Ashton - Celebrated Sovereign pipe tobacco reviews

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chaplikc	02/11/2004	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
I had a friend of mine give me a tin of this and now im hooked! This is avery good blend. I don't want to call it a straight english blend in that it has a little bit sweeter component than a typical english blend. The flavor of this blend is extrordinary and is probably one of my all time favorites that has come from under the umbrella of the mcclelland family. The smoke is cool, smooth, round, oppulant and makes me salivate when I think of it. There is some complexity in this blend as well. The flavors range from smokey and sweet to lightly earthy and slightly nutty. This is a forgiving smoke in that a fast probably wont get tongue bite, however I find that the complexity of this blend comes out when smoked slowly. When puffed faster it becomes somewhat monochromatic but the flavor is still good. Highly recomended!
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JClark	11/17/2002	Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I have now smoked nearly half a tin of this blend and have enjoyed every bowl equally. The aroma upon opening the tin is very unusual, in my opinion. It has a very sweet smell to it that tends to mellow out after being open for a week or so. The tobacco is lighter in color than most english blend that I tend to smoke regularly, with the occasional piece of broken flake. The taste resembles Frog Morton slightly but to me is a not quite as rich as the Frog (probably due to the lack of the strange casing which compliments the Frog so nicely). This tobacco is a tad more bity than many english tobaccos and does tickle my tongue quite a bit. It has the qualities of an excellent smoke; smokes cool, dry, and all the way to the bottom with minimal relights (generally only one if any) I find the room aroma to be very comforting and pleasant, though non smokers tend to feel the opposite. I highly recommend this tobacco, I feel it is an excellent smoke. However, I tend to prefer my english tobaccos a bit more stout than this one, and while I will enjoy finishing the rest of my tin, I probably will not buy more. UPDATE: I have raised my recommendation slightly on this one. The tin has been finished and I found myself enjoying each bowl more than the last. This will probably not be a regular smoke for me, however, I will definitly be purchasing more to enjoy down the road. Recommended.
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pmonroeb	07/29/2002	Medium to Strong	None detected	Full	Strong
This is a very good English type mixture, but there is nothing to distinquish it from any number of other English mixtures. Packs and burns well. Among the Ashton blends, I preferred Old Dog to this.
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Pipestud	05/19/2002	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
For starters, let me just say that I only smoke Latakia laden blends as a rare change of pace. Most do not rock my world, but this one sure did! Celebrated Sovereign is one fine hodge-podge of British tobacco. Each element complimenting the blend. Not for the weak hearted though, this blend packs as much wallop as ole' Henry Cooper (who once knocked down Muhammed Ali). If you want a different sort of Latakia blend that is more complex than the usual, put on your track shoes and head for your nearest tobacconist. By the way, I smoked my tin of this bloody good stuff in a EXEXEL Barling Quaint that I reserve for only Latakia blends. The experience was just a tad short of religous!
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lustra	01/28/2002	Medium	Mild	Medium to Full	Tolerable to Strong
For many years, Celebrated Sovereign was my go-to English blend. Although technically a sort of "aromatic English" crossover, there is still enough Latakia, Turkish, and Virginia in this blend for me to think of it, perhaps perversely, as an English. Celebrated Sovereign is very rich, with a delicious balance of Latakia and Turkish, and has a wonderful slightly sweet, nutty flavor. It smokes very well and doesn't bite. For a long time, this blend was the principal way one could taste Syrian Latakia. Now that Craig Tarler at Cornell and Diehl has introduced a new line of Syrians, there may be less call for this fine tobacco. I'll always smoke it, though, from time to time, as it is beautifully made and there is nothing else quite like it. Recommended, if for nothing else as a change-of-pace English.
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Jon Tillman	03/26/2001	Medium to Strong	Extremely Mild	Overwhelming	Very Strong
My first "good" tobacco. I had previously only smoked drug-store tobaccos or Tinder Box (Lane) blends, so this was something of an epiphany for me. I went through three tins of it in a month, smoking little else once I had opened a tin of it. This is a dark-looking English blend that contains quite a bit of latakia: medium-brown flecks mixed with blackish brown at less than 50%. Also found in the mixture is the occasional piece of broken flake. I have never smoked the original version of this blend before McClelland began manufacturing it, so I can't compare this mixture to its former self. The tin aroma upon first opening it was sort of moldy and sickly, but after a week or so of sitting open, it mellowed a great deal and took on an almost date-like, nutty aroma.
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Bear	03/26/2001	Medium	Mild	Medium to Full	Tolerable to Strong
Mark Webber was kind enough to send me a couple of cans of Ashton Celebrated Sovereign and I smoked a couple of bowls. Here: my take Appearance: 50g tin, parchment style paper with black design augmented with gold leaf. Very nice packaging. Tin Aroma is that of Latakia, Virginia, and a small amount of Black Cavandish. Seems to be a cross between Frog Morton and Dunhill 965, aroma wise, closer to the Frog in appearance. Packs well, a little more evidence of P.G. than I'm used to in an English tobacco (frog, the exception). Test Drive: Fire hits weed releasing a cross over fragrance and taste similar to, but more "English" than the frog. It has more complexity to my mind than it's McClelland rival. The Latakia is either more pronounced, or less hidden than Frog. The room note is fairly pleasant, for a Latakia blend, the overall body of the smoke is thicker and a "tad" more bitey than most. Overall: 7 out of 10 Bear Claws I would recommend this smoke to anyone who likes McClelland's Frog Morton, but was looking for a cross over that put less emphasis on the Cavandish Flavoring. In my mind the bench mark for cross over is Frog Morton on the Town, and it remains. Bear Graves
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Noorrmm	03/22/2001	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Very Strong
The blend is quite varied in color, with a good deal of dark latakia showing. There is also a significant amount of lighter turkish in addition to the red virginia (which is not all fully rubbed out. The can aroma is VERY smoky, obviously the Syrian latakia making it's presence known. For me, it needed to be a bit drier for cool, dry smoking. When lit, the flavor is complex and well balanced. The latakia is slightly dominant, (spicier than I'm used to from Cyprian), but does not overpower the other ingredients. Burns cool when puffed at a fairly slow rate, stays lit well, ands leaves a clean white fluffy ash. One of my favorites.
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