Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Sail Cavendish (Sail Aromatic)

This tobacco has a nice sweetness to it. It's not particularly natural, but it's acceptable enough. Lots of anise with a bit of smokiness. I occasionally get a craving for this stuff but it's rarely enough to make me buy another pouch.

This was the first tobacco i purchased. All in all i found it to be a pleasant experience. The bag said it was an aromatic however i never really noticed anything from either the bag nor smoke.

I cannot nail down what it is exactly I enjoy so much about Sail Green but I do know that I continually crave it. The only word that comes to mind to describe Sail Green is "Creamy". It goes down like a cream-ale with a bit of "spice" sort of like a spiced beer at Christmas time. It has a wonderful flavour that seems to underlie and support, yet without overpowering, the natural tobacco taste like most good Dutch Cavendishes I have tried. The other reviewers can probably better describe exact flavours as I can never really differentiate them (see Christmas note above). I would highly recommend this if you are looking for a robust tobacco with "soft"/medium aroma on top. This is a top notch OTC that is worth a try if you want to get into the relam of Dutch Cavendish. Also, like Sail Yellow (another favorite of mine) it has what I can only describe as a distinct "snap" to its taste simliar to Sail Yellow. I don't know what it is that gives it that snap, orientals maybe, but it definately adds a layer to the spectrum of flavor. Like Sail Yellow, this defniately is not a forgiving tobacco if smoked too hot, for me at least, so watch out. If you try it and don't like it, try slowing down and see what happens. I give it Three Stars and fully recommend. I love Sail Green!

I know, I know, I am an English blend fan who also smokes VaPers, and so what am I going reviewing a blend out or my comfort zone? Answer: nostalgia.

Back in 1965 I began smoking my pipes with old Rum and Maple. After exhausting my father's ignored tin of that I tried a few pouches of John Rolfe before settling on Sail Green for a year or so. After that I began with the Dunhill English blends and stayed English thereafter. But for a few years I did keep a pouch of Sail Green around as an alternative smoke. Back then I could never identify the flavoring of Sail Green. Around the mid 80's it all but disappeared from any source here. I could not even get it when I owned my own supermarket. Reading the reviews here over the past few years piqued my curiosity however and I kept an eye open for some, never finding any locally (and I was not going to do an online purchase of it alone). On vacation in Virginia early this month I found a pouch in, of all places, a "head shop" masquerading as a tobacco shop in my hometown. Over-priced I bought a pouch anyway. The review now commences:

Upon opening my pouch the aroma seemed a little sweet. If there is any Latakia in this, it is well hidden. Turkish may well lurk in it, however, a little at least. The cut is wider than the original I smoked 40 years ago, about twice the width in fact. The tobacco itself is a lot darker as well. The original was more straw colored and in a Margate-like shag cut. This packed easily and lit readily despite the moisture. The burn was surprisingly clean. It does smoke sweeter than that of decades past too. Flavoring....well, the mention of anise here finally struck me as the flavor I could not identify in the past. BUT, despite helping me pick out the flavor of my old smoke, I cannot identify what THIS one is now. No matter, however, I like both. Don't be fooled by that photo above with the tobacco shown about a tin...it is not look at all like that, btw. The pouch says Cavendished Virginias. I believe it - both in cut and in true cavendish processing. The Dutch are masters of that art, IMO. I liked that old Sail Green. And although different, I like the current one as well. The best aromatic OTC blend I know.

(At least I don't anticipate retracting this review)

A nice, reliable and consistant mixture. The partially rubbed-out flakes are medium brown in colour with some streaks of golden brown.

The pouch aroma is hard to define...but pleasant. Not quite exclusively of a casing and not quite exclusively of tobacco.

Labelled as a "drugstore blend" because it is readily available anywhere, I believe this is, despite the negative connotation associated with this class, a very good quality tobacco.

Smokes nicely, releasing something very subtle, similar to a bitterweet chocolate and/or licorice taste with the taste of tobacco.

If dried out sufficiently to remove most of the moisture, it will still preserve its taste and burn dry.

A nice warm weather blend . The package says a few leaves of latakia . mildly aromatic . cleanburn . A little spicy . a touch warm but no big deal .Theres enough nicotine so that when you finish a bowl youre good to go . The spicy thing is the best part of it . There's not alot out there that has a true spicy flavor but this does ... It's in my rotation all the time anymore . Update: NOV.6 2010 ... Turns out this is a good winter blend . An all year blend . It holds it's own in the cold very nicely

Sail Green is a classic and reliable "drugstore" blend that is actually of above average quality.

The slight licorice aroma is everpresent and tickles the tongue the first minutes of the bowl, then makes place for a more natural tobacco taste for the remainer of the bowl.

I love the pouch aroma and I buy a couple pouches every once in a while when I want to smoke a good no nonsense tobacco.

My last smoke of sail Green was about 3 months ago when I smoked the last remaining pipeful from a 20 year old pouch. It was quite pleasnt. Although mild, there was a subtle taste of Latakia and what also seemed to be a chocolate flavor. It seemed to smoke less hot than both Sail Regular and Sail Natural. It was also darker in color and a finer cut than the other two. As stated in my recent reviews of Sail Regular and Natural, I will have to smoke the newer Orlik version and take it from there. My order of preference for the original 3 Sails is the Natural, followed by the Regular, and then the Green. 3 stars for the Green original.

Despite its name, Sail Aromatic is an almost natural mixture (mildly cocoa flavored) with no tongue bite. The Latakia is very subtle, with lemmon Virginias dominating the smoke, backed up by sweet Orientals.

Along with Walnut, my favorite "readily available" tobacco.