Peterson Gold Blend

Petersons Gold Blend. On morning of Friday, 1/31/20 I tried Petersons Gold blend for the first time. I had purchased this tin in Feb of 2019. I found the moisture content on this tin to be normal. The Tin Note was a slightly sweet or honey aroma. . Taking a dry unlit draw (Which I like to do) on a packed Comoy's Prince-Bent Pebble Grain (337PG) which had never been smoked I got the same light sweet/honey flavor mentioned for the tin note. The initial/char light was easy but it did take several relights with light tamping before I could get a good ember going. I found this blend to be an easy cool burning smoke with little to no tongue bite and no gurgle from excessive moisture. It required few relights after the ember was established. The flavor was mildly sweet with no noticeable topping and the flavor increased about ¼ to ½ way through the bowl. As to room note, I was the only person in the room at the time of the smoke. I did get up and leave the room and upon re-entering the room I found the room note to be pleasant. I was drinking cold water and later a diet Mt. Dew at the time of the smoke. Over all I would give this blend a 2 out of 4 stars for my taste. It was not an unpleasant experience however it lacked in flavor for my taste.

This Peterson Gold blend aromatic, like most of the aromatics I've enjoyed in the past, smells delicious but unfortunately does deliver in the taste department when smoked. I find it to be a little thin for want of a better word, and as with some of the other Peterson aromatics has to be smoked slowly to ensure that your not bitten back. I guess I suffered the tongue bite due to wanting to get the full taste like the scent and rushed it at first!

Needs to be dried or aired a little before smoking as its very moist when new. The room note is pleasant but heavy.

Please I've tried it,and I have left it year before smoking again before this review, but won't be buying another tin.

I guess these type of aromatics don't suit me, but still a quality tobacco.

This is another stop on my Peterson parade of tobaccos. Like a lot of the aromatics in Peterson's repertoire, it really does nothing to hit me in the right spot. Maybe its because I have found other blends that seem to me to be far superior to these here. I find nothing really wrong with this blend, just that it does nothing for me, as I say. YMMv, of course. I will recommend that you give it a try, it may be just what you are looking for. Smoke away, lads and lasses.

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.

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.

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.

This blend had me vexed. It is a very strong aromatic much like Blue Note, although a little lighter. It is also very obviously made with quality leaf. The problem I had is that it bites like a rabid ferret! The taste is wonderful- but that just gets me to smoking faster and getting bit that much worse. Smoking slower didn't help much either. Drying out and DGT were also useless. I finally had to give the rest of the can to a friend who ended up having the same problem. The blending in the can was also very inconsistent. There were all sizes of cuts involved and even a ball of paste I can only hope was casing! All in all a tasty tobacco that I just couldn't handle. (And I regularly smoke red VA flakes!!!) Stick with the pricier Blue Note- It's worth it!!!

Fragrant burley? Mmmmm....?

Whenever I read "black cavendish" my eyes glaze over; whenever the flavour of this processed leaf predominates, I fall right down to sleep. This is the mildest, lightest aromatic excuse for wasting a match.

The hickory nut, a Dixie cousin of the Tonka bean, more usually seen hereabouts as a flavouring agent for basse cuisine cheeses and meats, gives this concoction a cute smell when you burn it, but you cant't rally taste it. Ditto the cinnamon.

For fanciers of the lightest aromatics.

I remeber enjoying this blend maybe something like last year. I have try it tonight and the experience wasn't exactly the same. On this more recent smoke I have taste a non-well balance aroma.

I have to tell you that the tobacco wasnt so fresh so I had to humidified it a little bit before I could pack my pipe with it.

The smell of the tobacco in the can was ok, but I was sad that this taste didn't reflect in the smoke. However I still think it's a good blend when You have nothing else near You.