G. L. Pease - Original Mixtures: Haddo's Delight pipe tobacco reviews

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Gordy	06/18/2009	Very Strong	Strong	Very Full	Extra Strong
Absolutely vile!
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PipenGuitar	06/06/2009	Strong	Very Mild	Overwhelming	Tolerable
Well, I can't seem to enjoy Perique. I respect this blend for its quality in that it burns well, smells just fine (both in the tin and whilst smoking it), and the flavor....EXCEPT for the peppery sensation of DOOM. If your a Perique lover, then this blend is for you.
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DaveS	04/02/2009	Medium to Strong	Mild to Medium	Medium to Full	Pleasant
This blend is an enigma to me. Smoked two tins, loved it, bought a pound, hated it. Can't figure this one out. Tins were flavorful, satisfying, and had a great unique taste. Pound was weak, burned very quickly, and had no flavor after a few puffs. Have smoked most Pease blends, and found them top notch. Guess I'll give whats left to the homeless. Update 4-15-09 Opened my last 2oz tin, and found it again superb. Guess any blender can have a bad batch. Definately try this blend.
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Quick_nick	03/16/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
Haddo's is a decent hybrid VaPer. I usually like VaPer's with a pinch of Latakia like Piccadilly or a little Izmir like Embarcadero. However Haddo's is nice a nd round and flavorful, lots of good natural tobacco flavor and the ingredients are impeccably blended like all of Pease blends.
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Pipepundit	03/05/2009	Medium to Strong	Extremely Mild	Medium to Full	Pleasant
Where I have chosen to live even pipe cleaners are difficult to find, and good tobaccos almost impossible. But the reviews on this site had piqued my curiosity, and I wondered if the blend would be a hate-it or love-it tobacco like Erinmore Flake or Royal Yacht. It took a major effort and considerable patience to acquire a quantity of Haddo`s Delight. On opening the tin the aroma reminded me strongly of Momoyama and Dunbar. There was the same winey and fruity redolence which I rather like. In the pipe HD showed impeccable manners. It is easy to fill, burns sweetly and consistently without gurgle or bite. The taste is consistent with the tin aroma, and I can best describe it as Dunbar Plus. Until now Dunbar was my preferred virginia-perique mixture. HD is a trifle more intense, and I rather think I like the extra intensity. Strongly recommended, especially to those who have enjoyed Momoyama or Dunbar.
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Dylan Browne	02/27/2009	Medium	Very Mild	Medium to Full	Pleasant
I know most people say that in order to get the most out of a particular blend one must smoke at least two tins or more and I have in no way done that... yet. I just couldn't wait to tell you all what I thought of this blend. I have this habit of reading tobacco reviews a lot while I'm sitting online at work and at home, the wife gets a little annoyed by this I think but I really enjoy learning about tobacco. So I have been looking at different perspectives on this tobacco and as with any tobacco I suppose there are people who love it and people who loath it. I happen to love it after only one bowl no less! In my internet search I stumbled upon a review by someone who drew my attention to the fact that Oliver Haddo was a caricature of Aleister Crowley in a book called "The Magician" written by W. Somerset Maugham. And I would say that Mr. Crowley would probably be pleased by this blend because it really is Magick. Now on to the review. Upon opening the tin I was greeted by a strong smell of some sort of alcohol, not quite sure what type, I'm thinking rum. What ever the smell was it smelled delicious. I loaded up my La Scala because it has a slightly bigger bowl using the method suggested by Rich Hacker where you trickle in tobacco and tap the side of the pipe to settle it and lightly press the tobacco with your finger and repeat till at the top. I filled it fairly loosely as per the suggestion of Puff. And off I went to to balcony. After the lighting had been done I settled into a wonderful smoke. The taste reminds me somewhat of Peterson's Special Reserve 2007 only much much better because Haddo's smoked with no bite whatsoever. It did burn a bit hot but that was, in all fairness, probably my fault because I was smoking it a bit fast because I liked it so much. I could definitely taste the perique which is a big plus as I am becoming more and more a fan. It had a pretty strong nicotine content, made me feel like I should have eaten before trying out this one. Never the less I really did enjoy this one more than I have enjoyed a blend in a while. This is only my second foray into Mr. Pease's blends and I am not sorry for it. My first was Maltese Falcon which I still enjoy very much. This will be a part of my rotation for the foreseeable future. I plan on getting a few more tins to begin my cellar I can't wait to see how this changes with age. It can only get better and that makes me very happy. I give it four stars.
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periqueguy	02/26/2009	Medium	Strong	Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
Although I love and mostly smoke perique blends, I found that the flavoring in this blend was too overpowering and detracted from the tobacco's natural flavors.
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bryantm3	02/22/2009	Medium	None detected	Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
It's hard to hate this stuff. When I first tried it in a meerschaum, I could've sworn to you that it had a brandy topping. However, I usually hate flavoured tobaccos, so I knew something was up. Asked my tobacconist, and he told me that it was the generous helping of perique that transformed the flavour. Ever since, I've liked it. The way that G.L. Pease can create such a rich flavoured blend without adding any junk is admirable, whether you like the flavour or not. Now, how it smokes. First light always tastes funny, so give it a minute. The brandy notes start to come through and you have a rich warm tasting tobacco. Halfway down, the perique starts to seperate from the virginia a bit and create a spicy taste like Stratford, G.L. Pease's other vaper. Depending on how you pinch it out, the bottom of the bowl can either taste spicy or have a rich chocolate-coffee taste. If you want spicy, put some more strands of the darker coloured tobacco in the bottom? that's the perique. If you're like me and you like to have it fade into an aged virginia taste with coffee notes, pinch a bit more of the lighter coloured tobacco in the bottom. Smokes to a whitish grey ash. A great blend all around.
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Xeneize	02/13/2009	Strong	Mild	Full	Tolerable
Ahhhh, Haddo's! So unique, it's almost impossible to describe. The best I can come with it's a full bodied VaPer with a wonderful and very mild cocoa, plums and figs flavoring, but that description falls short. I could also compare it to Anniversary Kake as they are both cocoa-flavored VaPers, but Haddo's is much more than that. Not necessarily better, just more complex. Its only minor drawback is a mouth drying effect. If you're into VaPers and you haven't tried this one, you're missing something big. I wish my grandfather would have lived long enough to do it.
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kg0mz	02/09/2009	Medium to Strong	Mild	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
This one baffles me. I have smoked it for going on two weeks, one bowl a day. Sunday I rubbed out several coins of Escudo. Escudo is bliss. On the heels of the Escudo, the HD tonight was near-revolting. I thought please make it stop! I cannot finish this. I just bought a pound of this stuff. What will I do with it? The perique rush was disturbing. Then came a wave of very bland cavendish blah, ugh. I thought, VA, burley where are you? And then mid-bowl the HD morphed, or did I? I cannot describe this wonderful, exotic experience in tobacco terms. Aberlour A'Bunadh? Woody, sherry, dried fruit. If Escudo was vaper bliss on Sunday, the HD was a slice of Speyside-like heaven tonight. It has been an hour, and I am still enjoying the finish. Your mileage may vary.
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Slimstem	12/28/2008	Strong	Mild	Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
36 years ago about this time of year I returned home from the hospital after having my tonsils removed. I?d not had any solid foods in a few days and my wife had a tray of nuts in the shell in the center of the kitchen table. The walnuts looked especially good so I cracked and shelled three or four of them, chewed until almost liquefied and swallowed. When that mixture of walnuts, saliva, and tannic acid hit the tunnel of hamburger which was my throat at the time I became acquainted with the sensation known as 10 on the pain scale. So why do I mention this? Well everyone has different smell and taste receptors (thank goodness what a boring world if that were not true) and the tin note of ?Haddo?s Delight? is to me as the taste of walnuts to my tongue. Which is not a bad thing at all; I still enjoy walnuts now that my throat has healed quite well now. Ok, maybe it?s more like a baked confection with fruit and walnuts, but it?s the walnuts that yell the loudest for me. So, really nice tin note. First third of the bowl?s flavor is pretty true to the bouquet of the unlit tobacco. Second third, things progress to a deeper level with the Perique announcing its presence in a very nice way, the quality of Perique used in this blend is the best I?ve ever smoked. Home stretch, Virginias, burley, (and Cavendish which I usually steer clear of) meld into one of the most rewarding smokes I?ve ever experienced. The remaining fine white ash is a bit like the cremation of a very complex friend I?m glad I spent time with and one who will be resurrected on a regular basis. And the moral of the review and story is pain comes and goes, and there may not be any connection between past unpleasantries and future rewards. T'is best to live in the moment.
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al1	12/19/2008	Medium	Very Mild	Medium to Full	Tolerable
I did not think I cared for perique until I tried this blend. In most cases (mclelland in particular) it gets my eyes feeling like they are welling up with tears and the urge to sneeze comes on. Not in this case. The blend stars off peppery but quickly settles down into a smooth taste. It retains the pepper overtone throughout the bowl but the stewed fruit flavors normally associated with the perique build towards mid bowl. I can't say I'm thrilled with the way my clothes and surroundings smell after a smoke but it tastes very good. The blend might not be my favorite but it is very solid and as another review mentioned "serviceable". The tobacco leaves a fine salt and pepper ash. Also burns pretty cool for perique. No bite here- but I have never found bite in any Pease blend. I will use this mainly for a change of pace blend. I normally go for the G.L. Pease Caravan (which can not be praised enough), but this is a nice way to mix it up. I pretty much hate burley and if it was removed from the blend and replaced with some orientals this might be a 4 star. If you like or love perique give this a try, just realize this should be classified as a perique blend as that is the predominant flavor. You won't find too much else here. Good stuff, but then again I have not tried one of Greg's blends that was not at least a 3 star. Also worth mentioning as moist as the tobacco is out of the tin, it IS the perfect moisture for this blend. As always when smoking Greg's blends my pipe ends up dry with no dottle. This is part of the magic of his blends. They always smoke dry to the end, without any real effort- therefore greatly extending the lifespan of my tins and the pleasure of my smokes.
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beaupipe	12/03/2008	Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is one of those tobaccos that lately can do no right. So much has been written about it that new smokers seem to get upset when the face of God doesn't appear in the first puff of smoke. "Hey, I just smoked my first bowl of Haddo's and my underpants are dry as a twenty year old pouch. What a rip-off." I hear you. Oh well. I've been enjoying Haddo's for some time now and I find it a perfectly serviceable blend. The tobacco quality is excellent, after all. In the tin it's all butterscotchy but in the pipe it behaves like a mid-weight VaPer with a twist. It's neither impressively intense nor disappointingly bland. It's just good. The way I see it, Haddo's doesn't have a thing to apologize for. It's the authors of all those hyperbolic 4-star reviews who should be held accountable. Haha.
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Hermit 78	11/14/2008	Strong	Mild	Full	Tolerable
This is a weird blend. There's virginia, burley, cavendish, a rum casing, and enough perique to kill a 12 foot gator. Tastes like chocolate, raisins, and pain. I like perique, and smoke va/pers almost exclusively, but this is either very macho or totally ridiculous.
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butman	11/10/2008	Strong	Mild to Medium	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
After a lot of encouragement I finally tried Haddo's. The blend turned out to be a positive experience. Love the perique, love the viginina, but there is a complexity to this smoke that just makes it enjoyable all the way down the bowl. It may also be that touch of Cavendish that adds the burley tingle to it. I doesn't light as easily as some blends, but once lit it burns nice and clean. Recommended in the medium to larger bowls; it doesn't seem to develop if packed tightly into a small bowl. Now I don't smoke it regularly as it fuller flavored than I like so I experimented and found that 1/2 Haddo's and 1/2 Cumberland make for a really great smoke not as full as Haddo's and more interesting than plain Cumberland. The topping/casing is the same so it blends perfectly. I have enjoyed it in Danish, English and meerschaum bowls with good success.
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z_evil_genius	11/03/2008	Mild to Medium	Mild	Medium to Full	Tolerable
I really tried to like Haddo's considering that it is so well rated. But it just turns out that I am more of a Latakia fan than a virginia fan. So I advise that most people take this with a grain of salt. Read my other reviews to see what my other tastes are. If you don't like Latakia, then you might like Haddo's, but for me it just doesn't work. I can't even describe the taste. It simply doesn't set well with me. So, if you really like Latakia, such as Penzance or My MixIure 965, then you might feel as I do, that Haddo's isn't your style. It isn't a bad tobacco, seems to burn to a white ash and is decent in most respects. I just don't like the flavor or aftertaste. I'm hoping my opinion will change by the end of the tin, but I doubt it. [Edit] It's been a while, but after finishing the tin, I still feel the same about it. It just doesn't work for me, although my tastes have changed a bit from the strict Latakia blends I was smoking.
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Matty	10/17/2008	Strong	Mild	Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
Most of my pipes reak of haddo's , most of my cellar is filled with haddo's , most of my thoughts are about when I can smoke more haddo's and when I am smoking haddo's I am wondering if there is haddo's in the afterlife?
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SirLoirn	10/09/2008	Strong	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Tin: Smells chocolate, red wine, ethanolic-brandy(supposdedly rum), light vinegar; not smoky or pungent at all. Supple to dry, not at all sticky. Brown to dark brown-black; not able to differentiate the colors any more specifically. Random cut varies from short and shaggy to long and stringy. Tin date on bottom: 121806, meaning tinned on Dec. 18, 2008. Packing & Lighting: In a given blend, consistency of cut, and the intricate mixing of the resultant tobaccos, is indicative of quality, re Dunhill's SM. Lights with one match all the way to the bottom. Taste & Aroma: Top Third: bland taste; vague woodsy aroma tempting one to inhale. Middle: quite mellow woodsy taste and aroma. Bottom Third: Light and mellow sweet nutty taste and aroma. Never smoky or pungent at all. Nicotine: Full Room Note: Pleasantly sweet nutty Overall: For all the hype, I was expecting a bullseye, but got a near miss. I agree with some, that the taste and aroma, becoming noticeable towards the bottom, indicate that burley and cavendish are the main players. Never smoky or pungent, I'm betting that HD does not have much Perique. Compare to McClelland's Blending Perique. HD does not seem to merit all the hype, and because of that , I give it 3.3 stars, recommended.
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traveler	10/06/2008	Medium to Strong	Mild	Full	Tolerable
I've tried tins of this twice?over a couple of years. It's the kind of blend I normally like, but it's been a basically unpleasant acquaintance. The problem, as has been noted by a couple of reviewers here, is that there is just too much Perique in Haddo's for me and despite its pleasant aroma, it is unbalanced and harsh on the throat.
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Dubinthedam	10/06/2008	Medium to Strong	Medium	Full	Tolerable to Strong
A nice VA/perq, a bit too vinegary, too moist in the tin, but it has a nice malty balsamic taste that puts it in a league of its own. A nice natural earthy flavor. EDIT: this ages well and gets less vinegary as time passes, the cavendish and rum pops out more too, hence I up it too four star.
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