Wilke Pipe Tobacco Surbrug's Jackson

(2.75)
Latakia based topped with black cavendish, perique, Tennessee burley, Virginia, and yenidje Turkish tobacco.

Details

Brand Wilke Pipe Tobacco
Blended By John Brandt
Manufactured By Wilke Pipe Tobacco
Blend Type English
Contents Black Cavendish, Burley, Latakia, Oriental/Turkish, Perique, Virginia
Flavoring
Cut Ribbon
Packaging Bulk
Country United States
Production Currently available

Profile

Strength
Mild to Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

2.75 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 03, 2018 Medium None Detected Medium to Full Pleasant to Tolerable
The smoky, woody, earthy, musty, sweet Cyprian Latakia is the most prominent component. The toasty walnut/pecan, earthy, woody, lightly sweet Tennessee burley is a supporting player. The very spicy, plumy, raisiny, earthy perique is an important condiment. The yenidje provides wood, earth, herbs, slight sweet and sourness, some dry floralness, and an “unflavored soda-like” essence, playing around the same level as the perique in terms of its effect. The grassy, citrusy Virginia takes a back seat to the other varietals. The brown sugary black cavendish smooths out the blend a little. The strength level is medium, while the taste is a step past that mark. The nic-hit is just past the center of mild to medium. Won’t bite, has few rough edges, and no harshness. Burns cool and clean at a reasonable pace with a well balanced, nuanced, rich sweet and savory campfire flavor that never weakens, and translates to the lingering after taste. Leaves little moisture in the bowl, and needs an average number of relights. Not quite an all day smoke, but veterans used to this kind of mixture will find repeatable with little trouble. Three and a half stars.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 15, 2021 Mild to Medium None Detected Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
There is a sweetness that is quite noticeable, but is this Tennessee Burley? Overall, the flavor reminds me of Surbrug's Golden Sceptre, but not as strong as this blend. The aroma is wider and smokier, I think, and the bitter chocolate flavor is noticeable in the Retro hale, and overall there are many of the characteristics you would expect in a Burley blend, but not enough to detract from the character of the English blend. I find it to be a blend like No. 524 or Commander, but the "sweetness" I find in these blends is a licorice, royal scot (I don't know what this is) aroma that comes from Wilke's Black Cavendish. There is no chocolate hint, so each blend is sweet with a different character. It is recommended for each pipe smoker's preference.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 14, 2024 Medium to Strong None Detected Medium Tolerable
Wilke Pipe Tobacco
Surbrug’s Jackson

This is a Latakia-forward, medium to strong English with some sweetness and a ton of backbone.

The Latakia is right there from start to finish — if you are an EMP or Presbyterian Mixture or Northwoods kind of smoker and think these are heavy Latakia, then do not try this one; this is more like Nightcap or Gaslight or Bengal Slices.

The burley is the sidekick. The Perique is barely present, maybe a bit of a condiment. The oriental leaf adds a bit of spice. The Virginias are in the background.

There is a campfire sweetness that sort of sits behind the smoke. And yet it’s gritty, like the tannin in red wine that has not quite matured into the juice. Surbrug Jackson feels rough, and the ingredients list suggests the blender threw the kitchen sink at the blend.

Burns cool, leaves little ash, but as I leave the experience, there is a lingering note of too much in your face, not integrated with the other elements. Feels a tad confused. Might wear well with some age.

3 stars out of 4.
Pipe Used: IMP Meerschaum
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 26, 2023 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
If you like hearty Burley blends this could be a three star blend for you, otherwise two stars. Perhaps the percentages in my two ounce sample were different than what others have received, but I didn’t get much of the sweet black Cavendish which would have helped. First light gives a little bitterness like walnut shell, but that soon subsides to a background earthiness. I get some black walnut and unsweetened pecan, a little earthy baked potato skin now and then. The nutty tastes here are not complimented by any of the usual molasses sweetener, and the overall texture is rather firm, not creamy. Cigar smokers won’t be bothered at all by this, but to me it tastes a bit coarse. If this were my blend I probably would have adjusted the pH a little more or used some TS-3 brown Cavendish.

With this amount of burly Burley I probably wouldn’t have wasted good Yenidje in the blend, as it is almost entirely lost. Latakia and Virginia are there if you look for them, but this is first and foremost a Burley blend. The right Perique, like Stokkebye’s dark fruity Perique would have helped here, rather than the slight black peppery Perique we get (the Perique used by Wilke seems to vary by supplier). It’s a real stretch to call what I received an English, or a Latakia dominant blend. I consider it more of an American style mishmash. Altogether, with caveats I could give this three stars (a charcoal filter also helps reduce some of the firmness), but for my general pipe smoking pleasure this only gets two stars.
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