G. L. Pease Blackpoint

Tin note of smoky, mild sweet fruit, and tart wine. Tobacco ribbon cut is brown with a little black and tan. Tobacco is moist but drying isn't necessary. Burns is normal with a few relights. The strength is mild to medium and nic is mild. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium and inconsistent, with notes of mild dry earth, wood, very mild sweet grass, bread, floral, sour vegetation, smoky, musty herbal, floral, mild spice notes, a lemon background note, and a spicy retro. Latakia leads, Oriental/Turkish supports, and Virginias try to support. Perique got lost on the way. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is good.

Single bitter smokey note, not a good sour oriental bitterness but a burley like bitterness like a stale cigarette. No complexity, no progression of flavor throughout the bowl. Aging bad tobacco will and in fact can not make it better. I smoked multiple bowls in different pipes, will never purchase again.

This is a refined and lively Va/Per blend. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a quality evening smoke with perique. It makes my top 5 for Pease mixtures and certainly is worthy of accolades.

Update 11/16/12: I purchased a tin of this dated 3/14/2003. At over nine years old, it was to die for. To steal a phrase from a regular on the Brothers of Briar forum, it's like "pure nectar after five years". I couldn't have said it better. Absolutely superb!

First impressions: I think the description for Charing Cross gives the exact right impression when it comes to Blackpoint. Blackpoint is somewhat lighter, and sweeter, than Charing Cross. It's firmly in the medium Balkan range. As such, it is a bit more nuanced than Charing Cross, but that said, my initial impression of Blackpoint is that I don't like it as much as Charing Cross, as it simply does not have as much flavor. That said, preferring one to another is simply a matter of taste, and I could imagine my opinions changing depending on my experiences over time. Certainly I think Blackpoint would be a superior all day smoke, where Charing Cross would overwhelm the taste buds after a couple of bowls.

This one reminds me single origin yemen mattari coffee. well blanced but still complex. spicy but sweet at the same time, kinda winey all the way and through the last third you get sugary --grape like-- sweetness on the tongue.

If I had easy acces I would stock Blackpoint along with yemen mattari.

Any blend with latakia and perique together would make me want to compare with Dunhill Nightcap. I like this much better.

If you like a heavy or rich blend with complex flavors which are both sweet and smoky, then here you have it. It is not harsh, but very smooth and rich.

This is a modern masterpiece which deserves a place amongst the classic blends. Complex and rich, it is a real treat like a 20 year old malt whisky.

The Blackpoint is the first L blend I have ever tried. I chose this blend because of the complexity of the ingredients and I assumed the more complex the better, just as my first scotch whiskey was a complex blended. By smoking it, each sip I felt a little spicy and ... empty -- the taste just faded before I would like to expect something more. I finished my tin in 2 months and I would say "goodbye" to this blend, not wish to order any more of it.

This is my nightly after work smoke to relax before bed. I absolutely love the smoky sweetness of this fantastic blend. The latakia is present at first and gradually fades away throughout the bowl as the perique gains strength...fantastic!

A deep, mellow, huge sweetness in a very complex Em. Not very good burning qualities.