Low Country Pipe & Cigar Rum

The Virginia cavendish provides tart and tangy citrus, grass, bread, sugar, a little floralness, and very light honey and spice notes as it takes a small lead. The nutty, earthy, woody, mildly sharp and sour, toasty, lightly spicy white burley is a supporting player. The rum is a tad weak, while the maple is lightly applied. The toppings mildly tone down the tobaccos. The strength and nic-hit are a step past the mild level. The taste is a notch past that mark. There’s no chance of bite or harshness, and barely has any rough edges. Burns cool and clean at a reasonable pace with a very consistent, mildly sweet flavor that extends to the pleasant, short lived after taste, and room note. Barely leaves any dampness in the bowl, and requires few relights. An all day smoke that lacks depth.

-JimInks

Low Country, Rum: A standard white burley blend with a little rum topping

The white burley is the star of this blend. It is a little nutty and produces a pleasantly thick smoke. The cavendish seems to be made up of barely processed Virginia tobacco, which offer some bright-grassy notes to be smoke. This is not your standard black cavendish and it adds no creaminess to the blend, though the blend as a whole has no harsh spots. The topping is barely there. I can taste the rum but not the maple syrup. As such, I tend to group this tobacco with other codger blends and not as a heavily cased aromatic. The room note is almost a dead ringer for cigarettes, which I don’t mind, but my friends commented on it. Overall, I like this blend but not enough to buy more of it.

Low Country - Rum.

Like the picture here it's a medium size ribbon, constructed of mostly brown and dark brown pieces. Only a few border on being black, and to ascertain the true colour I had to take the pouch into the garden to use the morning light to help quantify: dark brown or black?! It has a slightly sharp, alcoholic aroma. The pouch looked like Smokingpipes.com had brimmed it way beyond the prescribed one ounce, bless them!

Sadly I can't reward their generosity with any higher than one star. It isn't all bad, the smoke's cool, it doesn't bite, and the tobaccos have a sweet, nutty flavour. But the wheels come down on L.C.R. when the rum's taken into account. The best word I can use to describe the topping would be bitter. Rum? Well I get no molasses, sugar, or actual flavour, the only thing I pick up is an astringent alcoholic character: tastes like it's been cased with methylated spirits.

Nicotine: mild to medium. Room-note: pleasant to tolerable.

Sure, the tobaccos don't taste too bad, but considering the topping tastes like rubbing alcohol there's no way this gets any more than one star:

Not recommended.

A sweet aroma in pouch with an alcoholic tinge. Slightly sticky in the pouch, so dried out 15m.

Firstly it just tastes sweet, but upon reading the toppings this does actually taste of maple. Then you appreciate the Cavendish taste, a light vanilla. If there is Burley here it is concealed by the Cavendish taste. Really a sweet smooth smoke, with no bite or harshness. The rum shows up when you draw hard, but it is a light addition. Nicotine is low to medium. This is an easy going smooth sweet smoke and as such fits the bill if you hanker for something sweet & don’t want the calories of a cake !

I recently reviewed Low Country (Cornell & Diehl) Hazelnut, and though I emphasized that it is not the best pipe tobacco ever, gave it four stars because it is still good, and a GREAT bargain. This one is a similar situation; decent aromatic at a great price. Only one criticism: the rum topping smells and tastes like McCormick Rum Extract, and I would not be surprised if that is what they used. Old lady's rum cake at a church picnic! Still, the tobacco smokes well, and I can always case, stove, and re-top it. Same price as Hazelnut; just over $20/lb, and I will try the Vanilla next, though they probably use McCormick Vanilla Extract for that...so, though I wish it had a more genuine rum flavor, three stars for effort, and value.