Dan Tobacco Tordenskjold Virginia Slices

(3.02)
A full bodied, golden flake from the best Virginia grades and Louisiana perique. This tobacco gives you a very smooth smoking pleasure with the naturally smooth taste, which the friends of an excellent flakes appreciate it so much.

Details

Brand Dan Tobacco
Blended By Dan Tobacco
Manufactured By Dan Tobacco
Blend Type Virginia/Perique
Contents Perique, Virginia
Flavoring
Cut Flake
Packaging 50 grams tin
Country Germany
Production Currently available

Profile

Strength
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild to Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

3.02 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 05, 2010 Mild to Medium Mild Medium to Full Tolerable
Pretty unremarkable. I got an oz of this out of the jar from my local b/m. The jar note was nice and sweet, but the taste and room note were very plain, reminding me of cigarettes.

Hopefully in the future, I can get a tin of this, cellar it for a few years and maybe that would give it some more character.

Maybe part of the issue is that I keep hoping to find something like MacClelland Virginia #27 in flake form, and just don't seem to be able to find it.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 04, 2009 Mild to Medium Extremely Mild Mild to Medium Pleasant
Good. Just kind of generic. I didn't get any interesting overtones or undertones from it. Perique? Where? Anyway, I smoked it all and was not sorry I bought it. I would buy it again if it were on clearance.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Nov 06, 2008 Medium None Detected Overwhelming Tolerable
Not sure why, but this is the first tobacco I could not get along with. Tried it three times and each time I ended up with tongue bite so bad I had to stop smoking for two days. Something about this just does not work for me. I'll stick to Davidoff Flake Medallions.

My experience with this tobacco has been so different from most, I wonder if I got a bad tin. The tobacco in my tin is a lovely golden brown with some darker bits. The tin note is a slightly sweet very nice natural aroma. It smells like standing in a field of sun dappled tobacco on a warm sunny day. I have found though that my tongue can only tolerate this in a filtered Vauen pipe. When I smoke it in that pipe, it tastes like the tin note with an occassional sweet, almost flowery taste. Actually pretty good. I taste no Perique at all. In an unfiltered pipe my tongue feels like I backed over it with my SUV.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 11, 2006 Medium None Detected Medium to Full Pleasant
I am on my second pipeful of Virginia slices and enjoying the second more than the first. Virginia Slices is good, but not complex. I don't detect much Perique, which is a flaw only if you expecting it. Like any flake, it must be rubbed out some to make it smokeable. I am not very particular, so I just grab a fair size pinch from the tim, roll it around between my hands a bit, and stuff the resulting ball of tobacco into my pipe. I waste several matches and tamps to get an even burn, but no big deal. Nothing to it, although purists will probably cringe. Overall, Virginia Slices is good tobacco, possibly a staple in my rotation. The aroma and flavor are not intense, but there is an underlying complexity and richness that is fetching indeed. I paid $12.50 for 50 grams in San Francisco, which seems a bit pricy for a basic tobacco, but tobacco prices are everywhere these days.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
May 13, 2024 Mild Very Mild Mild Very Pleasant
Torden Virginia

The flakes are quite large, light brown / golden coloured, neatly cut but stacked slightly untidily in the tin. Moisture content is ideal: pretty dry, much drier than the British tradition for flakes.

The aroma in the newly opened tin was pungent: apricot jam. My impression was that it had a fairly punchy casing or topping applied, but with barely any airing (in fact, just a few times opening and closing the tin) this has largely dissipated and the aroma is predominantly of hay, horse food and more of a dried apricot aroma behind this. I'm now wondering if it was topped at all or if I dreamt it!

The flavour is of bright Virginias: hay, bread, a little citrus. There's a hint of dried fruit in there but it tastes entirely natural, this isn't an aromatic. People have commented favourably on the aroma though!

Like all bright Virginias it responds well to "breath smoking", giving its best flavours when tickled along gently. I've not suffered bite with it, it probably could if provoked. If rubbed out gently leaving plenty of large pieces, it stays lit very well and I've had hour and a half smokes with it. It does leave a little plug of dottle.

In summary, a very nice flake for a hot summers day, I've been enjoying it greatly during this heatwave! One final question - does it contain Perique? I hadn't considered it until I had written the above review: I hadn't detected any and took it to be a straight Virginia. If it does, it's even more restrained than in Orlik Golden Sliced, and I've been smoking it in my Virginia pipes.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 06, 2023 Mild to Medium Medium Mild Tolerable
One of worst tobaccos that i have ever smoked.

It smells like rotten lemon and Ammonia based chemicals and gives a headache.

I gave it six month for aging but it got even worse and have throne it in trash can .
Pipe Used: Peterson - Stanwell - B&B
Age When Smoked: Fresh
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 15, 2023 Mild to Medium Extremely Mild Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
The VAs are very hay-like, the Perique is more noticeable in the tin-note than in the smoke. The flakes fall apart easily into strands, and it smokes nicely, just on the slow-side. There is a hint of something between dark fruit and fig, which may be a v mild topping or the Perique. A nice smoke on a warm day.
Pipe Used: cobs and briars
PurchasedFrom: 4 Noggins
Age When Smoked: 5 years
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