Peter Stokkebye - Luxury Twist Flake pipe tobacco reviews

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Country Doc	08/29/2010	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
So many reviews already - just a couple notes Quality tobacco, very pleasing flavor, burns nicely. Flavor just not strong enough to give a higher rating.
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WillardFan	08/19/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I've just recently discovered this excellent brand of tobaccos. I love this stuff. I've tried many flake varieties and I have to say that this in in my top five. Very smooth, lights well, burns fairly clean, leaving very little moisture at the bottom of the bowl. The flavors come through when puffed gently. For a Virginia blend, not too harsh on the tongue either. Breaks up easily enough. In a clean cob, you really get all of the subtle variances of this blend...
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SteelCowboy	08/18/2010	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild	Pleasant
I really wanted to like this tobacco. The flakes are unique and the smell is sweet reminding me of cookies. Sadly, that where my interest ends. It is just boring. I put some aside and returned to it about six months later with the same result. The cavendish leaves a unwanted coating in my mouth. It's just not for me. Not Recommended.
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PHOBOS	08/02/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Very good flake tobacco. Easy to smoke. No tongue bites.I like it very much. Yes Pete it is to me. Sweetness, good aftertaste and easy puffing. I recommend it.
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ROBERT	06/17/2010	Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
I find this blend to be easy to keep lit
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	06/10/2010	Mild	Very Strong	Medium	Tolerable
Peter Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake: Nope Sorry Pete, this one just doesn't do it for me. Too much top-dressing or casing or whatever is used to sweeten this blend. Almost cloying. Good tobacco for aromatic lovers with medium range aromatic blend cravings. The other Luxury blends are fine and a couple(but not all) of the Latakia ones are very nice as well but this one is just foo sweet for me. The room note is ,I suppose , all right but nothing I have much opinion on. The strength is O.K. as well (body and mouth effects not overwhelming.) It's just that sweet taste that reminds me of the goopy Lane or Altadis stuff. Can't and don't want to handle it. I am aware that I am in the minority opinion on this and that's O.K. with me Recommend it? Only somewhat and to aromatic smokers. This is not as implied a straight Virginia flake in the traditional sense of the word. It is a very sweet blend which is fine if the smoker likes that sort of thin. I don't. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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Lombard65	05/25/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Great flakes, with a round sweetness with a slightly nutty aftertaste, some light spicy hints that fits perfectly in the smoke. It is a blend that if the flake smoked whole, not broken, smoked in small pipes, it gives really good feeling! My next buy will be no less than 16 or 20 oz
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modelmanmodels	04/18/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
For years and years I've always found my way back to Twist Flake. I'm all over the map with trying new things but when all's said and done, Twist Flake takes me home. Literally..You see on my commute home, I smoke Twist Flake. It burns long and forever and when I get to mid bowl it really finds its own way. I feel my blood pressure coming down as I hit my exit ramp and still have my bowl alit with me. Try this sometime. Budget your time with it as it does burn slow and don't rush it. A real treat.
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ImAFlake	04/14/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Medium	Very Pleasant
I may honestly be done trying other Virginia flakes. I recently tried SG Firedance Flake and I might as well have just put a flaming marshmallow in my mouth. I get to take a vacation from the pipe for a while to heal. I don't understand how two Virginia flakes can be so different to my chemistry, but they are. LTF does not bite me if I pay reasonable attention. Even when it did, it was just a little on the tongue, not the rest of my mouth. The presentation of the flakes and the way they are processed could have a lot to do with it. Nonetheless, I have purchased more of this in bulk and can see having a long relationship with this tobacco. I think others noted that if you heat it up too much, the taste will turn on you. That makes it easy to know if you are smoking it right. Keep it as cool as you can and take it slow and it will reward with taste and great aroma. The bulk price just can't be beat.
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rramstad	04/06/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Another in the excellent Luxury Flake series, this one has a topping which works very well with the underlying tobacco. I may like this more than Luxury Navy Flake, even though typically I prefer VAPer to VA. Great value.
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Hemlock	04/02/2010	Medium	Very Mild	Medium to Full	Tolerable
Very pleasing. And a sprinkling of perique on top of a palm of rubbed flakes makes for a memorable smoke.
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ivycap	03/31/2010	Medium to Strong	None detected	Very Full	Tolerable to Strong
Strong, smokey, calms down a little toward the middle of the bowl. Can be harsh at times. The virginia tasted a little tart. Perhaps some aging would do it some good. I have a feeling the reviews may vary greatly because some of this stuff may have been aged well, while other stocks are not. It's not the quality of the tobacco in question, it's the age. If your order was aged from the git-go, congrats. Otherwise throw it in the cellar for several months and we'll see what happens.
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pipeslayer	03/14/2010	Medium	Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This has been my sort of go-to smoke lately. I love the weird twist flakes, which I just wad up and jam in my pipe. They light and burn great, and this tobacco has a nicely structured, tangy VA flavor to it, with a very smooth and pleasant sweetness underneath. The pouch aroma is sweet and full, earthy with a vinegary note, and I find it quite nice. As with most VA blends I have encountered, I have an urge to eat the baccy. It just smells delicious. I do find that this has to be smoked fairly gently or it bites. It can also get edgy and take on an ashy flavor. Perhaps others disagree, but I get the best flavor and the least pain when I sip it gently. There is some complexity in this smoke, but it is fairly straightforward overall. I enjoy it and find it to be a very high quality everyday VA at a great price. It is better than a number of more expensive ones, for sure. Stokkebye does it right.
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camachoman	03/14/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Although I primarily smoke English blends, this tobacco is fantastic! See the comments a few reviews down from "KinnScience". I completely agree!
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mparker	03/07/2010	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant
Really lovely Virginia flake. My usual method of loading the pipe is to fold it in half twice and just shove it in the bowl. This provides a very slow, cool smoke all the way down. The flavor is very sweet and caramelly and nutty, with perhaps a hint of orange and vanilla that may be from a casing, but if so it is very light. Extremely pleasant all-day smoke. To smoke it effectively in a briar I need to dry it out quite a bit, but in a meerschaum it smokes well even when a bit moist. Great stuff.
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gildervoigts	02/16/2010	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
I bought some of this from my local tobacco shop. I was drawn to it because it looks good and smells great in the tobacco canister. I first tried the cut into 1/4 inch squares method that I use for other flakes, but it didn't work out well as the tobacco tends to fall apart pretty easily since the flake is cut so thin, but it smoked ok. Being that the cut method didn't work as well, I tried the fold and stuff method. When I did this it smoked hot, and seemed not to produce a good flavor. The last thing I tried was a pull the flakes apart and break it into smaller pieces; that was it. It smoked well, tastes good, and remained cool. Overall it has a faint sweetness that kind of has a vanilla-ish (it seems that anything that is slightly sweet has this taste for me), caramelized nutty taste that I enjoy. Recommended.
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alfabet	01/31/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Medium	Pleasant
I recently bought a "sampler" of virgina,cavendish and burleigh, based in no small part on this website and the reviews. I tried the PS luxury twist flake and my first bowl, immediately upon lighting up, struck me as a potentially new favorite. I was struck by the aroma and very pleasant sweetness of the tobacco. As I am condemned to a smoke free office building with windows that do not open, I must take this pleasure out of doors and despite the cold of a 20 degree afternoon, this was a very pleasant experience. I found that loading the pipe with the flake without rubbing it out allowed for a very slow burn and fine, even white ash which could be savored for a good long time. It did get gurgly, often but I find that to be very common with all of my tobaccos. It probably is a result of my preference to them being somewhat moist. Unless you are one who prefers the English blends with orientals (which I have never been able to adjust to in 49 years) this could be THE choice for the smoker looking for a sweeet, slow and fragant smoke.
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LV9	01/14/2010	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
This one is a winner in the category of everyday virginia absolutely nothing wrong to say about this one the taste is sharp virginia with a little bit of sweetness from the cavendish, is easy on the tongue as long as you don't over puff, is ready to smoke from the get go, but I prefer to dry mine at least for an hour before I smoke it, the reason why I'm not giving 4 stars to this blend is because in the nicotine department is lacking for my taste.
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sirchud68	01/10/2010	Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
This is the best presented and smelling of the Luxury Stokkebye's IMO, though I prefer the Bullseye. I find it a little stronger than the Navy. This is always on hand at the local shop so I usually pick up a couple ounces every other trip. Good price. Good taste.
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IHT	01/03/2010	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Very Pleasant
like "Kinn" just said, I don't see how it gets less than 3 stars (or 4). there are a few people who obviously don't like VAs but continue to review them and give them a low rating. as for this blend, I have no clue why it took me so long to try it. I had a decade old sample many years ago, of 2 bowls-worth, and it was excellent. I think the person told me it was LNF, not LTF. This blend packs easily, lights as easy, and has one of the best VA room notes I've had the pleasure of being around. The flavor has none of the "hay/straw" qualities I find in LBF and slightly in younger LNF. oddly, I find this blend to be more "navy" like than LNF, which is a good thing. Flavor changes as the bowl grows older, and right now it has a great tasting spice that I just can't name. easily 4 stars from me.
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