Type: Natural aromatic burley mixture ; Contents: Burley, Kentucky, Oriental & Virginia ; Flavoring: Hazelnut (very mild taste) ; Cut: Ribbon / Flake ready rubbed ; Humidity: Pretty moist and slow burning; Lighting: I say normal and constant burning but need some practice in the first time ; Pipe recommended: All kind are fine, but obviously for a full burley mixture experience a large bowl is mandatory, better with a chubby type. For some strange reason the meerschaum experience is not good as I expected for burley mix.

when I first read the reviews on this amphora aromatic, after buying a rainy- sunday last pouch left at the tobacconist I feared it maybe the worst Amphora Blends out for sale in Italy...Once I had some Amphora Original as a gift from a friend but never tried this one...I have to say it's a very mild tobacco, intended maybe to be mild on all of the characteristics it may display..Mild strenght indeed, very mild flavoring, some nutty-chocolatey scents and nothing more( but very light chocolatey flavor). Kentucky here seems to disappear in a nearly straight classic burley blend, nothing special...some Skandinavik mildly aromatic blend along with Park lane Nr 7 & basic Burley Blends seems to be more interesting than this Amphora title, without naming any celebrated classic...no heavy topping, no heavy nicotine punch but, and that's good news, no sensible bite at all, even if you puff hard. The pouch came home with just the right humidity and reveals no particular flavor when opened. The cut makes it easy to "plug and smoke", and it seems to be a loose cut with some ready rubbed stuff. There's anyway more and more better blends to be savoured out there...

Review, revisited, after some bowls:

I'm afraid to say that, unusually I even have to be more nasty on this product...the flavor doesn't really come out, not even in medium bowls (I'll try some large bowls)

The pouch is exactly the same as the red one, but dark green.

I did not enjoy this offering. There was a harshness to it and the casing was noy exactly an enjoyable smell...

A nice try but falls short of the red pouch Full Aroma. I can't put my finger on how to describe the aroma in the pouch but it does smell refreshing.

Predominantly partially rubbed-out burley with specs of what appears to be oriental, it is sufficiently moist in the pouch but barely so. Once removed from the pouch to a jar suffice it to say that a humi-disc would be in order.

Since this is long and coarse packing a bowl can be tricky. I first tried this as-is in a small bowl meer-lined Butz Choquin....big mistake! Though it lights easily and stays lit, burns a bit hot but to the bottom, the smoke quickly hits the tongue with a biting, acidic punch. This is better rubbed-out some more and packed in a larger bowl...preferably a pipe with filter which reduces that nasty bite somewhat.

I could not taste any hazelnut........until I took a sip of coffee, and aaaahhh....the hazelnut comes to the surface of the palate.

Rich Aroma fails to describe the room note which seems to me to be simply an aroma of tobacco smoke.....not annoying but certainly not what I would call a rich aroma.

After shredding a bowl-full of this by hand and loading my Brigham Algonquin Volcano, it was a better smoke, but certainly not an all-day one.

I have found that mixing this with Original blend 50/50 makes for an enjoyable relaxing, unhurried smoke.

I can only give this 2 stars. Beginners should avoid this. Go for the red pouch Full Aroma or the Original Blend. Skip this unless you plan to mix it with something to tame that burley. Personally, I'll keep the rest and do some experimentation with custom blending this stuff until I come up with something I could give more praise.......on its own, its not worth the $$$.

It was not a nice experience... Amphora Green was so mild, bitey, and the distinctive hazelnut flavour just so faint that I could hardly notice. In short: hot air.

I don't know why I have been tempted to try it again, maybe simply the green pouch called me (and the brown, too...). But I have to say it's not as bad as I remembered.

It is a light brown Burley-based typical dutch cavendish; mild in strength, the aroma is monochromaticly nutty/sweet and just a bit salty, never cloying; gives it best in medium-large bores, the slowest draw will avoid it turns bitter or acidic or... dull.

Amphora Green is nothing to write home, but honest and well behaved. Something worth to smoke once in a while just as a temporary passage into the mild-aromatics.