A & C Petersen Caledonian Melange No.10 Highland Cream

One of the rare Caledonian offerings still available with 421. This mixture is IMMENSELY cased with Irish cream. Despite being a top quality tobacco it remains too cased for my liking.

I have liked this offering less than the other Caledonian varieties.

The casing was too much for my liking and it bit.

Yet another tobacco with a British title that isn't available in Britain. It's daft, it really is.

A very pleasant tin fragrance, but nothing outstanding. It's a well pressed, soft and moist Danish. With this tobacco-addled tongue I can only detect a little of of the 'Scottish highland cream whiskey' at the outset. The rest of this blend is just typical Danish really and if you don't care for Danish concoctions then you won't like this either.

I can't see anything much that sets it apart from the others of this type. At just over 10 euros this is certainly good value for a blend you can smoke all day week in week out, although that would get boring eventually.

I'd liken this to the better quality Danish blends, particularly Davidoff (here we go again). Thic could pass as any of their more expensive mixtures - Red or Green, without being too sickly like some of Larson's best.

Not one to purchase time and again, a middle range Danish blend.

Melange number 10 eh ? Wonder what numbers 2 to 9 taste like ?

my first tin tobacco i smoked.its creamy rich and very god

Highland Cream is a smooth, mild, aromatic blend, very much in the Danish tradition. There's quality leaf here, and the aroma is creamy, deep, sweet in a milky-chocolate sort of way, more similar to Bailey's (the liquor) than to other blends cased with Scotch (i.e.: A&C Peterson's own Highland MALT, with which Highland CREAM should not be confused, Radford's Old Scotch or Davidoff`'s Scottish Mixture).

I believe it is a mild smoke, but the density of the casing gives the impression of a fuller strength (that is, a medium smoke). It is not cloying or sticky. Room aroma is pretty nice, homey. There's really not much in the way of excitement, nor does it induce a deep, contemplative smoke. I find more the kind of smoke others enjoy, a "conversational" tobacco if you will.

As to the above description, I think they got it confused with another blend from the same company: Premier Crú. Similar to Caledonian Green, but less sweet and slightly more potent, Premier Crú does present the classic English tobacco composition of Virginia, very tamed Latakia and Orientals, and a dash of Périque.

So, don't be misled. Highland Cream is NOT an English style tobacco, and it's NO alternative to Dunhill's EMP. But if you are looking for a creamy, slow burning aromatic, this might just be the ticket.

Caledonian Highland cream is definitely a nice tobacco, good quality, but I found that the casing was a bit too overwhelming, thus making it hard to taste the tobacco itself.

it sure smelled good in the tin, but it was a bit hard to lit up and tokeep lit; and because of that, it would overheat a bit and start the tongue bite attack before reaching mid-bowl.

Definitively recommended for those who like a good quality tobacco thatis fairly cased.

I f you do not like fairly cased bakkies, I wouldn't recommend it.

Here's a tobacco that I'd thought about purchasing many times, but was always discouraged by what I thought would end up being an overpowering aromatic flavor..Not so at all. Upon opening the can and removing the a.c.petersen paper disc thing, I promptly stuck my finger into the stuff to get a feel of it. It is soft and delicate, but not delicate to a point of fragility. The tin aroma is really entrancing; you can smell the sugary goodness of the aged virginias, along with, but not overwhelmed by, the topper of the cream whiskey. The tobacco packs well, although it gets a few "tricky" points for being a longer-cut tobacco so the ribbons of leaf are a little tougher to get into the bowl, but no REAL big deal. Being an aromatic blend, the moisture content is pretty high in this one, but not too horrible. However, its quite difficult to get a good char going, and it'll take a couple of minutes after taht to get the good smoldering effect. However, as soon as the tobacco is properly lit, the flavor really comes into its own. This, being a virginia based tobacco, gives me a horrible sense of bite no matter how slowly I smoke, however, the flavor is so deep and rich that I could not resist finishing up the bowl. Like many rich-topped tobacs, the flavor is pretty much one-dimensional and straightforward through the entire bowl, but this is by no means a bad thing! In closing, if you are a fan of aromatics, or are looking for one that has fine tobaccos along with a delicious topper, look no further!