7-20-4 Boston Tea Party

The Basma and sharp Izmir offer a wealth of earth, wood, floralness, vegetation, herbs, spice, dry, sharp sourness, some buttery sweetness, and smoke as the lead components. The white and dark burleys provide plenty of earth, wood, nuts, mild molasses, and dry, sour sharpness as supporting players. The white burley is the more obvious of the two. The red and gold Virginias form the base of the blend with the gold in the lead. They are a couple of rungs above the condiment line. They produce a fair amount of tart and tangy citrus, grass/hay/vegetation, bread, sugar, some floralness, tangy dried dark fruit, earth, wood, mild sour lemon, light sweet orange, and a couple pinches of spice. The strength and taste levels start out as a notch past the medium mark, and gathers a step and half of potency after the first quarter of the experience. The nic-hit is a slot behind the overall strength. No chance of bite or harshness, and has a few rough edges. Well balanced with some complexity, it burns clean, cool, and slightly fast with a mostly consistent, deeply rich, sweet and sour, floral, spicy, nutty, smoky, savory, rugged flavor that extends to the pleasantly lingering after taste. The room note is a tad stronger. Barely leaves any dampness in the bowl, and hardly requires a relight. It’s not an all day smoke, but it is repeatable. Four stars.

-JimInks

I'm a new pipe smoker (less than 2 months) and I went to Twins smoke shop to buy some tobacco for my new pipe. I was recomended to try this Boston Tea Party blend, So I did. I was not exactly impressed with this mix, it just tastes like straight ciggarette tobacco to me, nothing to really taste or be thrilled about by an unseasoned smoker, I was expecting something that tastes like tea, but instead it reminded me of something else.