Pipeworks & Wilke - Royal Scot pipe tobacco reviews

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redraider2X1	04/15/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant
Don't know what its in this tobacco, but it is great. Just too bad that Pipeworks and Wilke are now only making it available in some of their blends.
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TomT_90GT	07/17/2009	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
I'm fairly new to pipes, but have tried a variety of tobaccos, including four from Wilke. I'd say Royal Scot is definitely one of my favorites. Not truly an aromatic, but there is still that hint of something interesting. Leaves a good clean aftertaste of pure tobacco unlike some other aros I've tried. Burns well and clean down to dry ash. With some other tobaccos, it helps to leave them out to dry a bit before smoking, but Wilke's seem to be always ready to load up and light. Just finished up my first 2 oz of this and placed another sampler order with Carole, but HAD to make one of them Royal Scot again.
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Young Piper	05/22/2007	Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
This blend has quickly become one of my favorites. The flavor is hard to put my finger on but reminds me of vanilla ice cream. Very light topping that lets the base tobaccos shine through. There is no black cavendish in this blend, its a mix of browns. The blend is just perfect for a stroll as it does not overheat nor goop up ones pipe rarely needing a pipe cleaner. The aroma is to die for as my girlfriend swoons over this one and i always love the room note after i leave the room and enter again later. Delightful chunky blend, i see why it has withstood the test of time!
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sasha	04/16/2006	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Tolerable
Another fine aromatic from Pipeworks&Wilke. Although I don't usually like and smoke aromatics, theirs are enjoyable and without the horrible characteriscs of the black cavendish ones. This made me smile because it smells exactly like the typical Italian Easter cake in form of a dove, so I thought it was the perfect tobacco to smoke in this period! It's definitely aromatic, you can't detect a lot under the flavour, but it burns well, cool and above all dry. The flavour is given for sure by some vanilla, probably with a pinch of anice. The body is light and without any kind of evolution, but the flavour keeps up to the end of the bowl. Good one for the morning.
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akaiser77	02/28/2006	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
Royal Scot is an old, very high quality aromatic. This is how aromatics used to be--strange in flavor (to our modern sensibilities), mild in strength, lightly cased, and without black cavendish. The flavor of this blend is hard to describe: a kind of minty, piquant essence, which mostly disappears when lit. Burley dominates the flavor as you puff. It's not enough to keep me coming back, but it's nice to try this pleasant old blend from the 1870s--every once in a while, that is.
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emmbee	01/04/2005	Medium to Strong	Strong	Overwhelming	Strong
I believe this is Wilke?s oldest blend, having been around for more than a century. Why this stuff endures is anybody?s guess; nostalgia perhaps. I smoked it with a friend of mine and the only thing that came to my mind was Zeppo Marx?s line: ?I wanna tootsie frootsie ice cream!? It?s a cross between a musty English blend and a drug store coated affair slathered in cherry phosphate, nuts and whipped cream. This should be called Schrafft?s Surprise. One of five stars
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thedstnguishdgntlmn	12/29/2004	Medium	Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant
Let me say one thing about htis blend: It can save ANY ENGLISH BLEND THAT DID NOT MEET YOUR ORIGINAL EXPECTATIONS!!That being said the blend by itself is quite unusual and sweet. I like it,BUT it is an ACQUIRED TASTE and some people will simply not be able to do that given the characteristics of this blend. I will say, as a blending agent, it will transform any English blend into a wonderful aromatc-english mixture. I will for that purpose alone keep it handy. Try an ounce in the sampler and you will see what I mean.
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BriarLaw	02/29/2004	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
I really like the tobaccos coming from Pipeworks & Wilke. Very high quality and unique. Give some of them a try. Royal Scot is the Norman Rockwell of pipe tobaccos. While an aromatic, it has nothing in common with the typical cased, PG coated, completely tasteless, flavor-challenged, black cavendish blends. Nothing. I have no idea what the aromatic is comprised of (it is a secret) but it is truly unique and tasty (and I normally do not like aromatics). I have to imagine this is how aromatics were made in the old days. No sticky spray nozzels of stuff or sickly black cavendish. Just high quality leaf aged with a natural aromatic essence. In a way it reminds me of the gently perfumed Lakeland tobaccos, without the awful "soapy" essence. The cut is just great. True Americana. Moist chunky plug cut VAs with nutty Burley. Moderate nicotine punch. Burns clean and dry with no goop at all. Very pleasant room aroma. Give this a try. While it may be too different for some, I think it is one of those unique old-school aromatics that all pipe smokers should try at least once.
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Eulenburg	12/17/2002	Mild	Strong	Mild	Strong
The Bicentennial. Gerald R. Ford. Blond American Cavendish. A vanilla sundae. My late mother-in-law used to say: "Ned, you smell like a pastry shop"! As aromatics go, this was a classic. It certainly went with plaid bell-bottoms and extra-wide, burnt-tangarine ties. Gosh, never again. Girls with white lipstick used to love it, though.
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