Cornell & Diehl Sansepolcro

When you open the tin you find a nice broken flake tobacco. I can only smell the Virginia, grass, wood, raisins, and floral notes, also a little of fermentation kind of smell.

Once lit it delivers a velvety dry smoke, with sweet, bread, hay, earthy flavors, very consistent flavor. I also detect some honey, brown sugar, cinnamon and nut notes. It gets more piquant as you go down the bowl. I get bread, hay, earthy, citrus, raisin and sweet notes from the red Virginias. The florets give toasty sweetness, woodsy and floral notes along with nuts, black pepper and cardamom flavors. Half the way down the bowl it gets sweeter, and some raisin/dark fruits flavors appear. These Florets from Sansepolcro are unique, they are not very toasty like regular dark fired Kentucky and not so sweet and smooth like Rattray´s dark fired Kentucky. They are more floral, and exotic. Very similar smoking experience to a Toscano Cigar.

It lights very well and burns cool and clean, perfect moisture level out of the tin, and tongue byte free. The nic-hit is a little more than medium level. It leaves a pungent room note (grass, pepper and slightly sweet). Not an all-day smoke in my HO, suitable for the end of the day smoke, very satisfying.