G. L. Pease Windjammer

This may be GLP style, adding its own unique flavor to stir.

There was no problem with the nicotine content, there was no problem with the lighting, I just found a little bit of the flavor that the tobacco should have in the last third.

I categorize it into the transit station series and taste it occasionally, but can't spend every day with it.

Mr. Pease ... you did it again, you mad genius!

Popped the tin, sweetness ... molasses, hay, bread, yeast, nuts, raisins, rum, spice, plum, apricots ... oh my ...
You can smell every component listed on the tin. Nice full aroma, all the components playing with each other.

took a measure of the tobacco, laid it out on a piece of paper, and left it in the sun for 15 minutes.

Packed the pipe and gave it the false light. Tempered it down a bit and gave it the true light.
Boom!!!
This tobacco doesn't have rough edges. Guys, you are getting a very consistent, rich, deep Va/Per/Bur. The Cavendish gives out a lot of smoke, and the spiced rum casing combines all the components extremely well. The taste is close to the tin note. You're getting the earth and nuts from the burley, a lot of the sweetness from Virginia, and the perique adds some spice and red fruit / fig notes.
Burned very well with minimal relights required.

Upon finishing the bowl, got two more tins for the cellar.

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Tin note of dark plums, raisins and spices. Tobacco is a broken flake of marbled brown, dark brown, tan and a little black. Moisture content is ok. Most pipe smokers will want to dry this a bit. Broken flakes rub out with a little effort. Burns slow with a few extra relights. The strength is medium to strong and nic is medium. Flavoring is medium, with notes of Rum. Rum seems medium to strong in the beginning and gradually falls to the background by the end. Taste is medium to full and mostly consistent, with notes of spiced rum, tangy dark plums, sugar, floral, molasses, dry wood, tart raisins, slightly spicy, bread, lemon grassy, nutty, earthy, orange peel, a savory zesty sour citrus background note, and a very peppery retro. Virginia is leading with Cavendish, Burley, Perique and Flavoring supporting. Room note is tolerable, and aftertaste is great.

20230316: really enjoying a bowl of this, taking it slowly from a meer. Nice light nicotine buzz most of the way through the bowl, I think medium is a fair assessment. I think most of my original review stands.

Tin note: i get cider. Smoke: spiced (cinnamon in particular), tart, stewed fruit, toast, mild sweetness. This is pretty good, one of the better vapers I've tried I think. The flavor does wane towards the end of the bowl, and the smoke is tough on my mouth. Not my favorite style, but i might consider smoking more of this.

Wonderful tin aroma rum and coco sweetness. The flakes are broken up and pack very easily. Takes a bit of work to get it started. The flavors from the tin aroma are the same as in the tobacco smoke and more. I did not notice the perique in the tin aroma, but its defiantly in the smoke. I would say this is a Burley perique forward blend. The perique is right at the medium mark providing a nice spicy flavor The cavendish provides just a bit of sweetness as well as the Virginia. This is a wonderful blend. complex and satisfying. Burns quite slow. An all day smoke

The tin I opened had a production date of "September 09, 2021." Right now, Windjammer is only packaged in 2 oz. cans, but perhaps, in time, it will be packaged in larger tins as well.

The appearance of the tobacco is a half-broken flake the color of rotten pine with flecks of light Virginia and very dark perique. The tobacco felt a little moist, which makes sense given its freshness.

The aroma from the can hits with a good dose of rum. It was clearly good portion, and it was poured wholeheartedly.

The rum was very young, and along with the alcoholic smell, there was the scent of caramel from the sugar cane. Added to this was a wine note of cavendish.Behind all this "sailor's cellar" the tobacco notes from the can were barely perceptible. I poured the tobacco for the first pipe and let it air out, resting, while kneading the flake into individual fibers. A couple of hours passed, the rum weathered a little, and new notes came into the bouquet: a typical Virginia flavor - mixed grass, some citrus and fresh bread, burley nut (something like roasted peanuts - apparently, the same "black nut"), some sweet spices... But still, the rum was too obvious. The cocoa note I could distinguish from the general flavor only after a few days, and by that time half of the jar was already smoked.

What can I say about the taste? The first couple of pipes brought no admiration - a typical american blend, like from good old American cigarettes, well soaked in rum. Then the tobacco became a little more clear.

The first third of the pipe - rum, caramel, a little bit of Virginia - light but tart citrus, bread, some grass, dried dark fruits. Burley and perique are barely perceptible, but you can catch the presence of some tangy spices if you smoke very slowly and thoughtfully. Towards the middle of the pipe a nuttiness and a woody note appear. The rum wears off, giving way to molasses and subtle aromas of cocoa and cinnamon. By the end of the pipe there is no trace of rum, and the tobacco becomes a smooth American blend, not lacking in originality, but, in general, quite ordinary. Being quite even in flavor and cool in temperature, the blend, however, does not tolerate overheating at all, it immediately seeks to bite your tongue. The strength of the tobacco is medium - I judge from the fact that the large size pipe gave a slight nicotine kick towards the end. The tobacco does not burn too evenly - a couple of times it faded in the pipe, and I had to light it again - and burns into ash of a fairly large fraction, though without lumps. The blend leaves a lot of moisture in the pipe even after drying, I highly recommend bents and/or filters to inexperienced smokers. The aftertaste of the tobacco is woody and nutty.

The smoke is dense for a Virginia Peric representative, smells woody with a hint of sandalwood.

General verdict - I do not share the ecstasy of most people about this blend. It seems that this time the wind of idea got jammed somewhere in the sails of Pease.

Nevertheless, the second tin I will leave closed on the shelf for a couple of years. The amount of burley is small for me, and therefore not intimidating. We'll see what comes out of this blend after time tests.

Nice tin aroma with the rum evident but not as prevalent when smoking. Ideal moisture content and packs easily. Smokes cool, without bite or condensation. Complex flavors throughout the smoke.

I hate to be the party pooper, but this disappointed me. I love almost everything Master Pease produces, but this is just too saccharine. Pease normally has a steady hand with toppings, tries to add only enough flavoring to engage the natural tobacco flavors in interesting ways - and most often succeeds wonderfully - but this blend is over topped for my taste. The topping is too obvious, like an obtrusive film score. It is frustrating because you can tell there are some fine tobacco flavors underneath - if only you can push the darn topping aside. Even drying it out doesn't mute that flavoring enough. Very disappointing. That said, the room note is nice and it smells really great in the tin: like a pile of drunk Fig Newtons. A nice alternative, by the way, is Savinelli's 145. Basically the same kind of animal, but the topping is more judiciously applied. The cut is different though (a crumble cake), and the quality of the tobacco is not as high, but I think it succeeds better. Very sorry, I really tried to like this.

Rum note is apparent at start of bowl and in tin; rum flavor subdues toward end of bowl.

Broker flake. Easy burning. Not wet. Sweet.

Tastes like old Aliester to me (a ribbon cut VAPER but it was an older tin. The Aliester rum note and flavor faded before the halfway mark in the tin. It was fuller at the start of the tin.)

Fullness and roundness of W's tobaccos under the rum note; perique adds body but not pepper to me. Sweet.

Enjoyable and fits into several of Pease's selections.

You need to like rum flavorings here. Highly recommended for fanciers of Pease's unique blends.