Hearth & Home Bright Night

The bright Virginias provide a fair amount of tart and very tangy citrus, grass, some earth and wood, light bread and floralness along with a few grains of sugar, a drop of honey and a pinch of spice. This blend was pressed into a cake and then placed in a holding press for a month. As a result, the brights are mostly very dark with streaks of bright throughout the plug. This process smoothly rounded out the flavors and eliminated most of the rough, sharp edges and most of the acidity usually associated with bright Virginias. It also imbues a richer, deeper, smoother, mellower, matured, lightly fermented quality to the experience. The sweetness gets a little richer by the half way point. There’s no chance of bite or harshness present. The strength is a couple of steps past the center of mild to medium, and the taste nearly reaches the medium mark. The nic-hit is a rung below the strength level. The plug is moderately moist, and is ready to smoke when you open the tin. No matter how you prepare this easily broken apart plug, it burns cool, clean and a tad slow with a very consistent, lightly creamy, mildly sweet and very slightly savory, floral flavor that translates to the pleasantly lingering after taste and room note. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires some relights. Can easily be an all day smoke.

-JimInks