Tabac Manil Le Petit Robin

This is the only blend Manil currently makes, not sure what's in it, but it seems to be just a small percentage of Semois involved. Frankly, I find this rather bland and tasteless, and the only reason I'm doing a review here is because of the cut... this is the only tobacco available in America that matches the Japanese kizami tobacco that you roll into a little ball and smoke in a kiseru... this is about the finest possible cut of tobacco... think of how fiberglass insulation comes, a super fine, hair like consistency. Koiki is the only Japanese produced brand I think is still available for the kisaru, and I've never seen that on the side of the Pacific. So if you ever want to feel like a samurai, having a last Puff while writing your death poem before battle, here's your tobacco! I'm betting there's a fair amount of decent Virginia in this tobacco, but I get mostly just a cigarette kind of taste, and talk about something burning pretty quickly! I happen to have an old kisaru, so it was kind of nice to dig that out and have a tobacco that would work for it... it makes for a very short smoke. I see plenty of good reviews here, and they are certainly valid, as this is a quality tobacco, but compared to the straight Semois... this is kind of meh for me. I just wanted to put my two cents in here because nobody has really mentioned how fine a cut this is, and it is identical to the Japanese type. If anybody knows an American source for Koiki I'd love to hear about it... it would give me a better excuse to pull out the old kiseru...