House of Windsor Bourbon Street

I first smoked this decades ago when it was a Phillip Morris product and went by the name of Bond Street. I don?t know if PM changed the name to Bourbon Street when it was still in their family or if House of Windsor changed its moniker when they brought back many of the Phillip Morris products in the 90's. I have enjoyed this blend from either manufacturer regardless of the name applied to it. This is a cube cut burley, with a light flavoring. Phillip Morris used to advertise Bond Street as ?absolutely different pipe tobacco?. It is ?absolutely? difficult for me to pinpoint the light flavoring applied to this blend, all I know is I find it pleasant indeed. This burns cool with no bite, is dry out of the can and can be enjoyed all day. I will miss this blend when my supply is exhausted, will have to investigate one of the ?matches? being offered.

Ok if you have not tried this tobacco or the other floral like offering from HOW (Field and Stream) I say try this one. Upon opening the tin you are greeted with the familure cube cut tobacco of this manufacturer colored light brown to black. The aroma is a "unique" scent in the tin... anise seems to be the overall concensus though to me it smells a bit fermented. Upon lighting the blend one is greeted with an odd floral taste but it fades rather quicky and then it is just an burley blend with a different taste then nutty... must be the casing. The room note is pretty nice and overall this blend did not seem as flowery as Field and Stream... though I liked the flowery taste... sorta grows on you but to venture gradually into the taste try this first.

Oh one other thing the tobacco came very dry in the lil 2 oz tin. I had to douse it with quite a bit of water and mix it up with my finger and give it a day to moisturize. It is a pain in the tookus to do this but worth it just to get through the tobacco. I can not recommend trying to smoke any HOW blends bone dry which is how they seem to come thanks to poor packaging. This is something the company needs to address for it seems to really hurt them with some of their better blends (though on their bad blends nothing can save them I'm talking to you Model, Briggs, and Mapleton).

This was the last tin of tobacco I tried in the sampler of HoW re-issue blends. It IS an 'Absolutely different pipe tobacco' as the tin suggests. At the zippo it is definitely soapy but this characteristic seemed to disappear as the pipe smoked down. Not a bad blend, I thought anyway. Slightly spicy about halfway down. Will probably buy it again.

This gets a limp thumbs-up from me. The soapy thing is a bit forward in a new tin or pouch. I have found as with Field & Stream, to put it away for awhile and return to it when it has a little more age on it. Field & Stream had lost most of the soapy-floral flavor after about a month or so after opening. I expect this blend will do likewise. I will update this review either for or against in a month or so.

This was the very first H.O.W. blend I tried and I went through the large tub last summer like candy! I started out in aromatics as a young smoker and moved to naturals later, and this is the best of both worlds. I get the natural flavor of tobacco and also the powerfull taste of....of....oh well it's yummy thats all I know. This blend led me to try many more H.O.W blends And makes me wish I lived in a part of the country that had this in every drug store.

Here is an old drug store trobacco, of pretty good quality. Of course, it was formerly "Bond Street", and Bond Street's claim to fame was that it stayed lit,and I believe it had latakia? This is Burley, good burley, cube cut burley almost as good as C&D's Brigadier (which I prefer). The aromatic agent is strange,but very good and not over powering at all.This actually tastes like good tobacco. It burns down all the way to the bottom,and isn't sticky sweet cloying or wet at the bottom. I seldom had a bite, and it held it's good flavour all the way down the bowl.A very good Burley blend that is really worth a try.

Wow! that was the first expresion I had when I first lit Bourbon Street. This was one flavorfull tobacco. This tobacco was a throwback to yesteryear. A traditionally made, American tobacco, by House of Windsor. Until I smoked this tobacco, I thought you had to use heavy flavor casing to a cavendish style tobacco, to obtain, aroma, and flavor like you do from this tobacco. I was very wrong. When you first open the container, you are enveloped in a wonderfull aroma, which best can be discribed as orchard like. A cross between a flower shop, and orange trees maybe? I don't know, but it was very nice. the tobacco, is cut in my favorit way, cube. Cube cuts for me, seem to almost pack themselves. When I placed fire from my lighter to the tobacco, that was when the "WOW" factor kicked in. It was almost overwhelming. The flavor was great, to great maybe. I just sat there, smoking, thinking I should stop, but I couldn't. So I continued, I continued till about halfway through the bowl, then the tobacco, turned. This is not a mild tobacco. It has a lota omph, and the nicotine became very noticeble halfway through. The flavor also stopped, being replaced with a rough tobacco flavor, almost as if the remnants of the original flavoring, was mixing with the tobacco flavor, causing it to become almost sour. I had to stop about two thirds down, and dump the bowl. I was disapointed. A tobacco that turns on you, can feel like a betrayal. Like when a dog turns on the master. That was how I felt about Bourbon Street. I still smoke it on occasion, but like a turning dog, I keep my distance. I just smoke it halfway down. I won't let it turn.

As I continue to weave my way through the recently re-released golden oldies now being produced by House of Windsor, the latest stop on memory lane was Bourbon Street.

CJ was right on when he said the smell in the tin and the taste at the match are quite different. Yes, Bourbon Street does have a tobacco taste, albeit a rather heavily cased borbon one to me.

When you first pop the lid of the plastic tin (unless you bought a pouch)and take a whiff, you will swear you have just unwrapped a bar of Ivory Soap. The chunks are on the dry side and easy to pack. Bourbon Street smokes fairly cool too.