Peterson Gold Blend

Well, this one is for relaxing time, slowly puff... It will never give you, or others, the feeling of cheap (and is not btw) but somehow it miss something that you feel as important...but...whatever, is good.

50g Tin

An aromatic that is as good as any that are good. Produces a sociable aroma, but beyond the casing is nothing complex underneath to describe really ;-a cake is a cake. Medium confection, room note of perhaps rich fruit cake ,tastes as it smells-glace cherries-Cherry Genoa cake. Medium burner . Ash like little charcoals,black pellets,coarse black ash."

The aroma was to my mind regardless of the tin description of honey/vanilla and walnuts.

For a third trial i decided to change pipe and use a "The Smoke","Graduate shape", a red pyrolytic graphite liner pipe from the early 70s which had a bowl liner made out of the same stuff as NASA rocket cones ,to see what the tobacco would deliver on its own with no fear of pipe burn out

Its a 2 star tobacco with me,its an OK Cavendish aromatic. I will probably not repurchase another because i feel there are other aromatics with more substantial tobacco bases with nicotine factor

UPDATE 20 MINUTES LATER AFTER WRITING THIS REVIEW:-

Its 7:15 am and my dad has just left the house for work and i have took the liberty and lit up inside the house using my "The Smoke" pipe and have to take back some of my previous statements.. The dry warm inside air has changed the tasting properties of this tobacco completely and i can now taste it properly. (The cold frosty night air on the porch with the mist probably meant i was drawing moisture condensation from the outside atmosphere which was creating steam and muting the smoke factor). I now get a mild toasty breakfasty tasting tobacco akin to a honeyed toasted waffle or a pancake.. I still stand by my 2 stars but its a better two stars. I now know why i repurchased this one. Also i am massively impressed with my pyrolytic pipe combination for this tobacco which really works and brings out and amplifies the subtle taste. I will revisit some other aromatics with my other pyro linered pipes.

a light aromatic. smells very nice in the tin and looks good. i would recommend drying it for a few hours out of the tin to get more of the honey and cinnamon out of it which is used very sparingly. do not recognize any hickory nut. if you smoke it straight out of the tin moist, it tends to burn too hot and you get very little flavor except vanilla. this stuff tends to get gooey and wet even if you air it to bone dry. this is the type of aromatic that you don't really taste the flavor you can just smell it if you blow through your nose. i like gold blend, it will be a nice change of pace during the holiday season to have a bowl every now and then. i do wish it had a little more honey and cinnamon flavors.

I liken this blend to Peterson's De Luxe Mixture. Both blends share a combination of the vanilla and nutty flavors, but Gold Blend has cinnamon instead of honey. The cinnamon, like De Luxe's honey, was just put in to add a little something to the blend, it's not really concentrated. The main flavors were the hickory nut and vanilla. Gold Blend didn't seem as quite of a "holiday blend" to me since the hickory nut wasn't nearly as Christmasy as the walnut used in De Luxe Mixture. Overall it's a great blend. It burns well and tastes great. A good smoke any time of the year.

This is ok...

Not my favourite Peterson aro. I didn't quite take to the cinnamon if I'm honest. It smokes like De Luxe Blend by the same firm, but with added cinnamon.

I like DB, as it's a nice mild aro that suits my needs when required. The quality of tobacco in both blends is very good.

I just haven't taken to Gold Blend as much as I thought I would. The cinnamon just adds heaps to the toastiness you get from most aro's as you get towards the end of the bowl..

As such it put me off a bit. Not a bad tobacco. I'll take my cinnamon in bagel, bread, cinna-bon, cookie (biscuit to us brits) and cereal format.... ..... just not in my tobacco.

But thanks for the offer anyway.

This is the blend that got me into pipe smoking and as a sentimental favorite I'm giving it four (4) tasty stars.

I decided to try pipe smoking after ten years of enjoying premium cigars and started out with a Peterson pipe and a tin of Gold Blend. That was in December of 2008. I resolved not to write a review of Gold Blend until I was more experienced. So here I am a year later, somewhat more experienced, smoking a new tin of GB after trying aromatics, vapers and English/Oriental blends. The engliish/orientals are my favorite.

Gold blend is a classic quality aromatic that manages to be sweet and mellow without being heavy on the vanilla. The smell in the tin is delicious. The smoke taste is more complex than standard vanilla aros. Cavendish on the bottom. The room note is very nice. Both the room note and taste are sweet without being perfumy.

This is a nice mellow aromatic for when you want a sweet smoke and you want something different than staright vanillas. Personally, I like strong English blends in the morning and a nice aro every now and then in the evening.

Smoke on Brothers of the Pipe!

I have still some aromatics in stand-by after I started with MacB's Black Ambrosia on Apr22/2009.

Golden Blend - no. 3 in that list - was waiting unsealed since. I had just a couple of bowls or bit more just after the purchase.

GB (golden yellow lid) has a beautiful contrasted colour similarf to an EM. The tin smells aromatic, of course, in the vein of the Danish Pastry (vanilla, nuts and a bit of cinnamon). At the touch I feel high quality leaves.

The smoke is mild both in strenght and body. The resemblance to Golden Ambrosia is remarkable, GB is just two notches more flavoured. GB smokes very smooth, cool and velvety (same 9mm filtered Savinelli Spigot). No bite at all. The flavouring is consistent - difficult to trace true tobacco taste, as it happended with GA instead - but not overwhelming or cloying.

GB is truly a quality aromatic, which I could recommend ***. The fact is that I don't see any good reason to pay all those euros. GA perfectly fits the bill when I'm in the mood for an aro.

Probably a very good everyday smoke. I've gotten more compliments over the aroma than anything else I've lit up.

After almost two tins I've given up trying to pick out the flavors.

It's damp,dry it. Burns warmer than most of my choices and has bit me more than I like to admit. Seems to lose the sweet flavor twards the end of the bowl

I didn't lose interest in the smoke, I just have aro's I enjoy more.

It continues...

A well balanced aromatic. Mild sweet taste with no bite. Good packing and burning properties. Even people loathing aromatics could savor it. Well done Peterson!