Tavern Tobacco Co. Laurel Flake

This review perhaps will seem "out of place" among the praises sung by others... but read more to understand. First of all let me say that I like the guys at Knoxcigar for their great service and for their excellent house tobaccos: definitely quality stuff! This Laurel Flake is, like the other offerings, a SUPERB product, made with quality and care. After only a year of aging, the flakes in the tin were luxuriously dark, leathery, moist, juicy and covered with crystals: with such dark flakes and knowing that this tobacco is made by Samuel Gawith, I expected a strong tobacco. Wrong! This is as delicate a Virginia flake as you can get! Extremely smooth, no bite and no nicotine buzz! The perique is very sparingly applied and perfectly tolerable, at times even not noticeable. After a difficult light (the flakes are dense and moist), it burns great: cool, even, and with no gurgle (which is incredible considering how moist the flakes seem). A small bowl of this can last you very long! The taste is, again, very delicate: smooth caramelized notes, a faint sweetness. Very stable throughout the bowl, too. Think of Dark Star but much more delicate and without any tonguebite. So, this is a great tobacco if you like this genre... My problem is not with the quality of the product (which is TOPS), but with my taste which is more oriented towards tastier stuff. So, this is a "Might try again" for ME, but I can say that you should try it at least once because it might just hit the spot for YOU.