A & C Peterson - Caledonian Highland Cream No.10 pipe tobacco reviews

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rewozz	01/20/2011	Mild	Medium	Medium	Pleasant

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Steden	12/15/2010	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant
Considered on the specific department of aromatics, Caledonian Highland Cream is a prime quality blend. It is marvellously flavoured with vanilla-toffee-whisky notes on a confectionary way (in the good sense of the term), despite this casing is liberally applied it seems possess a sort of “transparent” virtue so you can detect the taste of the underlying good tobaccos, the whole effect is a sensation of great pleasure with a smoke able to caress your uvula and fill your nose with a superior aroma. Christmas is near, make a gift to your relatives and friends smoking this mastery product close them.
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ELF	11/13/2010	Extremely Mild	Extremely Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
Excellent Tobacco,of the Highest Quality Ingredients...If U like C+Diel,Pease,McClnds...U won't B disapointed! Nowadays most Tobacco Mfg's Rely on"Casing+Flovoring"2make a Mixture Palatable...Because they don't have Good-Core-Ingredients...This is not the Case,with A+C Peterson or the 3other mentioned in my Review. Have smoked a pipe for Almost 30Yrs+tried Literally 100-150Tin Mixtures alone. If U can find ANY..A+C Peterson Tin Mix's..BUY ALL that U can afford!.. I opened an A+C Scottish-Mixture from the 1960's(It was amazing!!) With All Changes Happening Within The European-Union;the List of Tobacco+Tob.Related Products are getting More Restrictive(INTO-North America)...If You find Tob-Treasures..BUY THEM While U Still CAN!
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Claudius Stradivarius	07/25/2010	Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant
I have liked this offering less than the other Caledonian varieties. The casing was too much for my liking and it bit.
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FALCON	12/04/2009	Medium	Medium	Medium to Full	Pleasant
my first tin tobacco i smoked.its creamy rich and very god
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The German	06/08/2009	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
Returning to a past favourite of mine, I picked up a tin of No. 10 a couple of days ago and gave it another whirl. It was exactly as I had remembered it. Beautiful tin aroma, not in any particular way hinting at Whisky, but with a nice, bright, fragrant note underlined by the Black Cavendish. Sweetness is going to happen here, the aroma says. And it does; the taste is of tobacco with a little extra -- much unlike many other Whisky-flavoured blends which tend to go over the top -- it is mild, but not too much so, sweet with the BC and VA, with VA freshness and spice and just a hint of Latakia taste in there. The room note is beautiful; again the Whisky holds itself in the background and lets the tobacco do the legwork, only adding a beautiful, mature note to something already quite good; the Latakia only adds a little spice and is not really noticeable as such. The leaf is approximately 50/50 Black Cavendish and both bright and red VA tobaccos with maybe up to 2 % Latakia; it's a mixed-length ribbon cut that is easy to pack (and can also easily be packed too tightly) and burns down nicely, gently and easily. This is a blend I can very highly recommend to the beginner looking for aromatic blends; me, I still enjoy smoking it very much, but these days I am used to more strength and flavour, and that's why I don't give a full rating.
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Tantric	05/07/2009	Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Highland Cream is a smooth, mild, aromatic blend, very much in the Danish tradition. There's quality leaf here, and the aroma is creamy, deep, sweet in a milky-chocolate sort of way, more similar to Bailey's (the liquor) than to other blends cased with Scotch (i.e.: A&C Peterson's own Highland MALT, with which Highland CREAM should not be confused, Radford's Old Scotch or Davidoff`'s Scottish Mixture). I believe it is a mild smoke, but the density of the casing gives the impression of a fuller strength (that is, a medium smoke). It is not cloying or sticky. Room aroma is pretty nice, homey. There's really not much in the way of excitement, nor does it induce a deep, contemplative smoke. I find more the kind of smoke others enjoy, a "conversational" tobacco if you will. As to the above description, I think they got it confused with another blend from the same company: Premier Crú. Similar to Caledonian Green, but less sweet and slightly more potent, Premier Crú does present the classic English tobacco composition of Virginia, very tamed Latakia and Orientals, and a dash of Périque. So, don't be misled. Highland Cream is NOT an English style tobacco, and it's NO alternative to Dunhill's EMP. But if you are looking for a creamy, slow burning aromatic, this might just be the ticket.
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Meo	05/04/2009	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant
A great tobacco, it is always a great thing to open a new tin of this blend. It is aromatic, but not overwhelming like other aromatics. It is easy to fill into the pipe and it smokes pretty well. The flavour is nice and you can smell particularly the cavendish. The topping highland cream whisky is very pleasant but not too strong: you can still smell the real tobacco flavour. I think the tin description of the website is incorrect. I just see (and smell) bright virginia, black cavendish and highland cream aroma. No orientals or latakia at all!
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CornCob	02/01/2009	Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
This is a lovely blend.Its like opening a bottle of 12 year old scotch, very much enjoyed when smoked slowly. It packed quite well, although i found it a little dry out of the tin, but that didnt seem to make any difference. It got a little hot towards the bottom, but that may have been my fault for smoking it a little fast. I will buy it again when i can find it.
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Pipestud	01/27/2008	Very Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
Aromatic lovers will probably greatly enjoy this. I just had to try it because I heard it has a tobacco taste despite all the sweetness (Vanilla extract in a can!) If I were desperate, I'd finish the tin. But, because my local tobacco club has a tobacco bar and members are invited to share their bounty, this one will be my offering for the month. I had the tin for several years but now that I've sampled the contents, I'm willing to let it go. Quality leaf all the way and not hard to keep lit at all. I'm glad I smoked it in my Kaywoodie reserved for aromatics because the odor and taste will probably stay with the pipe longer than I'll stay on planet earth. Now then, where's a spoon? After a whiff of this stuff in the tin, I'm thinking anything that smells that good surely must be edible.
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ex20adayman	01/21/2008	Mild	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
This is the kind of aromatic tobacco all new pipe smokers should try. I bought it as I always like to have a "sweet tooth" tobacco on hand for when the mood takes me. Presentation is superb. Nicely printed textured labelling, ruffled paper inside and a card cover with individual quality code. Very similar to a Dunhill product. Tin aroma is delicious - boozy toffee with tobacco. The tin states "easy to fill and easy to smoke". It's not wrong on either count. A tasty aromatic smoke with no bite but with a definite subtle tobacco flavour. In this respect similar to another Orlik aromatic - Alsbo Black. The whisky flavouring is detectable but not overwhelming. Room note is very pleasant for others. Recommended in it's category. IMO, this tobacco is in a similar vein to other aromatics such as Alsbo Black, Mac Baren Black Ambrosia and Original Choice and WO Larsen Simply Unique. Surprisingly, this tobacco isn't available from any online tobacconists I know of in the UK, I got it from Germany - where it is a bestselling brand
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SMOKETSES	11/16/2007	Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Tolerable to Strong
A soft mix. A mix of light tobaccos Virginia with Black Cavendish. The bouquet and the light perfume of this whisky, guarantee its unique flavor of this mix. It can easily be smoked by itself. In the beginning you do not understand the difference, however after 1-2 smoking, you feel a pleasure. I smoke it also in combination with Larsen No 50 or Barbary Coast. Best Regards
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OleFattGuy	05/24/2006	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
This aromatic has a following in Sweden (and probably elsewhere) that makes it sometimes unobtainable in the shops! Clubs smoking only this weed have been formed which says something about the tobacco, but also about the monomanic minds of some people ;) I can sit and sniff in the tin for hours. It just smells so wonderful. When stuffed in the pipe it is a sure crowd pleaser and strangers walk up to greet you with altruistic attitudes towards pipe smokers in general and especially you! It is a wonderful smoke, however after half a tin I tend to get a "sweetness overdose" and start to long for a "rougher" baccy altogether, maybe a Premier Cru or a Red Rapparee or something. It is like eating a pound of milk toffee, you start to look for licorice in the candy jar. Or a whisky. But that doesnt stop me from a hearty recommendation of this, smoked to measure.
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slartie	09/11/2005	Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium to Full	Pleasant
The first couple of bowls of this blend seemed a little tame to me. The flavor didn't pound my palate, but later that turned out to be a good thing. It does benefit from a bit of drying first, though. Having been through about an ounce of a tin of this blend, it has grown on me. The taste is by no means overwhelming. It is nice and smooth. You can puff pretty hard on this blend without getting a burn. Some care has to be put into the packing ritual, especially if you pack it fresh out of the tin. A slight packing error and your pipe will be punished with flaming hot walls. All in all I have found this blend to be a nice and soothing experience that I and my surroundings enjoy a lot. This blend will find its way to my "stash" again.
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Brumm-Brumm	12/27/2003	Mild	Medium	Very Full	Pleasant
As I am, new to the pipe world, I have to contribute with my share of my so ongoing experience. I found this, as it was given to me at my 18'th birthday by a couple of close friends, simingly tastful and rather sweer just as I opened the tin. I were not to be betraied. The smoke tasted like a combination between sweet sugar and bitter juice, and it was not as harsh to my throat as other aromatics had been. I'd say it has been treating me nicely, and greeting me in to the world of pipes in a splendid fashion. But I do think I will go on, to more advanced and sofisticated tobaccos.
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fortezero	04/03/2001	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Strong
Here's a tobacco that I'd thought about purchasing many times, but was always discouraged by what I thought would end up being an overpowering aromatic flavor..Not so at all. Upon opening the can and removing the a.c.petersen paper disc thing, I promptly stuck my finger into the stuff to get a feel of it. It is soft and delicate, but not delicate to a point of fragility. The tin aroma is really entrancing; you can smell the sugary goodness of the aged virginias, along with, but not overwhelmed by, the topper of the cream whiskey. The tobacco packs well, although it gets a few "tricky" points for being a longer-cut tobacco so the ribbons of leaf are a little tougher to get into the bowl, but no REAL big deal. Being an aromatic blend, the moisture content is pretty high in this one, but not too horrible. However, its quite difficult to get a good char going, and it'll take a couple of minutes after taht to get the good smoldering effect. However, as soon as the tobacco is properly lit, the flavor really comes into its own. This, being a virginia based tobacco, gives me a horrible sense of bite no matter how slowly I smoke, however, the flavor is so deep and rich that I could not resist finishing up the bowl. Like many rich-topped tobacs, the flavor is pretty much one-dimensional and straightforward through the entire bowl, but this is by no means a bad thing! In closing, if you are a fan of aromatics, or are looking for one that has fine tobaccos along with a delicious topper, look no further!
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