Lane Limited HS-3

This light and darker grassy, lightly tart and tangy citrusy, sugary Virginia cavendish blend has light vanilla and honey toppings. Gets weaker toward the finish, and isn't strong to begin with. Has very little nicotine and strength. The taste is mild. Won't bite, or get harsh. Has no rough moments. Burns cool and clean at a reasonable pace with a very consistent sweet flavor, and a weak, pleasant after taste, and room note. Leaves little moisture in the bowl, and requires an average number of relights. An all day smoke.

-JimInks

Lane Limited - HS-3.

My blend appears to be made almost entirely of brown Cavendish, it only includes a very small amount of black flecks. The aroma from the pouch is delicately aromatic, but it's hard to pigeon hole what exactly the additives are. Chocolate and nuts maybe? The ribbons are just below medium in size, and the hydration's very good.

The smoke's quite nice from HS-3, but I find the same problem with identifying the aromatics as I did in the aroma. Again, it tastes of something sweet, and maybe a few nuts. The tobaccos give me a cleaner Cavendish taste, as opposed to the heavy, sticky, vanilla type one I'd expect to get from a regular Cavendish blend. A bowl of HS-3 burns well, but it can give me a small bite, if I puff with force.

The room-note's pleasant, and the nic's mild.

HS-3? To me, it's only a 'two star, alright' blend. A bit boring.

Somewhat recommended.

Lane Limited Bulk No. HS-3

Star Rating = 2

Rating Scores - 10 is the Best and 0 is the Worst

Pouch Note = 8

Room Note = 7

Flavor = 6

Bite = 6

Burn = 6

After Taste = 5

Raw Score = 38

Rated Percentage = 63%

Comment = Fruity, a little Hot at the end, has an Fruity After Taste

Bought this to try and also to mix with some other tobacco that I had. In the bag, I can't detect much aroma at all, and once lit, it's really mild. Room note is OK, but nothing to get to excited about. I have mixed it with Lane TK-6 and together I get sort of a chocolate-cherry aroma in the pouch. Once lit, room note is very slight, but certainly would not offend anyone. Just really not enough flavor. Not topping, not tobacco, not......, but that's just my taste. Can't get any bite, so this might be a good place to start for a new pipe smoker.

This is the least aromatic of Lane's aromatic cavendish tobaccos that I have tried. It leans towards more of a mild lightly cased burley tobacco, a bit sweeter though; Sort of halfway between Prince Albert and Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic. It has a slight roasted nut bouquet with a faint note of vanilla in the background just rounding it out. There is a mild straight forward brown sugar sweetness along with a earthy air cured note. I found this rather pleasing for what it is. There didn't seem to be any black cavendish despite the description. It's not an overly moist tobacco and in fact Lane seems to be throttling back on the humectant these days. Anyone looking for a more rounded and slightly sweeter tobacco over blends like Prince Albert and other simple ribbon cut burley blends should give this a try.

I bought this because the description was well written, by itself it isn't extraordinary however you can mix it with other tobacco and it can improve some blends that end a little harsh. I have mixed this 50/50 with lane BCA and it is very satisfying from start to finish.

I received an ounce of this as part of a blind test (which I failed) a month or so ago and finally got around to finishing it. Mostly a lightly creamed coffee color with some streaks of black in it. Excellent pouch aroma, if you like the aroma of non-tobacco ingredients in tobacco... which i do.

Not much to say about this one. The description above is very accurate, as this one has very faint flavor and tons of room note. I get hazelnut from this one, but I won't swear to that, as I'm terrible at placing non-tobacco tastes in a blend. But the flavor is very subdued. As a result, this one screams to be a mixer, so I picked up another few oz from a local tobacconist (who was loathe to tell me his house blend was really this!). Using my favorite blending tobacco that's not named perique, C&D's Kelly's Coin, yielded... Kelly's Coin that can be smoked around others. Which was the point. The KC completed obliterated any flavor this HS-3 had, even when only 10% KC was added. I experimented further with this but the results were either not so good or pointless... which is how I'd lean towards describing this blend. 1.75 stars. Try it if you like very, very mild taste with an incredibly luscious but not overpowering room note.

HS-3... Sold as a bulk blend, that is made up of long thin strands of tobacco, mostly brown in color, with only traces of the black Cavendish said to be in this blend. Its aroma is typical of other Lane tobaccos.

As for the taste of HS-3, there is plenty, but is unlike any other Lane tobacco I've tried, it has some sharpness to it, that I kind of enjoy, but this sharpness will ghost a pipe in short order. So I would suggest you use a dedicated pipe for this blend, because IMO HS-3's unique flavor does not mix well with many other tobaccos.

Personally I found zero tongue bite, and considering its fine cut, HS-3 gave me a surprisingly long and cool smoke. Judging by the few reviews HS-3 has on this site, many ARO smokers out there have for some reason passed on this one. This stuff is not my favorite, but I smoke ARO's only as a change of pace, but for those that prefer ARO's, IMO this tobacco is worth a try.

I smelled a slight vinegar tone when I opened the pouch, once lit it made the room smell of vanilla. The flavor I got was of a plain nutty Burley. I will come back to this from time to time.

This is a nice tobacco. Beautiful brown strands almost like flakes.

I mix in a little Black Gold and I get a very tasty cool smoke in my Ebauchon self carved pipe. I highly recommend this mixture. I think HS-3 would mix well with any black cavendish. Normally I mix some lighter tobacco with a black cav. With HS-3 I do it the other way and mix in a little black cavendish.

And of course others will like the aroma.

Three Stars *** for sure.

Addendum: Unfortenately I bought some more from an online vendor and It's not nearly as good as the local bulk. So the consistency is not there.

Added: I doused this with some cheap rum in a tray and let it dry in the sun. This worked well. It burns better and is tastier and smoother. Be carefual about drying tobaccos in the sun as they can get overdried very quickly. Check often.