This is not a grand tobacco by all means, but is far superior to other drugstore blends as Captain Black, Sail or Borkum Riff in that the topping does not hide the tobacco taste (VA & BU), smokes wonderfully dry and leaves nice gray ashes on the bottom of the bowl which do not affect negatively the caking.

The rum & wine topping gives a nice, sweet and pleasant taste. The roomnote is surprisingly soft and non intrusive.

Sometimes, I just don't feel like preparing flakes, or rubbing out some coins or medallions. That's when I reach out for Old Port.

First off this tobacco smelled like some filthy alcoholic you'd run into behind the Greyhound station. It smelled of cheap booze. It is long ribbon cut and not what I am used to in a pipe tobacco. I smoked the first bowl in a long stemmed pipe I bought in Poland that I always use for new tobaccos. First impression? Where is the taste? Nothing. It did have a somewhat pleasant natural tobacco after taste, but on the inhale, I got nothing. Next I noticed it make my mouth and in particular, my palate feel like a mixture of burning and needles and pins. AS I got down through the bowl, I noticed very slight traces of grape and rum (?) although nowhere near the flavour an Old Port cigar or cigarillo has. When I got to 3/4 of the bowl, my head was spinning and my stomach was rolling. I'm used to smoking a pipe and I also smoke hookah with tobacco shisha but this stuff made me feel like a first time 13 year old cigarette smoker. I tried a few more bowls of this crap until I decided it would be best to just give it away.

Don't' waste your money on this shit. It is worse than Borkums Cherry. At least I could smoke that crap.

This done I want to warn everybody that would fall in the trap of buying this awfull tobacco. I bought a pouch something like more than two years ago and it is still waiting (and will for long) in my storage.

As long as my opinion worth something I would say thats this one is too much aromatized and much more than that is aromatized with an awful and lethal flavour of cheap rhum from the alambic of and old illegal bootlegger from the swamp...

Well, I don't like it, but maybe you will and it is alright like this!

Salut bien!

A classic broken flake combination of VA, burley and some Cavendish, enhanced with a rum & wine topping, it brings a nice change of pace.

I have not tried the new product.

I enjoyed it, a no non sense tobacco with a nice pouch aroma.

The casing would tickle the tongue at times.

There's not a lot of moisture in the pouch but plenty of stems. Packs and lights well. I found the nicotine so strong that I felt sick and had to stop puffing on this early in the bowl, but my wife doesn't find this at all. I found slight tongue bite but my wife found none. Go figure.

Room note is only very mildly aromatic but the suggestion of cigar smoke does come through........once again, my wife did not agree.

All I can say is give it a try and see how you like it...or not. I can't smoke this stuff, but my wife can smoke it all day long.

Next to Blatter 1907, this is her second favorite. So I suppose based on her assessment this tobacco rates a recommend. I'll stick to my Sail Green and C.B. Royal for an aromatic and Blatter Mild English for my English blend.

January 2010 UPDATE

Well since the Danes have gotten their hands on this Canadian brand they have obviously had free reign and changed the recipe....thank goodness!

I have a feeling that Orlik is the S.T.G.-owned company making this brand now since I detect hints of Sail Natural in this. I wish the pouch indicated that its a new blend but it doesn't. In fact nothing has changed on the pouch itself. But the contents have. The aroma out of the pouch is still alcoholic but less intense.........less of a casing and more of a light topping. Gone is the rough shred burley and virginia. In its place is a typical gold and brown Danish cavendish.

In my opinion its drier in the pouch and lightly fluffy. Packs and lights easily and burns all the way down to a white/grey ash. The smoke is very dry on the mouth.....like after a glass of a very dry red wine. It is significantly lower in nicotine....a lot lower...to my liking

The room note is no longer cigar-ish, but a typical Danish cavendish with more pipe tobacco aroma.

The aftertaste is dry and slightly bitter on the back of the tongue, but it is much more enjoyable to smoke than the original recipe in my opinion.

Since you can walk out of the gas station with it for under $17 CDN, making it the cheapest 50 gram pouch you can buy, I would now recommend it with 3 stars.