K. advert with the irritating old sailor on the canal, that always made me smile!

The mixture is quite dark and doesn't appear to be very coarse or chunky. It's not that the pieces are exactly miniscule but they are slightly finer and shorter than a lot of ready rubbed blends.

The smell that's emanating is a very raw one, woodsy, grassy, and slightly sweet, as if there's a touch of caramel in there.

I can't complain about this when it comes to lighting it, a few minor touches of the flame suffice brilliantly and once lit it gives a very stable burn.

The quantity of smoke this produces is immense. Now, that's good and bad. Good for me as I get oodles of fortuitous grassy and sweet Virginia smoke to savour on my palate but bad for any company in the room and also quite unpleasant from time to time when it gets in my eyes!

Although it says there's no additional flavours I get a very slight caramel type of taste. Similar to the initial aroma.

I agree with the other title of Condor Mild where nicotine is concerned, there couldn't be a more appropriate description!

I find the taste from this takes feeling calm to the next level. As pleasurable as this is, it becomes a bit boring after a while, as if maybe a touch of something lively needs incorporating to give it some excitement!

Initially this is a solid four stars for me but after a little while that rating slips to three.

Recommended.
Pipe Used: Nording Tulip
PurchasedFrom: My Smoking Shop
Age When Smoked: New
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 21, 2014 Mild Mild Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
This was recommended to me by a pipe smoker in Derry NI. When I first tried it I was taken by how sweet it was to smoke. It burns coolish and at a moderate rate with zero tonguebite. Sadly this blend is not available in the south of Ireland so I'm at the mercy of my travelling friends to supply me (duty in Ireland can be severe when importing tobacco by post!)

I've tried many other tobaccos and keep returning to this blend simply because it is so tasty. I regularly smoke Squadron Leader and some of the excellent James Fox tobaccos.

The sweet flavour remains right throughout the smoke and it leaves a nice after taste on the lips.

Try it....you might be very surprised

Pipe Used: Petersons System and Meerschaum
PurchasedFrom: Belfast
Age When Smoked: New
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 27, 2021 Extremely Mild None Detected Extremely Mild (Flat) Pleasant
Right, ok, where to begin?

It was very nearly Christmas and I realised I hadn’t bought any tobacco over a counter since the summer. To rectify this situation I took myself to the nearest supermarket that caters for the old at heart, such as myself - Morrison’s.

Upon sliding open the delightful door that they now have to deploy, to cover up the monochrome packets of tobacco and cigarettes that lurk within, should the youth see them, my mind was made up - “Condor; long cut preferably but ready rubbed if need be.”

And there she was, glowing like the North Star - Condor Blended - standing out amongst the brown boxes.

I’ve never tried it before but, being a fan of the flake version and noticing that this blend has been discontinued all over the internet, I thought I better buy a pouch - I’d hate to miss out on something and come regret it years down the line, when old me is looking back through Tobacco Reviews and thinking; “If only I’d bought that pouch.” I already do this with Warrior Plug, Mick McQuad’s, Rich Dark Honeydew, Condor Plug etc and I’m not going to make that mistake again! 🧐

Then, that hoarding part of my brain kicked in - “What if you really like it and you smoke through a pouch in a week? You know you’ll come back and then there’ll be none of it left, probably just the empty cardboard sleeve to wind you up - you better get two, just to be on the safe side.”

So I did.

I have spent the last, however many years, looking for a tobacco that I like as much as Condor flake or St Bruno flake, both of which have been altered in their more recent past but both are still fine tobaccos - two pouches should be fine.

Wrong.

This tastes of the square root of…absolutely nothing. I was flabbergasted…absolutely nothing.

The smell in the pouch is pleasant enough - something akin to brandy or rum, not like the brown or green Condors. This makes me think that it should be given a different name as it isn’t remotely a “Condor”.

The cut is minuscule - as thick as a ribbon cut but as long as a shag cut, very strange - leftover tobacco maybe? Floor sweepings?

This is reminiscent of the cheap, middle of the road lager preferred by teenagers. I don’t doubt that there is some nicotine in there, possibly some taste of something to the uninitiated but rather pointless in my humble opinion.

Maybe it’ll age nicely and my opinion or smoking needs might change? Maybe it’s going to be excellent to mellow out some heartier blends? Maybe I’ll look back and say “Bugger, I should’ve bought as much of the stuff as I could get my hands on!”

Maybe.

For now I’m regretting spending £34 on…nothing really.

I’m mildly surprised it lasted this long to be honest.
Pipe Used: Different
PurchasedFrom: Morrison’s
Age When Smoked: Been on the shelf for a while.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Aug 21, 2021 Mild to Medium Mild Mild to Medium Tolerable
To my mind, Condor Blended (formerly known as Condor Mild) is to 'proper' Condor - Long Cut or Ready Rubbed - as watery coffee is to proper espresso. All right if you like it, but very definitely not if you prefer the real thing. I expect the experienced palate will reject it as too mild and understated, but it would perhaps be a good entry level tobacco for the beginner. It smokes easily and behaves itself in the bowl, though it burns away surprisingly quickly. It certainly won't bite you, unless you really ask it to. Good for what it is, but, personally, I don't care for what it is. I see that it has lately been discontinued anyway, so this review is otiose now.
Pipe Used: Clifton billiard; Falcon
PurchasedFrom: Gift from a friend
Age When Smoked: Fresh from the shop
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Nov 02, 2017 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Mild Very Pleasant
Condor Blended offers a mixture of less dark leaf with an attenuated pouch aroma than the Ready Rubbed and Long Cut versions offer. Being very damp upon opening it was very difficult to get anything out f it. Once drier it still proved rather hard to keep lit, took for ever to smoke and had lost much of its taste. I ended up blending it with a tin of GL Pease The Virginia Cream that was too dry upon opening. The new mixture works very well, actually.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 13, 2013 Medium Mild to Medium Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
Condor Blended may have once been called Condor Mild, but if so, the 'mild' doesn't seem to apply as much to the underlying tobacco but to the casing. Most of the botanicals and other flavorings in regular Condor are missing, but it's still fairly flavored. One reviewer suggested brandy, but it tastes more like Tonquin to me. Compared to Lakelands, I'd say the casing is stronger than Glengarry's flavor, more similar to SG's but since I know there are many tobaccos out there I would rate a 4, the question arises would I rebuy this particular tobacco, assuming my tastes don't change much more. In this case, the answer is no.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 13, 2012 Medium Mild Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
Having absolutely adored Long Cut and Ready Rubbed, I finally decided to give this a go. Let's face it, after those, what could go wrong?

First off, the packet aroma is quite sweet, possibly a sweet brandy with a dash of port. Packing and lighting worked just as sweetly. Sadly, for the first few smokes I was relatively unimpressed by this, it was a bit rough hitting the back of the throat. It took a good few, perhaps ten, to finally get me into the the swing of this as eventually I began to warm to it, that sweet brandy flavour came through. A lack of tonguebite was quite a welcome surprise.

On the whole then, this doesn't win any awards and doesn't fair well against it's full blooded bigger brothers but nonetheless satisfies. Three stars is a fair assessment I think.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 01, 2012 Medium Mild Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
I'm going to give this a 4 as it is a lovely smoke. I don't think it's totally unlike the Condor ready rubbed - it has the same floral/soapy/vinous taste and aroma. No bite at all even though I'm a bit of a puffer. Might not be the baccy I'd choose for the desert island but it's certainly good.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 09, 2007 Medium Mild to Medium Full Strong
Good combustion, with trend to create dampness towards the end of the whiff. It supports the flavor until the end, combining the sweetness of the beginning with an evolution later to more earthy tones. It tastes Virginias, nothing to see with the Condor Original.
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