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JimInks	11/27/2012	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
The perique adds a nice plum taste and a little pepper to the sweetness of the red Virginias without overwhelming the blend. The description says a good amount of the perique is here, but I think it more as a moderate addition. The nicotine hit is average, more so than OTC blends and less than Escudo. It often is a little moist in a freshly opened tin, though the one I just opened is moderately dry. It burns well and smoothly when dried a little and is consistent in taste. It's not a complex blend and doesn't claim to be, which is fine with me. Sometimes, I just want a nice, flavorful all day VaPer, and this fulfills that desire. It goes well with any drink, from water to adult beverage, and leaves a very pleasant aftertaste. Some people think it smells nice and some think it's strong. It doesn't seem to ghost my pipes. There may be stronger red Virginias, but this is well balanced in purpose, and just plain enjoyable.
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Mr. Big	04/27/2012	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is a nice VaPer, smooth and flavorful . Reminds me of a step up from Orliks Golden Sliced (Red). I keep OGS on hand for those uncomplicated times when I want a simple smoke, I think this might be a better choice in bulk.
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flakey	01/24/2012	Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Pretty good stuff, I been smoking Louisiana Red for the better part of two years now, it is a regular in my rotation. There was a time when it was my everyday smoke, even now there's times when I absolutely crave this blend, especially when the weather is warm. Something seems to have changed about this blend though since I started smoking it, the last two or three tins I've gotten haven't had quite the same flavor,, maybe one or the other constituent tobaccos has changed slightly or maybe I'm just imagining ?? Not sure. At any rate, this is my favorite of Russ' blends that I've tried so far. I think it is a well-balanced blend and the flavor reminds me a bit of Cajun food. Spicy and slightly sweet, smooth, and good price point.
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Trumpetboy	10/04/2011	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I think any fan of Va/Pers needs to try some of this. It's very satisfying, relaxing, doesn't bite, and unlike some of these types of blends out there, has a substantial amount of flavor with refinement. It doesn't knock your socks off with anything unique, but for me, always leaves you wanting more when your bowl is finished! Think Astleys no.2 with a bit more depth and smoothness.
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babysinister	06/07/2011	Mild	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant
I like red virginia and other bright virginias, and I like a reasonably amount of perique. So I love this blend. It's not Escudo, but with its relatively milder nicotine content I find it more amenable than Escudo for protracted smoking. That is just me, of course, since with increasing age (mine not the baccy's) I've become increasingly sensitive to too much nicotine. It has that peppered leather tang that does the trick for me. The ribbon cut and texture allows me to fill it easily in the bowl and not have to fuss too much with it afterward. No really high but nonetheless good top notes and fine undertaste for a vaper. The closest a vaper can get to an all day smoke (well, almost!).
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BrSpiritus	03/16/2011	Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I had to play with this one awhile before giving my review and it's a good thing I did as this stuff has been growing on me. For being a bulk tobacco it has an amazing complexity of shifting flavors/aromas. In the pouch the smell is hay and composting grass with a bit of raisin/plum but take out a pinch and spread it on a piece of paper and the smell instantly changes to full bodied Red Va odor (read ketchup although I despise that term) with a full perique dried fruit basenote. Most of the H&H tobaccos I have tried are cut in such a way as to remind of me leaves after I roll over them with my lawn mower. Not here, with this tobacco we find a nice ribbon cut that loads easily. It takes a light reasonably well although it could stand a bit of drying. As you smoke the flavour is perfectly va with the perique staying in the background and playing condiment. The flavours meld together very well although the Red Va here lacks the depth of flavour that I find in C&D Interlude. Overall I'm giving it 5 stars because it is a truly stellar blend at an even more stellar price. Excellent job Russ O.
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Big Blue Jazzman	12/12/2010	Medium	Mild	Medium	Pleasant
This is one great tobacco blend. It is absolutely my favorite Va-Per. Burns even and cool and delivers a satisfying burst of flavor. This one is a winner and a keeper and a permanent part of my rotation.
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rramstad	03/15/2010	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Hearth & Home have some fantastic VAPers. This one is quite good. I think I prefer both AJ's VAPer and Anniversary Kake to this one, but that's still pretty high praise. It seems very similar to McClelland 2015 but perhaps with the addition or substitution of either stoved red VA or possibly matured red VA. It has a rich, mellow, full taste, while still being rather zesty. Good stuff!
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strongirish	11/20/2009	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
Looking for an all day VaPer? This could very well be it. This is one good tasting blend that is not overwhelming or complicated but tastes good and smokes mild enough and tastes good enough to easily become an all day blend. This is like McClellands 5100 with perique added. In the pouch, this is a reddish brown rough ribbon cut tobacco with some darker flakes mixed in, obviously the perique. It has a pouch aroma that just calls your name, musty, sweet and spicy. It is at a good moisture content and loads quite easily into the pipe. It lights on first light but I did find that I can never keep this one lit. In my smoking it, I have had to relight it often and this is in several different pipes and methods of packing it. But the nice, spicy, sweet, pungent smoke from it, is wonderful on the palette and worth the relights. It justs bursts with flavor, I savor every puff and with strong black tea, it is just a real pleasure. Itg burns down the pipe to a gray ash and has no issues with moisture leaving your pipe clean and ready to load up again. No tongue bite with this one, it is smooth as can be but the perique is a main player and will give it a spiciness that you never lose all the way down. I would imagine with age on this blend it would be wonderful. Simply put, this one I highly recommend as it won't disappoint you. My only complaint about it is the having to relight so often.
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Meisterlowin	07/07/2009	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium to Full	Tolerable
I received some of this when I bought a pipe from the company and finally got around to trying this va/per a few weeks later. This is my first experience with a virginia perique blend and I found it pleasant enough. The sweetness of the blend is occasionally unpleasant but tolerable...a good smoke if I'm in the mood for a sweeter blend. A bit of a bite at times but otherwise a very mild, smooth smoke.
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DK	05/30/2009	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant
Another very nice Vaper from Russ Oullette. Hopefully my analogy of 3 of Russ' vapers to 3 different types of women won't offend anyone, but here goes. Anniversary Kake is the vaper that you take out on the town to show off, is very elegant and refined and that you enjoy very much. AJ's Vaper is the one that doesn't dress up so well but that you prefer because she is so exciting and fun to be around. She takes chances that Anni Kake doesn't. Louisiana Red is the one that is dependable and would make the best wife. She's there when you need her, always looking out for you, but she's neither as exciting as AJ's nor as stunning as Anni Kake. This is a tasty but subtle take on the old Vaper recipe. I really like the cut of this. I had no trouble keeping it lit nor smoking it to the bottom of the bowl. As I said, it's dependable. Me? At least with pipe tobacco, I'm a playboy. I prefer the AJ's Vaper. It takes me places I just can't get to with the other two and leaves me always wanting more. I may fantasize over the Anni Kake and be contented with the LA Red, but my heart is always with AJ. Your mileage may vary.
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Ismokeadapipe	03/19/2009	Medium	Mild	Full	Tolerable
I did not enjoy this blend at all. I try to give every blend a clean slate when I try it...but...I didn't enjoy this at all. It was hard to pack and light. I found the only reason that I found it tolerable was that upon relights...it was great for about 5 seconds. This gave me some wicked tounge bite. This will be at the absolute bottom of my rotation. Sorry, it was terrible.
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LV9	02/19/2009	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Tolerable to Strong
Just sweet red virginia and very little perique. Taste better with aging my batch is about 2 years old, it really brings out the sweetness of the virginias. Highly recommended if you are a virginia devotee, or as a introduction to the genre.
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Big Nick	01/03/2009	Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is a very nice and approuchable Va/Per blend. Packs well and burns well right down to a nice dry white ash. Not your typical Va/Per blend. If you enjoy the sweeter side(and I do)then this blend is a definate must try. It probably will not change your world, but it is a little different. Its not Escudo but it is good ! A little age on it helps and dry is good but not crunchy.
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krumpelman	11/26/2008	Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Ordered a small sample of this looking for a good Va/Per blend after hearing great things about the Russ O. blends. The blend packed nice, and lit very well. It was just a bit rough. I can't put my finger on it, but just no what I expected. A good friend of mine, sent me some of his hybrid blend using this and Lane 1-Q. Mixed about 50/50, this turns into a great blend. It's one of my favorite blends now (mixed with the 1-Q). Louisiana Red by itself I would not continue to smoke, however blended with 1-Q, it's golden, a definate "go to" blend for me. Thanks Hoop!
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Indian	12/12/2007	Mild	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
*update** after a couple months in a bail top jar this has tamed down some and is much more enjoyable First let me say that I love VAper blends. Which is why I decided to try this blend. With that being said I will try to highlight some pro's and cons of my exerience. Pro's - After smoking a few OZ's the things that I liked were the burnablitly and quality tobacco used. The room note was pleasant and the value is also pretty good. Con's - I love Perique but I dont know if I got a bad batch or what but it wasn't like the Perique I have grown to love in other blends. This was a little blah....I could hardly notice the Peppery taste at all untill the end of the bowl. The stuff showed up pretty dry too. Summary - This was an ok smoke but not much depth. But I do love VAper's to start so it kinda grew on me and with the value factor, for me this was a two star blend.
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smokinj	11/21/2007	Medium to Strong	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
if your a fan of virginias and perique This is another home run!
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HoopleHead	06/24/2007	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant
Warning... variation through personal blending. My ratings are for MY modified version of this blend. OK I bought a pound of Louisiana Red a while back at the same time I ordered several blends from P&C. I am a perique fanatic and smoke many different blends that contain it, so I was sure I'd like this one. Well in truth, it was pretty ho hum. A course taste that really didn't grab me. So it sat around in it's little pyrex bowl (I use many 2 and 3-cup pyrex bowls with snap on caps for storage simply for the benefit of easy opening, stacking and a wide mouth that allows easy pipe loading) until guilt finally forced a pipeload. One day I said, what the heck, I'll cut it 50/50 with 1Q! What a find!!!! The pyrex container allows me to mix blends easily by shaking thoroughly and then I let it simply meld for a few days before trying it. The cut of the two blends is identical, so it is quite congruent. But the truth is in the smoking... both blends jumped together to form a find that I'll bet you'll love too! I don't say go out and buy a pound of 1Q and a pound of Louisiana Red to try it, but if you have some of each lying around being neglected (simply because the LA is a little rough around the edges and you've read that 1Q is for the newbie or the unmanly)...give this a try! I find myself reaching for the "Louisiana Queue" many times each day now and have yet to find a pipe that didn't just love it. From Utopia TX... havagoodun!
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smokey	01/18/2007	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
La. Red is an attractive tobacco in the pouch, with ribbons of medium and darker red tobacco, along with a bit of dark perique. It's aroma is a vinegary sweetness typical of red virginia leaf. LR packs and lights pretty easily, with an average amount of relights. The first thing I notice when lighting the bowl is the pepperiness of the perique, followed by the tangy sweetness of the VAs. This theme continues through the first half of the bowl, then the VAs begin to dominate. The taste loses some of its' sweetness in the bottom third of the bowl, something I wish would remain. LR is a very good tobacco, but there are other VA/Pers that I enjoy more, including some in the Hearth and Home series. I do keep a half pound here on hand as I like to smoke a variety of blends. Scores for La. Red: taste- 15 of 20; lighting and burn- 7 of 10; value- 8 of 10. 30 pts. gives LR a * rating. Recommended. Revised review: after my original review, I put up a qt. mason jar of LA Red in the closet and let it set for about 3 years. Talk about a transformation! The VAs were sweeter, the Perique was more complimentary to the VAs instead of dominating them at times and it burned much better. I have to revise my scores: taste-18 of 20; lighting and burn- 8 of 10; and value- 9 of 10. 35 points equals a high ** score for Virginia Spice. Well done, Russ!
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ahleucha	12/13/2006	Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
Confessing I'm fond of perique leaves, the perique in this blend is not necessarily satisfactory to me due to the lack of spiciness. In addition, this blend tastes much sweeter than other Va/P blend does and than I am comfortable with. Maybe time would compensate as some other reeviewer commented. I consumed 2oz. of this and put another 2oz. into my cellar. 2 star rating out of 4.
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