Gallaher Limited Condor Blended (Yellow)

Condor Blended offers a mixture of less dark leaf with an attenuated pouch aroma than the Ready Rubbed and Long Cut versions offer. Being very damp upon opening it was very difficult to get anything out f it. Once drier it still proved rather hard to keep lit, took for ever to smoke and had lost much of its taste. I ended up blending it with a tin of GL Pease The Virginia Cream that was too dry upon opening. The new mixture works very well, actually.

Despite what the packaging say's this tastes nothing like regular Condor, I had expected a milder version of the regular Condor but instead I got a quite different beast. Opening the pouch the smell of virginia was very noticeable, but it had a tinge of cigarette tobacco to it, no other tobacco's or flavours could be detected. The cut is fine, much finer than the ready rubbed version and colour is a consistent golden brown. It is very easy to light and smokes well, tongue bite is nil even if smoked hard. However the lack of toungue bite comes at a price, there is no noticable flavour to this tobacco, it is clearly virginia but it lack's the subtle tastes and flavours of other milder pipe tobacco's that aren't mass produced. I got very bored smoking this tobacco, simply because I couldn't get any flavour out of it. The room note is surprisingly stong and the smell isn't that pleasant, it smells a little bit like stale sweat! That said this would be great tobacco for a beginner to pipe smoking, the weak flavouring and lack of toungue bite it might be just the thing for a beginner who doesn't want a shock from too much flavour or bite.