Altadis - Blue Note pipe tobacco reviews

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ToboldHornblower	06/22/2006	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
The best of the free samples I received from Altadis. I taste and smell vanilla and chocolate. It burns well, not too sticky, and is a good mild smoke. Highly recommedned for beginners. I would not go out of my way to purchase some since there are many other blends I like better but I certainly would not hestitate to smoke this if my favorites were not available.
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zionhead1	06/20/2006	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
tastes like chocolate and vanilla with green river after taste. nothing wonderful though. can ruin a pipe for 3 smokes. no after goppiness or bad taste - just normal aromatic
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pipeman	04/07/2006	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
i'll start with i liked this a lot,a cool smoke,dry,perfect strength.vanilla and choc came through nicely,i wasn't expecting it to taste like either just cause i couldn't really smell it in the pouch.the aroma was very good,i think the balance of the casings are right on.i would recommend this to a beginner,it had no bite and is a all around,maybe even all day smoke.
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jackhackett	04/02/2006	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
Slightly perfumey, slightly wet, lots of smoke, and a slight nip if rushed. Casing (more liquor/floral and less coco to me) seems to work OK with the burley here.
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SopwithCamel	03/12/2006	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I find it remarkable how inconsistent the Tobacco Galleria series is. While some smoke fine, others are cursed with some truly low grade leaf. This may vary from batch to batch, I don't really know. No matter how good the sauce is, you just can't hide low quality, poorly aged tobacco. Fortunately, I didn't have this problem with Blue Note. It is a classic Cavendish blend with a nice choco-nilla casing. I too found it to be a bit like Captain Black Royal, but toned down, and not as wet. It reminded me of a nice cup of hot cocoa. Very pleasant. As I've said before, I like all genres of pipe tobacco, so long as quality ingredients are used. It then comes down to personal taste. While I like a bit more complexity,I can certainly recommend it to other pipesters who have a penchance for this sort of sweet, straight-forward aromatic. It is certainly worth a try.
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Devonshire	10/19/2005	Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant
A very good aromatic with vanilla and chocolate tones that doesn't burn too hot (for an aromatic). While this is a good overall blend, it is very reminiscent of Bufflehead's cinnamon teal. However, I find cinnamon teal superior due to its depth of flavour and consistency during smoking a bowlfull. Blue Note is good, but I will only start smoking it regularly when I run out of cinnamon teal.
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smoker390	07/26/2005	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I thought I might have something different to say than the other reviewers, but I don't. My two cents would just like to add that Blue Note is readily available at most local tobacconists throughout the U.S. and not too wet - a very tolerable change of pace aromatic smoke for a lover of Balkan blends. One can certainly do much worse, as well as do better regarding choosing a sweet aromatic. The taste: a chocolate & vanilla type of fusion. Typical though notable since it is not very wet, does not leave a bitter bite, and a natural tobacco taste is the the foreground. Most of the bowl can actually be finished with only 1 relight. All and all, I think it is the balance between strength and flavor that keeps this blend in contention. I would give it a 3 star for the lover of aromatics.
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viktabak	07/13/2005	Mild	Strong	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I find this blend very hard to smoke. The base tobaccos are unpleasant, with a taste I can only describe as "cheap", while the topping seems very chemical to me. Having never really ventured into the world of drugstore blends and cheap house blends, I have no tolerance for them. Like Captain Black White, this gets dumped halfway through the bowl.
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DUPE.1512	05/22/2005	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
This is another vanilla cased Cavendish, however it does have a chocolate undertone with a hint of spiceness. The VA adds some natural tobacco sweetness and flavor. The room note is very pleasent. Not bad but not a bell ringer either.
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Pounder 5000	01/31/2005	Very Mild	Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
Both of my extremely knowledgeable associates above have hit the nail on the head. This is a well done aromatic that will surely attract the ladies. I even had to try it out at Maker's Piano and cigar lounge in Oklahoma City listening to a performance by a jazz pianist! While I'm a sucker for marketing, I'm not sure this made the blend any tastier, but it did get me compliments from some very attractive young ladies. Better than Captain Black and not as good as old BCA, you could do much worse when it comes to candy tobacco.
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CaptnDan	07/23/2004	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
As Pipestud said, this is in no way related to the CAO/Dan Tobacco blend of the same name. What Blue Note is, is a well-done aromatic. It burns relatively dry, and has little propensity to bite. The taste reminds me of Captain Black Royal, or Nording?s Retriever. For overall quality, I would place it between the two, but closer to Nording than to Lane. (Need I say that the Nording is the better of the two?) A vanilla cased Cavendish with a chocolate undertone and a hint of spice. Some natural sweetness is added by the Virginia. I like it, and the room note is a crowd pleaser. Aromatic lovers will love it. English/Latakia lovers probably haven?t read this far.
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Pipestud	07/18/2004	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
The Altadis company has been very kind in sending my local pipe club a box full of packages of a different blend of theirs every month. Blue Note was a recent gift and frankly, was quite a hit with many club members. This is not at all like the Blue Note of CAO/Dan Tobacco fame. Altadis Blue Note is a lighter and less cased cut of leaf with more tobacco flavor and less of the "cotton candy" taste. It smoked relatively cool and stayed lit well. A fine Burley/Virginia combination for the aromatic lovers among us.
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