Missouri Meerschaum Party Line

The matured burley provides a lot of earth, wood, nuts, bread, mild sugar, along with light molasses, cocoa, and sour sharpness. It takes a small lead most of the time. The St. James perique offers a fair amount of earth, wood, spice, dried tart plum, figs, mild floralness, and a touch of mesquite as a very competitive supporting player. The sugary sweet stoved cavendish is a couple of rungs above the condiment line. The aspects of the tart malty peaty scotch topping are earth, wood, smoke, vegetation, mild sourness, a little leather, sweetness and spice with a couple of floral notes. A hint of cocoa is in the background. The toppings moderately tone down the tobaccos. The strength is a step past the medium mark. The taste is a slot past that. The nic-hit is medium. No chance of bite or harshness exists here. The rough edges are minor. This soft crumble cake easily breaks apart, and needs no dry time. There is a very mild inconsistency in the effect of the varietals which is typical for crumble cakes. Deeply rich with some nuance, it burns cool, clean, and slightly slow with a very malty, peaty, nutty, spicy, tartly sweet, mildly floral, smoky, lightly sour 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 for the veteran aro smoker, and easily repeatable under any circumstance. Three and a half stars.

-JimInks