Nording Retriever

This one is for those who favor aromatic pipe tobacco. If you don’t enjoy aromatics, you might not like this. I have mostly moved on from aromatics to smoking straight Virginias, but when the mood for an aromatic strikes me, this is a fine choice. Delightful room note, sweet flavor, burns well, little to no goop. I thoroughly enjoyed this! A perfect any-time-of-day smoke.

The tobacco does burn clean and you do get a sweet, almost banana budding (that's fermented) taste. Not really one I enjoyed much. It will stay lit well and won't goop up your pipe.

A friend asked me to smoke this blend and I agreed. I am impressed. I can't understand why this has presumably been discontinued. It deserves a place in the "best" mild aromatics of all time. Beautiful bellows of extremely smooth smoke, taste and wonderful aroma. My tin is dated 2/26/08. I treasure this sample and will keep it and smoke it until it is gone. I hope you all can grab a bowl full before it is gone from reach forever. Such a shame.

I love this stuff. It won my heart with its phenomenal taste and its resistance to bite throughout the entire smoke. A great aromatic for those of you who want a little more from your aromatics. And since I'm not much a fan of Erik Nording's pipes, this tobacco makes up for that.

Conditions: Smoked outside in a Stanwell "Horn", cold weather, early evening.

Tin: As another reviewer has mentioned, this product smells as if it is something you eat. Very sweet, candy/caramel/(honey??) smell from the tin.

Smoke: Sweet smelling but not as strong as the tin smell. Very volumous/thick smoke.

Taste: Subtley sweet, a good tobbaco taste in mouth/nose.

Personal: A very pleasurable smoke. Good combination of taste and smoke texture. I would liken smoking Retriever to drinking coffee with cream in it as opposed to skim milk. The smoke is very full and buttery.

I would appreciate any suggestions about similar products.

Nording Retriver is another one of my favorite tobaccos to smoke, I could smoke this one all day long. Even though to me the aromatic is very mild it makes for a great smoke and people are generally not offended by the aroma.

Nice strong,sweet tin aroma, just wish the taste matched. This one is much moister in the tin than I prefer and resulted in multiple relights even with varied packing techniques. I normally don't smoke aromatics but wouldn't class this as a 'light' one as per the tin label. Although it smoked cool without a hint of bite, I don't feel it's worth the premium price as compared to some drug store aromatics.

I bought this blend mistakenly for the Pointer blend of the same blender. Upon opening the tin, I was greeted by a rush of sweetness...chocolate mixed with caramel (I double checked to make sure I didn't buy a Milky Way candy bar instead). The tobacco was somewhat damp, so I let it air out for a few days before I put a match to it.

After day three of an open tin sitting out, I decided it was not going to get any drier (I now prefer drier blends) so I packed it in and lit up. The description on the tin suggests this is a light aromatic with VA/cavendish tobaccos, although right away I detected mostly cavendish...which, I can only assume nullified the few parts VA that were packaged in this tin.

The first bowlful was quite pleasant, with a flavor resembling that of a burley blend. It burned clean with almost no gurgling, and no bite. However I cannot say the same for the second. The first half of the bowl was much like the first, flavorful but mild with no gurgling or bite...the few days of drying must've worked...or so I thought. Gradually, a weak gurgle turned to a consistant gurgle, so I put it down for a bit. I fought through goop and gunk to relight about two hours on. The pleasant flavor had morphed to an ugly, sour monster. This was an A-typical, full blown aromatic.

My pilgrimage from cased aromatics to natural blends has taken a sharp detour with this one, however, I might try adding a pinch of this stuff with a straight VA blend to give it a little more kick every now and again.

Just a so-so blend for me. I really wasn't impressed by it, but YMMV. This was at the right moisture level for me to smoke right out of the tin. It smoked well and I had no problems with lighting it up or keeping it lit once a lighter is put to it. Like I say, it just wasn't my cup of tea. Recommended to give it a go no matter, it may well be what you are looking for.