Planta - Cellini Forte pipe tobacco reviews

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albfneto	07/26/2012	Medium	Strong	Full	Tolerable
Commenting previous reviews: i have in mind that in many good fully aromatized tobaccos, full aromatics, the flavours are more strong than the tobacco taste, in the pouch, in the tobacco itself. This is a good and normal caractheristic of good aromatics, desired by smokers that really like aromatic and sweet tobaccos. It is not Bite, neither causes Tongue problems, as some other aromatics. Excelent. Recommended.
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maigret fan	09/09/2011	Medium to Strong	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Strong
I do not fully agree with the previous reviews. It is true that the smell in the pouch is strong, the addition of liquor going over the smell of the tobacco. Nevertheless smoking it is nice, with the aromatic character quite strong. That put off those whose aromatic tobaccos is not their cup of tea! No biting in the mouth as mentioned in previous reviews. I see that these are not recent: if someone else would volunteer to taste it that would be interesting. May be Planta has improved the blend. We do not get much tobaccos inspired by South of Europe taste, leaving aside the 'latakia' blends, so this tobacco with an Italian formula is worth a try.
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Norber	09/25/2009	Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Tolerable to Strong
At first it seems to have a very rich taste, but after a few good puffs, you realize that your tongue begins to burn BITING much! The barolo grapes taste is very good, but bites and stings in the mouth! Not recommended
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viscfab	07/25/2009	Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
This was a big disappointmnet to me. I love wines and Barolo is certainly a great wine from Italy. This tobacco in the pouch has a sickening smell and in the pipe burns hot and delivers no good flavours at all. Not recommended.
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Xeneize	06/27/2009	Very Mild	Very Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
I see Cellini Forte as tobamel that somehow made it into my pipe. Very little tobacco taste, and a lot of flavoring. The latter comes as a strange mix of wine and mango, and it's very difficult to tell which base leaves hide behind those chemicals. Tongue bite is another big issue. I didn't think it was gonna be so bad when I first opened the pouch and found very dry tobacco inside, but the lack of propylene glycol will only fool you into thinking this is a "natural" aromatic. If you're intrigued about hookahs, try this tobacco first. If you like it but can't stand the tongue bite, you'll be far better off smoking El-Mazag Mango with some red wine in the hookah's water jar. If you don't, you should probably use the money for a nice briar pipe and some real tobacco.
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TioPaulus	06/10/2009	Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
Although "forte" is the Italian word for "strong", this tobacco is not really very strong. It is very dark and i bit too dry for my taste, but still surprisingly refreshing, i'm not a bog fan of the aromatics, but this one tastes like wine, and is pretty good for a change.
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Tabakabouter	11/11/2008	Medium	Strong	Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is strongly flavoured with wine. So strong, that it's not a real pleasant smoke. Beware for tonguebite also. Still, this is a very interesting T. for it's taste. Mix this half and half with a neutral and mellow VA , then add a sniff (a very small amount, like a little knifepoint) Clovepowder. Adding too much Clove will ruin the mix. Smoke this only having a glas of red wine. Recommended.
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DrY11	07/09/2007	Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I bought two pouches of Cellini. One strong and one mild. The strong (FORTE, in black pouch) was extremely dry. I did like the overall experience however. To be honest, I did dislike the first bowl. But from the rest of them I am quite satisfied. The secons (a mild version, white pouch) was sticky wet. It reminded me of some Captain Black variety with just coarser cut. I totaly disliked the expeerience of this. So, all said, I recommend the strong variant (FORTE) but not the other one.
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Beer	09/01/2004	Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I live in Piemonte, the region of northwestern Italy where some great wines are made: one of the most renowned of them is certainly Barolo, made from the grapes which bear the same name. How could I resist to the idea of trying a pipe tobacco flavored with Barolo grapes/wine, in spite of being an aromatic (while I like english mixtures), of being sold in a pouch, of being rather cheap? The first pouch I bought was rather dry: I went back to the tobacconist, and he exchanged it with another which had a decent moisture level. Well, this isn't supposed to be a sticky and wet aromatic, but at least you should check it's not in a crumbling state if you want to buy it. The base tobacco is a mixture of virginia, burley, black cavendish and indonesian leaves: but as in most cases with aromatics, what matters is not the tobacco in itself, but the flavoring. And the flavoring is strong indeed: the smell in the pouch is rather unpleasant, very sour, reminding more of vinegar and of grapes than of wine. I can't find any traces of the deep, dark, scent of the Barolo wine! This made me fear for the worst... Anyway, upon lighting, I found partial relief: the tobacco burns nice, not too wet, and certainly not goopy (which DOESN'T mean that the flavor will easily go away from your pipe!). The taste, like the smell, does not remind of Barolo at all: it is very sweet, and if one should really find a comparison with foods, it reminds of fruits and grapes (though I can't tell if it's really Barolo grapes). As the bowl reaches bottom, the fruity taste never disappears. It only gets complemented by a more tobacco-ey taste, which is rather strong and full bodied. The burley clearly makes its presence felt, and the underlying taste is a bit harsh and rude (definitely not a smooth Burley like the one in GLP Barbary Coast...). A couple of relightings may be needed. My final judgment is that, while not exactly my favorite genre of tobacco (I doubt I will buy it again), it is a nice aromatic, better than the average artificial blends that plague drugstores all over the world. Worth trying if you want a nice, different from usual, aromatic which mantains its aroma troughout the whole bowl (which is indeed a bit too artificially sweet for my taste).
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