Peterson Gold Blend

This blend has got two strong points: the first is it's appearance which is just a gorgeous mix of black, golden and orange speckles. Really beautiful look. The second is its room note.

Other than that I can say just Don't Waste Your Money. Well, it's quite a quality tobacco (it's a Peterson after all). However, the casings applied feel so outright synthetic, non-natural and annoying, I see little difference with cheapo drugstore "aeromatics". Nothing like hickory and cinnamon advertised in the tin description.

Peterson in my opinion has never been really good in making aromatics. When one wants some true good aromatics it's better to go for G&H Lakelands. And go for Peterson when you want a really nice Latakia (Old Dublin), light and complex VaPer (Irish Oak), earthy Kentucky (Irish Flake) or deliciously and delicately cased VaBur (University Flake). There's little competition for Peterson in those realms. However, making aromatics is where Peterson obviously fails. That's true, Gold Blend is probably the best of all Peterson aromatics. But Peterson's aromatics are the worst tobaccos in whole Peterson's product range IMO. Just not worth the price.

YMMV but me personally didn't like this tobacco and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Being a fan of Peterson pipes and having heard good things in general about their tobaccos as well, I was looking forward to trying this blend. Unfortunately that anticipation quickly dissipated.

Opening the tin it was hard to tell if there was actually tobacco inside, or if it had been mistakenly replaced with potpourri. A very overpowering, almost perfume-like smell emerged. The tobacco was very moist, to the point where I decided to dry it out quite a bit before trying it, this thankfully also seemed to reduce the fragrance a little.

The taste was nowhere near as bad as the smell, but still nothing to write home about. The tobacco was still overpowered by the casing and the whole blend felt quite bland and artifical. I gave it quite a few more tries, but halfway through the tin I just gave up and handed it to my neighbour, who interestingly enough was very positive and thought it was quite a good tobacco.

One star is perhaps a little harsh, apart from the initial smell it's not a horrible tobacco, it's just obviously not suited for my palette. But it's a subjective review after all and the simple fact is that I just wouldn't recommend this blend to anyone, and then one star is the only fair score.

Maybe I got a bad batch, but I just didn't get this blend. I smoke a lot of Petersons, and enjoy most of their English and aromatics. This one bit like a terrier and smoked very hot. No discernible taste other than hot air.

This blend, especially since coming from Peterson, was a real disappointment to me. It also is the first blend from Peterson i sampled since their move to STG and i hope its not characteristic for the new make of the Peterson blends. But since their pipe production also reached an undescribeable low, i have not much confidence into that.

It did not offer me any pleasures whatsoever, the smell out of the tin already greeted me with an artificial, chemical note to it which carried on in the smoke. I bravely emptied the tin but was tempted more than once to toss out what i had left over. I also didn't care much for the crossover it offered to my pipes. Also it had a tendency to burn hot, although even, and overall was really unpleasant.

I really would like to write something positive as well but nothing at all comes to mind. Not even the usual scapegoats like price (too high for whats being offered) or the tin (too dull and boring). But ok, the room note was ok.

In the end i cannot recommend this blend to anyone. Even if it would have worked on me then there still would have been a dozen cheaper blends out there with the same composition, so in the end, why contemplating to hassle with it?

A little better than W. O. Larsen, but along the same lines of a sweet, candied European. Too much oil of coconut to make the blend hot and windy. Not worth the time or trouble. Too many other good things out there to enjoy, even within the Peterson family.

One of five stars

I'm not usually a fan of highly aromatic blends but, for some reason I decided to plop down some of my hard earned dollars for a tin of this stuff. Upon opening the tin I was met by the typical aromatic blast of sugary sweet cavendish that was matched to a nutty aroma, just as the label describes. I bought this blend just to see how the burley effected this aromatic. After the initial light I thought to myself, "this might be nice after all." After a few puffs I was starting to loose interest in this smoke. The initial taste on the pallet was no longer pleasent but obtrusive and overbearing. This blend is so overbearingly sweet, that not even half way through the bowl I felt like a child who had gorged himself on a mountain of cotton candy. The other draw back to this blend, and many other aromatics is the intense tounge seering that I get. I have a passion for the most robust of tobaccos and almost never experience any form of bite. My mouth and smoking style just not condusive to heavily processed and cased tobacco. I curse myself for spending money on a tin of tobacco that will surely go untouched from now on out. My opinion of this blend and other aromatics falls back on a matter of taste preferrence. Some brothers of the briar prefer aromatic, some latakia, some natural, and many other types. I just happen to shy away from anything scented cased, flavored, perfumed, etc. To each his own I say. Tobaccos of this nature just don't "float my boat."