Robert McConnell - Scottish Cake pipe tobacco reviews

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Fumatore	03/02/2010	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is a very nice blend. It has a lean to the earthy side of Vapors which is enjoyable, but you still find that sweet and tangy Vapor flavor. Another point some of you will appreciate, if you tend to forget to pace yourself, is that one can puff away without getting seared tongue. I am very sensitive to any kind of topping but whatever is used here is extremely light. I would describe Scottish Cake as a nice combination of other Vapors with a touch of the old Murray's Dunhill Elizabethan.
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rramstad	11/01/2009	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant
This is an outstanding VaPer. It's definitely one of those that really jumps right out and asserts itself. Tons of flavor, very tasty, easy to pack, light, and smoke, well behaved in the pipe. Ranks right up there with the best, certainly one of the top five VaPer IMHO. If you like VaPer and haven't tried this, you should.
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DK	09/24/2009	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Hmmm! I have this tendency to refer to this as Escudo Light, and I can't seem to shake it. The tobacco appears to be Escudo, but not in coin form, but more like someone haphazardly rubbed out the coins somewhat. The flavor, too, is Escudo Light. The sweetness of Escudo is subdued, the perique zest is subdued and the overall blast of flavor is subdued. That said, this is a fine tobacco on its own. There is a burley (or Kentucky) body to this blend, but it is also subdued. The virginia becomes more prominent down the bowl but there is an initial wisp of VA sweetness just at the match. The perique stays in the background. If you've tried Escudo and found it too sweet or too heavy or too something-or-other, give this a try. It might just have tamed whatever you didn't like in the former. I'll stick with Escudo, thanks. No real need to revisit this one.
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paulwfromtheden	08/25/2009	Medium	Mild	Medium	Pleasant
I have to say that I did not share other reviewers enthusiasm. Nothing wrong with it just a very 'ordinary' smoke.
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Steden	07/31/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I can't say that I like. I have come to the conclusion that probably I do not like the interaction between Kentuky and Perique. Despite this I have nothing to rely on the quality of this blend, as most reviewers have noted this tobacco burns very slowly and appears without flavoring though casing is very evident.
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Pipe4ever	05/31/2009	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Tolerable
This is a high quality pipe tobacco that contains Virginia and perique, the taste is 100% natural tobacco, the Virginia is not sweet at all, perique is well balanced, overall this is a nicely balanced and natural Va/per. I prefer my VA more sweet than this one,. Not my cup of tea but quality tobacco, worth a try.
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Korndog	04/19/2009	Medium	Mild	Medium	Tolerable
I didn't think I liked this tobacco when I first tried it. Somehow, it didn't seem worth my time in the face of so many 4 star offerings. However, this really found a place with me on the golf course. I can smoke the hell out of it for four hours and be very satisfied. Oddly, my favorite stronger, more sublime tobaccos like stonehaven seem to lose their appeal in this environment. This is a very fine smoke, and I will keep it in the rotation for on-the-go enjoyment.
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SMOKETSES	03/01/2009	Mild	Extremely Mild	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
It is a broken flake and ribbon cut tobacco altogether. I never managed to smoke a whole bowl, because it got very muddy in the end. It didn?t cause any tongue biting, and although I kept it in the cellar for at least a year, I can? say I enjoyed any amazing taste. It is a smooth but also very flat tobacco. I almost forgot that it has some good points: it burns slowly and it has a nice scent in the box as well as in the room. I will definitely not buy it again.
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Casper	02/19/2009	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium to Full	Pleasant
I'm with a reviewer below. This is a Kentucky through and through. It should be called "Kentucky Cake". I sense no perique in this at all though I can see how the tin note might fool some as there is that waft of fig. The Va only comes through in the bottom third - perhaps that makes for a beginner Va experience. A very nice blend and I'll store some tins when I can find them as its far better than the Orlik Kentuckys. I really appreciate that it rubs out further with no qualms and lights easily straight out of a moist tin. Soooo many Scot blends and sooo little congruity! The day I find a "Scot blend" blended in Scotland I'll say yeah...there's a "Scot blend"!
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Dedalus	02/06/2009	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

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Scottish Steve	01/31/2009	Medium	Mild	Medium	Very Pleasant
I bought this and thought I'd found heaven- then I tried Scottish Flake. The Cake is still very good tobacco. Almost unctuously rich, with a long, lingering aftertaste and good complexity of flavour, this is sweet and satisfying, without being cloying or overtopped. There is a slight, woody dryness to the smoke, which doesn't like to be rushed and I think many smokers could use this as an alternative tobacco; something to liven the palate when their stalwart blend tastes a little too standard. I can't think of this without contrasting it to the Flake, which I think is more well-rounded and better balanced, but compared to so many insulting offerings, this shines.
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hagen	01/29/2009	Mild	None detected	Medium	Very Pleasant
update: going through my reviews here, i find that i'll have to downgrade a good deal of the praise i've given so many blends. 4 stars should, i feel, be reserved for the blends i find truly exceptional. so, this is downgraded a bit. end update. tin aroma: slightly winey, hay, classical goodness. cut: soft, rubbed flake. golden brown. packing/lighting: extremely easy. taste/aroma: delicious. again, very clean. it is quite mild, and i find myself puffing a good deal to get some mouth-filling smoke, but it doesn't get hot or biting. quite sweet (not solely from the virginias, i think), a little winey/fruity/citrusy, with the slightest hint of caramel/vanilla/sandalwood. no detectable added flavours but the perique, though it is very much in the background. perhaps it isn't even there, and it's just the taste of well-made, well aged, mild virginia tobacco? the taste as well as the mildness of the smoke would suggest to me that really, there's no perique here. it is certainly no perique bomb like my beloved de luxe navy rolls, nor does it contain near as much as does st. james flake. actually, i've only found one place on the internet describing it as a va-per. most people seem to think it is, though. i like it very much but i find that i go through a tin way too fast due to its mildness (and in all fairness, its aetherical-beautiful taste). still, it is a well behaved and civilized blend, and one of the best made by k&k. it should age well. well reccomended, not least for a virginia-newbie.
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BingCrosby	01/20/2009	Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is my second Va/per experience after having tried escudo.. so my knowledge on how this rates by comparison to other tobaccos may be somewhat limited.. But I will give my thoughts as sometimes a beginner's mind can be helpful.. My first reaction is to how marvelous this tobacco smells in the tin.. very fruity - kind of plum like.. not at all what i was expecting. Very moist.. this is a tobacco that really tempts you even before being smoked.. the texture is very coarse as it would be when you break down a flake in your hand.. I like it - very easy to handle and load into your pipe.. I pack it with my own variation on the frank method.. I prefer not to tamp too much - but this tobacco burns so well that not much relighting and tamping seem to be required.. my first reaction is that there are more flavors going on in this than in escudo (don't get me wrong i love the earthiness of escudo) - i think you pick up more on the virginias and kentucky than the perique at first.. i am also getting a slight fruitiness.. after a few more puffs a richer choclatey flavor is emerging.. now i am getting more earthiness.. the rest of the smoke is just pure pleastness.. I like this a lot - a nice mellow yet satisfying flavor.. I would highly recommend to other beginners..
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strongirish	01/03/2009	Mild to Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant
I just received a sample of this from a very nice man in one of my forums just today. I got out one of my favorite billiards and loaded it up anxiously to try a new blend of Virginia and perique that he highly recommended to me. I have pretty much been a burley smoker and light English, and want to develop my taste for virginias and my taste for them to date just has not developed yet as they scald my tongue. But this heavenly mixture is light on the scald and it really reminds me of my old Amphora Brown but with the perique zing. I have smoked two bowls thus far and have enjoyed both tremendously. And...miracle of miracles...my wife came out on my back porch where I was smoking it and said that it smells good and not heavy and said...you need to smoke that one more! She never likes my pipe smoke. So bless the man that sent me this and I am off to order a stash of it!
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Skando	11/20/2008	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This seems to be the most favorite RmC's baccy, it deserves indeed. I will not add any further comment, people before me said it all about the nice qualities, and I'm of those thinking there's Perique in the mix, or something darn similar. Like most of RmC's it comes quite wet inside the tin (I'm wondering why the hell should we pay for water instead of tobacco...) thus stinging the tongue if sipped fast. Mixed 50/50 with McB's Golden Blend (mostly Burley with very mild honeysh topping) makes the perfect all-day smoke, round and "regular".
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Sasquatch	11/16/2008	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Update fall 2012: Continue to order and smoke this. It's top quality stuff and in the right pipe it really sings. Update fall 08: This is a nice sweet Va/Per... easy smoking but I got bored of it. First Update: The more I smoke this, the more I like it. It's kind of like the Coffee Crisp of the pipe world... "a nice, light snack". Leaves me wanting more, but in a good way. Great dog-walking tobacco. I think I'll try Scottish Flake next time. This one didn't do much for me. Quality is really high, presentation is nice ... "Von hand gemischt und gepackt" gotta love it. Straight tobacco, Va predominant - a nice dark broken flake kind of thing. In the pipe this stuff is very friendly, for sure... reminded me a bit of a Mac Baren product without the acidic bite or honey overtones. However, there isn't a huge amount of flavour here... kind of a rice-pudding atmosphere. Anyway, this is quality stuff, everyone else seems to love it. I was hoping for a somewhat deeper tobacco.
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orka	10/07/2008	Mild	Very Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
I didn't quite like this right out of the tin for some reason. It tasted too similar to Red Virginia, which never managed to impress me much (simply too boring). However, something seems to have changed in the 3-4 months that has passed since I got the tin. It has transformed into a rich, sweet and creamy smoke. Or perhaps it's the emerging autumn, as others have suggested, it does seem to fit in better with the colder weather.
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joseph	10/04/2008	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Sophisticated taste, nice virginia with (imo) just enough perique. Tobacco comes dry straight out the tin, burns very slowly. For me a very relaxing smoke.
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BriarChef	07/19/2008	Mild to Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant
When it comes to Kentucky, I suffer from Terminal Ambivalence unless it has RL Will's fingerprints all over it. I can only handle it in very small doses, and the Virginias and/or Perique need to be the main players. This is top quality weed, but just didn't float my boat. I gave the remainder of the tin to a friend and he loves it.
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Gilly	06/28/2008	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable

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