Anyways, when it comes to burleys, I love this stuff. The flakes burn just fine if stuffed directly into the pipe. They smoke slowly and last a very long time.

The taste is reminiscent of a good cigar, in my opinion, only smoother. Like a cigar, if smoked too much, it will leave a film on one's tongue.

When I first opened the tin, I detected a weak molasses odor. Whether this was actual molasses, or simply a by-product of the manufacturing process, I don't know.

The room note is gentle. It definitely is tobacco, but it is not harsh like a cigar. Instead, it can be better described as a "sweet cigarette" odor. it's not an odor which will make people around you smile and compliment your pipe. On the other hand, it is not one which will make your spouse yell "Smoke that damned stuff outside."

All in all, I think this is a good blend for fellow burley lovers.

Edgeworth was my first flake tobacco, and my first trials with it were mediocre, head-spinning experiences. Of course, I did a lot of things wrong with it. Once I learned HOW to smoke this tobacco, it became a rewarding blend.

In the tin, very few tobaccos are as impressive looking as Edgeworth. Peeling back the gold-colored inner paper reveals 4" x 3/4" strips packed edge-on into the powder-blue tin. Light and dark tobaccos swirl across the surface. I've compared the tin aroma to date-nut bread - nutty, with a sweet date-sugar/molasses smell.

The flakes rub out easily, pack and light well. Smoked slowly, it's dry, nutty burley all the way from first light to the heel. The molasses-like flavor surfaces from time to time. The flavor is fairly monochromatic, but that's not a bad thing as the tobacco is of good quality. The flavor intensifies as it burns toward the bottom of the bowl.

Edgeworth can finish a little ashy, like most burleys. However, it does finish up less ashy than most. Nicotine content is substantial, but not completely overwhelming. Depending on your nicotine tolerance this may or may not be an all-day smoke. Room aroma is straight tobacco, nutty and faintly cigarette-like.

One hint: Edgeworth layered on top of a half-bowl of Barbary Coast in a big pipe is about as close to Burley Heaven as one can get. BC provides complexity, Edgeworth provides its nutty strength, and the marriage of the two is wonderful.

Pure Burley has always seem to me a difficult weed to deal with. I very much like Larsen?s Kentucky Gold, Pease?s Barbary Coast, and every now and then Haunted Bookshop or even Prince Albert. ES, I believe, is better than the latter but not as good as the former. Not a bad room aroma, it is a smoke I enjoy with a bit of bourbon, as a change of pace regarding Va. or English mixtures.

I reopened the tin and discovered the flakes were much dryer than when I first popped the lid. I rubbed a couple of flakes out and carefully loaded up in a well broken in Jacono Billiard. Remembering how this blend bit the first time, I began puffing VERY SLOWLY. My patience was rewarded in several ways. The strong soapy note I detected several months ago was gone. The Burley taste was very evident too. The flavor, as I remembered it a few months ago when the flakes were moist, was muted. Not this time.

I just finished a second bowl this morning and have decided to finish the tin. Not the most elegant Burley I've ever smoked, but we are slowly becoming friends!

I always thought of it as a burley blend: sun-cured Tennessee and fire-cured Kentucky, elegantly married in a beautifully elaborated flake. It has been topped with some English-style Earl Grey Tea scent.

The flavour has always seemed a bit bland to me, indeed in the Baren Navy Flake family, although the topping here is more definite, and the Kentucky gives it a mild kick which the Baren lacks totally. I am surprised some people were bitten by this: a most unBurley thing to do.

Although not a burley fancier, I cannot condemn such a beautifully worked, mild flake, and I must say that I do appreciate a blend like this when I have a cold. Nice tin, too.

An old American classic.

Physical Characteristics: 4" long, wide flakes that come pretty moist. They rub out nicely if allowed to dry out a bit before smoking, but I prefer to fold them over on themselves and roll them up for smoking. I am always taken with how pretty the swirls of different colored tobaccos are in the cross section of this blend. This is, aesthetically, a very pleasing blend. The packing is easier than one would expect from a flake, and the burn is smooth and even, leaving a light grey ash.

Notes: upon first light there is a pleasant amalgamation of virginia and burley flavors. The virginias shrink away pretty quickly though, leaving a very creamy, nutty burley flavor. The stoved virginias lend the burley some heft, which is a charge that is often levelled at burley blends; they lack body. I have always though that what Burley lacked in body, it made up for in cool subtlety, but if you have always thought burley was 'thin', you ought to try this blend and see what it is like. About one third of the way through the bowl, an earthy taste/sensation begins that I can only find a corollary to in cigars. I have not yet encountered another pipe tobacco that develops this attribute, but it would probably make this a good blend for those pipe smokers who come from the ranks of cigar smokers. This cigar-like quality persists for the rest of the smoke. I find this flake to be an excellent hot weather smoke, both indoors and out. I tend not to smoke much of it during the cooler months, but I sure go through it in the summer. This is a high nicotine blend, and can give the unwary quite a little buzz. It will also bite the crap out of you if you are not careful. Do not be fooled by the burley taste and gleefully puff away like a steam train, as you do with your bulk ribbon burley. There is plenty of stoved virginia in here, just waiting for it's chance to bite you.