Altadis - J3 Almondine pipe tobacco reviews

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marksman8351	10/11/2010	Mild	Mild	Mild	Tolerable
Its worth a try, its advertised as an aromatic how ever it had more of a smokey taste nothing like stated on the package. The brand is fair priced and i like other blends of theirs, i guess this one just wasnt for me.
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Nurse_Maduro	09/08/2010	Mild	Very Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
You've gotta love Altadis: their only consistancy is their very inconsistancy. This one smells pretty decent in the pouch, very rich and the almond liquor really comes through. Smoking, however, is a different matter. Like the Wild Cherry they put out, the tobacco tastes faintly like...well, something. It's not quite almonds, but I wouldn't call it unpleasant. My girlfriend commented that the room note was "not bad," which is HUGE for her, because the pipe reminds her of her ex-husband. This is, in fact, the first time she hasn't turned her nose up at it. I'm on the fence about Almondine. It's not bad, but it's just not much of anything. Needs to be smoked low and slow, or it will bite (which is typical of these blends anyway).
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James	02/08/2010	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
Expected more flavor but wasn't a bad smoke. Smelled great. Taste alright. I would smoke it again.
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Mountain Man	07/13/2009	Mild	Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant
This is one of the first non-drugstore tobaccos I ever tried.I loved the taste and smell of this tobacco,but it doesnt keep its flavor.It taste horrible at the half bowl point.For that reason,I cant recommend this tobacco.
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strongirish	06/03/2009	Mild	Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
This is another sample that came to me. I love almonds but I did not get that flavor or aroma from this blend at all. To be honest, I liked the flavor I did get from it and enjoyed the aroma very much. Just does not live up to it's name so I can't rate it higher. It is a mottled, multicolor blend and with a very long shag cut. It is way too moist out of the pouch and somewhat sticky. It took a couple of lights and relights to smoke. Personally, though I liked the liquer flavor I found this to smoke really hot. Not for beginners at all. Not one of Altadis's better blends and will use it mixed with something else, maybe a chocolate and have a Mounds experience.
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jshrader13	05/18/2009	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Tolerable
To be fair, I am a novice and this was one of the first aromatics I tried. I did not like the taste or room note of this blend at all. I wish I'd read the reviews before purchasing this. It seems overly smokey to me, with no discernable almond flavor in taste or smell. This one wasn't for me.
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Wild Man	02/24/2009	Medium	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
I picked this up as one of my first pipe tobacco purchases only a few months ago. The aroma of the opened pouch was wonderful. Filling the bowl was easy enough but lighting it was less than desirable as I wasn't patient enough to let the pouch dry out a little before trying. After lighting, the first third of the bowl was pleasant enough with a hint of almond and perhaps vanilla. After that what flavoring was there had left the bowl and the tobacco had strengthened. By the end of the smoke I was left with a flavorless tobacco that became quite dull. However, the room note that was left was quite pleasant. Enough so that my wife(who doesn't mind at all if I smoke indoors!) complimented it greatly. The room note also increases greatly if smoked inside a car leaving a more than welcomed toasted marshmallow aroma. It did improve a little when it had been dried out to my liking, but I can only recommend this aromatic if one is looking for a good room note only. I give this two stars on account of its wonderful room note.
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qmechanics	07/21/2008	Extremely Mild	Extremely Mild	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant
Years ago I had been accustomed to smoking aromatics. I tried this blend and other Altadis tobaccos after taking up pipe smoking again. Many of those I tried suffered from the same affliction as this one. The casing had been horrible. After an initial pleasing flavor, the tobacco went bland. There is not much more to say except: Altadis could do themselves a favor by taking this off the shelf and reworking it. This is not a good blend. There had been a bright side to all of this. As a result of my bad experience I did a bit of research and looked more seriously at English and Virginias. I have never looked back. Occassionally I will smoke an aromatic. More often than not it will be an aromatic that shows strong leanings towards and English or Virginian profile. Q
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Big bad Jon	05/21/2007	Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
Well if you like to smoke chewing gum this is your blend... wet and sticky. It tastes ok but like other reviewers say the casing wears off and it taste ashy after that. Not my cup of tea.
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Bezoar	02/14/2007	Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild	Pleasant
Pouch smell is great, but when you put it into a glass jar it just gets nice and heady/boozy smelling. But a few puffs after you get it burnign in your pipe the sweetness you recieved descends into a mellow blandness. Did have an amaretto, not almond, taste and smell when smoking it, and the bowl did reek of amaretto when cooled down. Just not worth the time to me anymore.
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Pipepundit	02/07/2007	Extremely Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
pipe smoking has brought such pleasure into my life that I am reluctant to be severly critical of any product - after all, if it sells it must be giving some pleasure to someone. Almondine came to me as part of a gift package of aromatics at Christmas. With all the affection for the gifter it has to be pointed out that the taste and smell of this concoction are synthetic. It is not really possible to recommend it to anyone: there are so many delightful aromatics around.
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LearnedHandsome	01/06/2007	Very Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant
A friend told me about an online promotion where Altadis sent out samples of its products so I gave them my personal information to exploit. Two weeks later a box of about 15 blends, one to two ounces each arrived. All but one or two of the tobaccos were aromatic but almondine had the best aroma. Maybe the best pouch aroma I have ever experienced. I wanted to eat it. The tobacco was moist and burned poorly. Once dried it burned okay but was still a five plus match affair. The flavor was a blast of sugar and the almond did not really come through. The sweetness burned away after ten minutes. The make up was removed from the flavorless, cheap tobaccos. At this point the tobacco is not even worth smoking. I finished a few bowls on principle but it was a bad experience. If altadis is still running the free tobacco promotion maybe this is worth trying as chaw while fishing, but it is not worth gunking up a pipe for ten minutes of sweetness.
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jackhackett	04/02/2006	Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant
Like Frangelico you can smoke, sort of...an after-dinner cordial/liqueur type thing that will make those around you (those who aren't anti-smoking sheep) swoon with delight. They'll tell you how wonderful it smells and you'll smile and then tap the stuff out as soon as the casing burns off which, like chewing all of the sugar out of a stick of cheap bubble gum, occurs all too quickly. No cathedral to the noble leaf here. Yes it gurggles, yes it'll burn you if you let it, and yes it is very sweet, but the casing is decently executed (though somewhat synthetic at times) and you certainly get what you pay for at this price.
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mel51us	03/11/2006	Very Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
Almondine was a huge disappointment. The aroma in the pouch did not prepare me for the burning tobacco. It was mild, but had a strange aftertaste. I tried Almondine twice, both times a quarter bowl was all I could handle.
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Pipestud	02/25/2006	Very Mild	Medium	Very Mild	Pleasant
I'm with Sop - this one is not for pipe consumption. The casing was certainly present in waves at the initial lighting (almond extract?) but burned off quickly and left one with a pipe loaded with sour mash burley. The above descriptive is accurate, it is mild, mellow and cool burning.
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