The taste is kind of bland.

"Mellow" is kind of an odd name for this. Amphora Original is pretty mellow, really, and possibly more mellow than this. A fairly bright leaf, with a light, easy tobacco flavour. Undercurrents are indeed balsam and mint, which as noted previously, can be transendentally enjoyable (or abysmal, I suppose, if you don't like it). These flavor notes come and go, with a typically dutch spicey/dry tobacco base.

If you hate the stand-by dutch tobaccos Amphora or Sail, probably this won't do much for you. If, on the other hand, you just can't think of what to smoke while waxing your cross-country skis, then this might just be the thing.

Quality is high, smokes well leaving only ash and a few unburned bits (kind of typical of the cut, I find, which is more like a broken rubbed flake than a true ribbon imho).

Over the year's,I have tried three pouches of this wretched blend,and each time I think why do I bother??

Well I do know why I bother,when anybody else smoke's this blend,it smell's 'Really Good'

It light's very easily and stay's lit for age's,for the first three to four bowl's it's great.Infact,even wonderful at time's. Then,when it come's to that fifth bowl,it positively reek's,with a true taste of rank mint,from hell's garden it self!!! Then I start sneezing and my sinus's burn,my eye's water,my throat hurt's,and then my ear's even burn,like a red hot poker is stuck in both of them. Ouch!!

It leave's my pipe's goopy,and has taken awhile to get rid of that horrible,and dreadful flavour after that fifth bowl.

"Mellow,it is not" Get the picture?

It's a definite 'No Go' anymore,Ever Again!!!!

If your a dare-devil,try it at your own peril!!