Dan Tobacco Kriswill Medium Navy Cut

(3.22)
A full-bodied traditional flake tobacco prepared from selected Virginia leaf with a high content of natural sweetness. A pinch of Louisiana perique is added to increase the richness in taste. Gently matured to bring out its optimum of natural tobacco flavours. Slow burning in your pipe this tobacco provides a pleasantly cool smoke of full bodied sweet taste with gentle spice in the background.

Details

Brand Dan Tobacco
Blended By Dan Tobacco
Manufactured By  
Blend Type Virginia/Perique
Contents Perique, Virginia
Flavoring
Cut Flake
Packaging 50 grams tin, 250 grams bulk
Country Germany
Production Currently available

Profile

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

Average Rating

3.22 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 17, 2019 Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant
The Virginias are fairly grassy/hay-like with a deep burst of tart and tangy citrus (much of it is orange), a mild touch of tart lemon, earth and wood, and a hint of floral and sugar. The rather spicy, plummy, figgy, raisiny perique is a condiment, but here and there it recedes into the background a mite. The strength and taste levels are medium. The nic-hit is just past the center of mild to medium. Won’t bite, but may be a tad tingly if puffed fast. Has a very light rough edge once in a while. Burns slightly warm, a little slow, and very clean with a mostly consistent deeply sweet flavor from top to bottom. Leaves little moisture in the bowl, and requires a few relights. Has a pleasantly, lightly lingering after taste and room note. Not quite an all day smoke, but it’s not so strong as to prevent repetition during your smoking day.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 19, 2017 Medium to Strong None Detected Medium to Full Pleasant
When my order from Dan Pipe arrived a few minutes ago, I was already very excited to try Peterson's Irish Flake, which was part of that order. But as I sticked my nose into one of the three samples that came with my order I had to put the Irish Flake aside for later.

As I haven't got a tin of it, I can only tell about the "plastic-bag-note". Kriswill's Medium Navy Cut (Blue) exudes a seductive scent of orangy, sweetish fruits. Aromas of figs, lemons, oranges and a hint of hay. Incredible - this must be the most seductively smelling tobacco I've had up to this point. The smell is so appetizing and beguiling, that I had to try this instantly. My girlfirend (who doensn't smoke the pipe) commented on the smell: "mhhhhhh.....FRUITY!"

As Dan Pipe ships samples of flakes as broken flakes I can't comment on the flakes appearance. But the tobacco is medium brown, with some golden and orange/yellow sprinkles. Excellent quality and condition. As usual with DTM -Flakes there's no glue used, so the flakes crumble apart pretty easy. I prefer no glue, even tho it's crumbly then.

On first light you get enchanted by a very refreshing smoke. A deep fruitiness of figs, plums and a touch of lemon and orange in the back. A pleasant pepper-note joins in and leaves a tingling mouth-feel, which I find very delightful. A slight grassy and hay-ish note rounds off the whole thing to make it a (imo) perfect smoke. Very natural, very refreshing and exciting. The Perique really shines in this one. It's very present, yet never obtrusive, nor biting. Just honest tobacco taste.

EDIT: I can't help but notice a chocolate-ish note in this tobacco. This is the 3rd blend of DTM that contains Perique and tastes chocolaty. I start to believe it's either the sort of Perique Dan Pipe is using, or it's some kind of ghosting from a chocolate tobacco thats produced nearby. I don't know, but it's damn delicious! Very tempting aroma of milky chocolate. Just very subtle, yet noticeable in almost every puff. Absolutely delightful imo!

For a VA/PER I find it to be very spicy and tangy with a good pinch of "oomph" in it. For m perception Kriswill Medium Navy Cut is a bit spicier and full in smoke than most VA/PERs I got to taste. Definetly a medium+ strenght.

Oh my...what a surprising smoke this is! I wasn't expecting that much, when I ordered a sample of it, but I got proofed wrong. This is a high-class masterpiece of tobacco craftsmanship in my humble opinion. It's just very refined and simply tasty in it's simplicity.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 21, 2016 Mild None Detected Mild Pleasant
A gifted tin of the Kriswill line by Dan Tobacco arrived at my home from a good friend in Denmark a few years ago. I recently got a batch of Kriswill pipes to sell on eBay and it reminded me of this Medium Navy Cut. I rummaged through the old cellar and out it came. I do not know if this tobacco is still being produced but it was quite good. The flakes fall apart easily and the Virginia is quite good - Bright with hints of Red. The Perique was very lightly presented and played peek a boo with the smoking experience the entire bowl. Mild in strength and character.

Pipestud
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 24, 2013 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium to Full Pleasant
This is great. Very blonde leaf in the tin with a few dark (perique) strips every now and then. it's offered as a flake, however, in my tin, it was almost like a ready rubbed with huge chunks of flake as soon as you touch it, because they fall apart easily. the tobacco, even though on the dryer side, feels soft and smells incredibly delicious. what I get from the tin note is a hint of chocolate, dried fruit, hay - just that general spiciness in smell yopu get with good virginias and vapers. the flavor while smoking after packing (one of the easiest packs ever...)is great. creamy, a little hay-like, surprisingly spicy (not hot!) and somewhat dark, as opposed to appearance. highly recommended and great value for your money!
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 13, 2023 Mild None Detected Mild Pleasant
- The tobacco is more on citrusy and tangy side , i can say there are 50% citrusy , 25% tart and also 15% hay and 10% rasin scents there

- I don't feel much pirique in there

-The flakes are find so you can use fold a stuff but you need to dry it a bit

- It burns relatively cool

-It worth trying but for me it can be time to time smoke and i won't miss it
Pipe Used: Peterson, Brebbia, Design Berlin...
PurchasedFrom: tecon-gmbh.de
Age When Smoked: Fresh
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 25, 2020 Mild to Medium None Detected Mild Unnoticeable
I'm making an assumption here with this blend. My tin says 'Kriswill Classical Navy Cut' so I have guessed - rightly or wrongly - that this is the latest version of this blend. Gotta be the same, surely ?

It's actually a damn good blend as well. The flake strips that await you are welded together in a pile, for want of a better word. This mass is sticky and very dark in colour, punctuated here and there with a faint golden fleck. It breaks up easily enough enough despite the moisture level. The wetness seems to go away after the tin is opened.

The smoke itself isn't particularly memorable, but not totally dull either. I've grumbled about these German virginia types being all the same in the past, but the addition of perique raises this a shade about the others I have tried.

Apart from the obvious flavours here I can't detect much else in here, and I've finished the tin.

The biggest reason for buying this has got to be the price. Way less than anything you can get in the UK - still. This isn't one of the cheapo German blends either, so well worth buying if you can.
Pipe Used: Briars
PurchasedFrom: Dan Pipe, Germany
Age When Smoked: New
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 07, 2023 Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant
This is the second blend that I recently bought in bulk from Estervals, the other being also a VaPer from Dan Tobacco in the form of St Bernard Flake. There is quite a contrast between the two with this blend being more Virginia forward and the Perique being used as more of a condiment. The whole effect is somewhat like a theoretical love child between Capstan Blue and Solani 633. On opening the jar, I am met with a fruity melange and some prominent yeasty bready notes. The aroma is very seductive and it is almost begging to be smoked with the moisture at a perfect level for instant gratification. I loaded a Falcon using the Frank method as my first two bowls were a tad hot, (though not biting). I judged that this would provide a long slow cool burn and this proved to be so. Lighting up was simplicity and it burned beautifully at a slow pace with no heat problems, in fact it was the coolest of smokes for the entire duration. Taste was consistent after the initial light and it provided high grassy notes with an orange tang and a lot of bready flavours. This intensified as the bowl progressed, with more influence from the Perique and a lemon grass tang and raisin sweetness with a mild hint of a peppery tingle on the tongue. Room note is very pleasant as you would hope from the quality leaf used. Golden Virginias and a lot of brights with a good dose of mid brown and a hint of fruity reds. Nicotine is a solid medium, though not a problem for most smokers. I tend to avoid the grassy lemony Virginias as they tend to bite, but this proves that there exceptions to this rule. All in all a very likeable blend and one that I heartily recommend.
Pipe Used: Falcon
PurchasedFrom: Estervals Pipe House
Age When Smoked: Fresh
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 19, 2019 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
One of my favourite Va/Per Flakes. Reminds me of more exciting version of DDLNR. The virginia tobaccos have a citrus and orange taste underlayed with an thick sweet creaminess. The perique has a raisiny taste with a hint of chocolate. The spiciness of the perique suits very well in this combination of aromas. The taste changes during the smoke with every puff you make. Sweet and spicy citrus or chocolate raisins with some pepper and hints of orangezest....Never boring and easy to smoke! Easy 4 Star rating!
Pipe Used: Corncob
Age When Smoked: Fresh
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 25, 2023 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium to Full Unnoticeable
Myself and another fine fellow, left the Golden State last summer. I in AR, he in TN. He was driving back from San Diego and I asked him to take a detour to visit so we could catch up. He stayed over and we did quite of tobacco swapping. I got to try 3 flakes of this tobacco that he saved for me and found it very well made. The flakes were medium brown with a lot of light striated throughout. The taste for me was medium-full with a mild-medium strength. If I had to guess, this sort of reminds me of Peterson’s Irish Flake. The tin is from Germany, so I can’t read all of the warning labels fortunately. I am almost certain this is the same blend but on my blue tin it is labeled as “Classical Navy Cut” vice “Medium Navy Cut”. Nonetheless, good stuff.
Pipe Used: Altinay Meerschaum
PurchasedFrom: Gift
Age When Smoked: New
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