Wilke Pipe Tobacco Smoky Sweet Chocolate

The creamy, sugary black cavendish is the lead component by its percentage in the mix, though it is a supporting player. The smoky, woody, earthy, floral, lightly herbal, spicy Cyprian Latakia is one of the most obvious leads. The chocolate topped white burley provides some nuts, earth, wood, and bread and is a tad less important than the Latakia. The perique offers some pepper, earth, wood, plums, and raisins. It’s a couple of steps above the condiment line. The red and bright Virginias produce a little tangy dark fruit, earth, wood, tart citrus, grass, bread, sugar, very light sour lemon and floralness as a condiment. The strength, nic-hit, and taste are a couple of notches past the center of mild to medium. No chance of bite or harshness, and barely has any rough edges. Well balanced with some nuance, it burns cool and clean at a moderate pace with a mostly consistent sweet, smoky, mildly spicy, nutty, floral flavor that extends to the pleasantly lingering after taste. The room note is pleasant to tolerable. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires an average number of relights. Can be an all day smoke. Three and a half stars.

-JimInks