Sutliff Tobacco Company Taste of Autumn

(2.42)
Autumn invokes a sense of pleasure with splendid colors, brisk clean air and abundant harvests. The rich spicy flavors of autumn highlight this tasty Virginia and burley based Aromatic.

Details

Brand Sutliff Tobacco Company
Series Sutliff Private Stock
Blended By Carl McCallister
Manufactured By Sutliff Tobacco Company
Blend Type Aromatic
Contents Black Cavendish, Burley, Cavendish, Virginia
Flavoring Cinnamon, Other / Misc
Cut Coarse Cut
Packaging 1.5 ounce tin
Country United States
Production No longer in production

Profile

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

Average Rating

2.42 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
May 31, 2014 Medium Medium to Strong Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
A tasty medium aromatic with a multiplicity of flavors. The smell of the tobacco in the tin is much stronger than how it tastes. Pumpkin is one of the major players, though I perceive an essence of cooking wine. At the halfway point, I got bare hints of vanilla from the black cavendish, honey from the gold cavendish, and a very slight hay Virginia note. A touch of vanilla is also in the topping. There's all-spice, cinnamon, and nutmeg hits throughout the entire smoke. Won't bite or get harsh. Burns at a moderate pace, cool, clean and creamy smooth, though it may benefit from a slight dry time. Has a slight inconsistency of flavors as some weave in and out a mite. Leaves a little moisture in the bowl, but no goop. Needs an average number of relights. Has a very pleasant after taste. It's one of those blends where the taste grows on you after a few bowls. While it'll provide a nice seasonal treat as the name implies, it also makes a good summer time blend while you're out in the fresh air. Not quite an all day smoke.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 29, 2014 Medium Medium to Strong Medium to Full Pleasant
This 2-yr.-old tin, which I got on ebay for $4, has been one of the nicest little surprises in my pipe-smoking life. The other "Tastes of" blends (Summer, Spring, whatever) sold but this one kept getting relisted. Thought I: how bad can it be for $4?

Gents, ya' can't just go by reviews here. TOA was rated a 2.5 when I tried it. The tin note is strong chocolate with a vinegary pungency characteristic of aged Virginia. The smoke is wonderful, full of taste; enough nicotine to validate the blend for me but not a nicotine bomb. Amazing--how something can taste so different than the tin note. TOA's poor reviews mean that it doesn't sell for much on fleabay, even when well aged. Very impressive smoke. And I no longer mind the tin note.

I think reviews of Sutliffe blends suffer in part because of the Altadis connection. But in 2013, Altadis sold its pipe tobacco operations to Mac Baren, which included Sutliff, A&C Peterson, Benjamin Hartwell and more. I have no doubt that these blends will only improve now under MB.
Pipe Used: Cob, Stanwell
PurchasedFrom: eBay
Age When Smoked: 2 yrs
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 03, 2014 Mild Mild to Medium Mild Pleasant
Tin note is almost over the top pumpkin pie spice with a distinct creaminess. Very moist, but not gooey. Lights easily and stays lit fairly well. Taste is nowhere near as strong pumpkin as the aroma. Nice toasty, slightly spicy and sweet. Mild strength makes this an all day smoker. No tongue bite even when I puff hard. At first I thought I made a mistake buying this, but I am glad I did.

If you like aromatics that are easy to smoke, you will like this one.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 19, 2021 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Tolerable
My thought when I found this tin in my first post-Covid19 buy was, great, a cinnamon-flavored pipe tobacco; just what everybody needs. I set the tin aside as an unknown for the future and played with other things. The second time I looked at the tin I noticed it had a small hole in the bottom of unknown duration. Based on that, I opened it shortly afterwards. What a joke that worry was. This tin of tobacco was so wet that the little hole in question could never have dried it out in a solid year's time! Then there was the tin aroma. Taste of Autumn with five or more years fermenting under it's belt has the aroma of a leather polish I have used in the past; not unpleasant, but light industrial in nature. A big wad was placed on a piece of paper to air out for the evening and this changed the aroma to something alcohol-based and slightly citrus flavored. Otherwise, it was still way too wet to think about smoking. The next day the aroma had settled down to a slightly alcoholic orange and tobacco flavor. Smoked at this stage, it still had a slight citrus aroma that faded rather quickly. Two more days of airing out yielded, finally, the base tobacco with only a muddled hint that something had been on it. Now what we have is a Va/Bur varietal of varying strength and modest taste that reminds me of another Private Stock Burley-based blend, BRG Mixture. I feel pretty much the same about both of them; two stars.
Pipe Used: Charatan Special 44
PurchasedFrom: a fellow pipe smoker
Age When Smoked: unknown, but between 5 and 10 years old
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 13, 2017 Mild to Medium Medium to Strong Medium Tolerable
I can't help but think of this as a gimmicky type of blend and perhaps it is because I chose to start smoking this at the same time many of the pumpkin spice beers, shakes, lattes, ets. were all coming out for the season. Being someone who is not a fan of this flavor on any of those other things, I also was not too crazy about this blend.

As an aromatic though, it is pretty well done. Sutliff can make an aro and if you like pumpkin spice, then you will likely enjoy this blend. I had a two ounce bag of this and it may seem strange that I was able to finish the whole bag when I disliked it. I will say that with each bowl, it was pretty terrible at the start, but as the topping lifted a bit, particularly passing the mid bowl part, I started to enjoy the flavor. This is when the burley was complimented by the topping and I could actually taste it. There is one odd thing about this blend and it has to do with the tin note. Although I know this to be a pumpkin spice topping and it tastes like pumpkin spice. The tin note to me smells just like eggnog. Strange, could just be my sense of smell.

So, I would sum this up as saying that this is a good aromatic, but the topping is not to my liking. For me the true taste of Autumn is Latakia with burley, and for an aromatic, I will stick with Autumn Evening by C&D.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 04, 2015 Mild to Medium Medium to Strong Full Very Pleasant
Pumpkin and a creamy Nutmeg seem to dominate this aromatic. Excellent room note and flavorful dense smoke. Well rubbed out and easy to pack and light. Burns well once lit but took a couple of tries. As the tin progresses, it dries a bit and lights more easily. This is a pleasant smoke and fits the cool autumn season very well. A recommended change of pace.
Pipe Used: Several
PurchasedFrom: Local Shop
Age When Smoked: 2 years in the tin
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 04, 2014 Mild Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Pleasant
Im a big fall/halloween nerd, so I had to try a tobacco with autumn in the title. I think I expected too much from this blend and I really did not care much for it at all. The flavor I got from it was more of an orange/cream Popsicle thing, with a hint of nutmeg and a heap of hot air. I have given it a shot through a few different pipes and it really didnt get much better. For me this one just didnt work out.

****Updated 10/27/14**** I revisited this blend over the weekend with a quality craft pumpkin ale and I will say that I quite enjoyed it. Im not sure if its because fall is in the air or what, but i really did enjoy it this time around.

What I did differently this time- Dried the tobacco out over night. Smoked in a cob. Sat on the front porch and watched the falling autumn leaves. Cracked open a bottle of Shipyard Pumpkinhead ale.

Still rate it as somewhat reccomended.

Pipe Used: various
PurchasedFrom: Pipes and cigars
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 09, 2015 Mild Mild to Medium Mild Pleasant
The wetness that others experiences wasn't that big of an issue for me. It needed drying time but wasn't goopy by any means. The tin note smells wonderful. Pumpkin pie and orange jello to my beak.

The room note was enjoyed by everyone I've ever smoked this in front of. The smoke was just too mild for me. I didn't get too much flavor even after smoking past the 3/4 points. It's nice to see an aro that goes beyond the traditional Vanilla, Rum, Cherry cavendish but for the first time I would want more topping.

This tobacco is just not for me.
Pipe Used: Cobs and briars
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 02, 2014 Mild Very Mild Extremely Mild (Flat) Pleasant
Tin Aroma: Pleasant and strong aroma, took me a few tries to peg it down but it strongly reminds me of a good cup of eggnog with lots of fresh nutmeg and a healthy dose of spiced rum

Taste: Some of the times I could get a hint of vanilla but I've now smoked the whole tin and pretty much every bowl I couldn't detect much flavor at all.

Smokability: After smoking the tin I only got some light tong bite on a couple of the bowls but for the most part it smoked cool. Several bowls had some wet clumps at the bottom and for the most part I was able to smoke the whole bowl. The tin I had wasn't overly wet but I did let a few pinches dry out for a few hours on the more humid days, sometimes this worked and let me smoke the whole bowl and sometimes not. The times I let it dry out the smell seemed to evaporate more quickly that other aros to the point that there wasn't any smell left in the tobacco or the smoke.

Room Note: The first half of the bowl the smell in the tin is very present in the air, after that though only a very mild hint of vanilla is left.

Thoughts: Personally I'm not much of an aromatic smoker but this was given to me so I gave it a shot. It smoked cooler than most aromatics I've smoked and has a pleasant aroma but I'll probably pass on it in the future for one of the other Sutliff aromatics.

Pipe Used: Missouri Meershaum and Briar

Age When Smoked: New
Pipe Used: Missouri Meershaum and Briar
PurchasedFrom: Sample
Age When Smoked: New
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Nov 04, 2014 Medium Strong Overwhelming Tolerable
Got a tin of this as a freebie promo at a pipe show. When I opened the tin the aroma was interesting, but it was so wet it wouldn't even light. After drying it for about a week I tried it in 3 different pipes before throwing it out. The flavoring was so strong that I could detect no tobacco taste whatsoever, and it left a puddle of goo in the bottom of the pipe. It brought to mind a smoldering bird's nest, feathers and all. This is easily one of the 2 or 3 nastiest "tobacco" offerings I've ever tried to smoke.
Pipe Used: Briars
PurchasedFrom: giveaway
Age When Smoked: new?
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