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Blend 44
| Brand: |
Uhle's |
| Blender: |
Jack Uhle |
| Tin Description: |
A light Virginia Flake blend with that natural sweet, woody taste. An easy blend to smoke. Note that the flakes are as per the older American meaning: small, easy to load pieces, like the Schermerhorn Flake. |
| Country of Origin: |
US |
| Curing Group: |
Air Cured |
| Contents: |
Virginia
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| Cut: |
Flake |
| Packaging: |
Bulk |
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Average Ratings
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Mild to Medium
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| Flavoring: |
Extremely Mild
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| Taste: |
Mild to Medium
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| Room Note: |
Pleasant
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| Recommendation: |
Highly Recommended
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04/12/2011 |
Mild to Medium
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Extremely Mild
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Mild to Medium
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Pleasant
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| This is a virgina/burley blend that is very easy to smoke. The light topping has a citrus flavor that is pleasant and tasty. The aroma will please all those around you. A very clean burning blend that burns to a fine white ash, leaving no goop. It doesn't tire my taste buds and is delicious bowl after bowl. I will be ordering more.
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DK
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03/06/2011 |
Mild
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Extremely Mild
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Mild
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Pleasant
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| Nice looking, old-timey granulated bright VA. The faintest of top notes provides for a natural smoke that is very lightly sweet. The description mentions "woodsy", and never was that more true than with this tobacco. It had an old OTC-like appearance and flavor but no burley to strengthen the smoke and provide body. Simply a nice woodsy taste, just as Uhle says.
This lacks that citrusy note that I often find wearing in many lemon VA blends. As a result, this should make an excellent blending tobacco. I'm going to add some robust dark burley to this and see what I get. The only problem with this one is it fails to excite me. It's a Steady Eddie and of obvious high quality but it isn't something I'd smoke often. There's nothing in the way of complexity or joie de vivre. This is a simple smoke, perfect for when you are busy with other tasks. Even so, this is a worthy blend for folks looking for a toned-down tobacco that doesn't call much attention to itself. I can't wait to blend with this stuff!
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wosbald
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12/06/2009 |
Mild to Medium
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None detected
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Medium
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Pleasant to Tolerable
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| The pouch aroma of this mixture of cube, flakey bits, and short-cut, medium ribbon is both richly sweet and grassy with the clean, herbal scent common to white burleys.
This is a classic american blend of burley and red VA. Comprising the fundament are the cube and ribbon burleys which are clean and about as elegant as burley gets. A substantial helping of red VA flake, broken into tiny shards as well as ribbons, provides ample sweetness and variance. There is a smattering of dark cavendish to add a variance and round the edges, though it is not distinctly noticeable in the smoke.
Blend 44 is stimulating and companionable, yet above all, honest and wholesome. There is nothing fancy here, just top notch ingredients which are unpretentiously prepared according to a venerable, homespun blending tradition. This went well in a chamber of any gauge.
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SopwithCamel
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05/17/2007 |
Mild to Medium
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Extremely Mild
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Mild to Medium
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Pleasant to Tolerable
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| Uhle's #44 is just a good old fashioned granulated Virginia, with a hint of top dressing that gently improves the room note. The taste is mild, toasty, woodsy and just a little sweet.
I can see where this would just be too mild for the Virginia Flake fan, but would make an excellent change up for the Burley lover, or aromatic smoker. The quality is top notch. It's easy to load, easy to smoke, and just about biteless. (But don't pull on it like you would a burley blend. Gentle sips work best.)
This is a friendly easy to take mixture, that is just the thing for quiet leisure, such as reading the paper or a good book.
Definitely worth a shot.
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Effluvinator
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03/02/2005 |
Mild
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None detected
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Mild to Medium
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Pleasant
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| In appearance this one reminds me of some of the older burley blends that are now referred to as "drug store" blends. The taste is of a straight VA with just the slightest natural sweetness. This is not as full-flavored as many of the flake VA's or even something like MacBaren VA #1, which has quite a bit more flavor compared to this. On the other hand, this one is much less likely to bite. I don't smoke this often because I usually prefer something more robust, but it is a good tobacco when my tastes are being dialed down to the lighter side and I want the natural taste of VA tobacco. This is also a good neutral tobacco to use in blending.
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grimpeur
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03/01/2005 |
Mild to Medium
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Extremely Mild
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Mild to Medium
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Pleasant
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| The first two sentences are from Uhle's catalogue description of this tobacco. I hesitate to call it a blend; I believe it's straight bright Virginia tobacco, barely, if at all, sweetened.
It's a mild, smooth, easy smoking tobacco. From an era when a man would smoke an inexpensive tobacco, in an inexpensive pipe and still expect satisfaction. One could smoke pipe after pipe of this, I haven't experienced tongue-bite with it, and there is no dizziness. And the aroma is wonderful: exactly as advertised.
What's not to like?
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