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Dark Horse
| Brand: |
John Patton |
| Blender: |
John Patton |
| Tin Description: |
Virginia, 2 Burleys, Turkish, Oriental, Cigar Leaf and Perique produce a medium strength blend with a smooth, full range of flavors. |
| Country of Origin: |
USA |
| Curing Group: |
Air Cured |
| Contents: |
Burley
Virginia
Perique
Oriental
Turkish
Cigar Leaf
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| Cut: |
Coarse Cut |
| Packaging: |
Bulk |
| Blend Notes: |
The 'Dark Horse' blend is an adjustment of 'Soulmate's Kiss' in which Cigar Leaf replaces the Latakia. It is the newest John Patton blend. |
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| Strength: |
Medium
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| Flavoring: |
Extremely Mild
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| Taste: |
Medium to Full
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| Room Note: |
Pleasant to Tolerable
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| Recommendation: |
Highly Recommended
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Showing reviews 1 through 3 of 3 reviews of this tobacco
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Blue Bayou
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05/14/2013 |
Medium
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Very Mild
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Medium
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Pleasant to Tolerable
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| Disappointing compared to Patton's Storm Front.
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JimInks
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03/18/2013 |
Medium
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None detected
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Medium to Full
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Pleasant to Tolerable
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| A tremendously flavorful smoke. I recommend smoking it in a big bowl pipe so you can savor the multiplicity of flavors from a variety of components. The cigar leaf, orientals, turkish, and perique add nice bass notes, nicely balancing out the toasted burley and Virginia. The taste varies just slightly as you smoke it down as some ingredients make themselves a little more known. But generally, this is a near perfectly blended mixture, so it doesn't change that much. It's bite free, burns evenly, and doesn't need much relighting. It may not sound like an all day smoke considering what's in it, but it's not overly strong, though it's full in taste. A real treat to smoke and very deserving of four stars.
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Blackhorse
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11/01/2012 |
Medium
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Extremely Mild
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Medium to Full
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Tolerable
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| I think this is one of the best blends I've smoked in over thirty years. It has no Latakia so the sharp slightly smoky notes in 'Soulmate's Kiss' are absent, and the slightly sour notes of the Perique and Turkish are more noticeable...odd, as I think this tastes a little sweeter than the 'Soulmate' blend. Similar in some ways to Oriental Dusk and Crossroads, this comes across to me a bit spicier and with a richer flavor...a very complex and alluring concoction - flavors dancing about like a dervish - sometimes they run up hooting and whistling and whack at you with a club...other times it's as a soft caress or a longing sigh. It's easy to work with, burns well, isn't fussy about briar...but seems to love a medium bowl of slightly deep dimensions. And it absolutely has a special relationship with the MM Freehand Cob and like most Patton blends does it's finest work there.
I've been smoking a pipe for a long time, and have at this point settled on these 'American/Oriental/Balkan' - flights of Patton Fantasy - as the best tasting and most interesting blends out there. If you haven't tried them yet...do yourself a favor...Crossroads, Oriental Dusk and Dark Horse. Three solid winners!
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