Sutliff Tobacco Company Count Pulaski

I really have no idea why I bought this blend. I was looking through the descriptions of various blends and this sounded interesting so I thought three ounces should give me a proper taste so I could judge the smoke fairly. After just one ounce I believe I have made up my mind. This tobacco blend is a keeper and one I will purchase more in the future. This blend is complex and is not easily described by me. I do not have the taste buds of some who can describe the various flavors as a professional wine taster describes various fine wine vintages. All I can honestly do is say whether this smoke to my liking. It is very much so! It has a pleasant sweetness and the casings are just right to impart a very great smell from the pouch. The smoke is cool and long. It was ready to smoke with no preparation other than filling your pipe bowl and lighting. I usually require several relights as it burns down, but that is no big deal for me. It does not bite the tongue and I believe this could be an all day smoke. In the past I have had some unpleasant experiences with some of the other Sutliff blends, but of late I have found a few to be very enjoyable. Count Pulaski is one of those enjoyable blends. The Count will be accompanying me to Alaska in about a month because I feel he will be very good company in a cooler clime.

While I'd give this blend an A for effort, I'd only give it a C minus for execution. There are just too many other blends out there that rely less on humectants, and use a higher quality leaf in the same price range to make this a viable choice for me.

Greetings. WOW this mixture is something else. As a smoker of English blends during cold winter months, I find this tobacco to be sublime!!! Smoking this in a vintage Savenneli, large bowl, and shank bored out to a full 5/16 inch as recommended by the renouned pipe maker Lars Iverson. (this method of alowing the pipe to breathh properly, has created perfectly behaved pipes and the tobacco flavor really comes forth. Give this a try on a poor smoking pipe! It will virtually elimanate tongue bite). Filling the pipe, I love the feel of this weed in my fingers as i rub it gently as I fill. Leathery, not overly moist. The cut having large pieces to play with, and an aray of colors. The aroma teasing the scences. The charring light tells of what is to come. Fired up and underway. The taste of the anise is a wonderful touch and adds to its charactor and blend of the diffrent tobaccos...virgina, burly, latkia.....Midbowl..The Count has settled in for a long and wonderful smoke. Consistant. No relighting. End of bowl, the flavor remaining unchanged, a very nice clean burn, no wetness or goop. All I can say is that, this is my favorite mixture, and goes very well with a strong cup of good columbian coffee. Sadly I have never had the pleasure of smoking Balken Sobranie. I can only imagine.. very, very, highly recommended!!!!!!!!

Altadis tobaccos are not my bag, in general, unless you count the old Gauloise cigarettes, which in their own round about way lead me to pipe smoking in the first place, but I digress...

Count Pulaski is my bag (quite literally since it's only available in bulk). This stuff is amazing. Latakia and Anise flavoring??? That combination, to me, might just be the closest thing to manna I can think of, despite the fact that my wife will not let me kiss her once I've had either. Although not a fan of aromatics in general, with the exception of Lane's HGL and Peterson's Sunset Breeze, this stuff has become one of my favorites. The room note alone is quite possibly the best I've ever experienced. And oddly enough, though I am frequently indifferent to burley, it lends a delicious nuttiness to the sweet anise flavoring and the rich smoky latakia.

I will soon lobby my local B&M to pick this one up, as it has quickly become a favorite.

Everyone's opinions differ, but the majority rules with this exquisite blend from Altadis. I hadn't visited this one for some time but had the time to load up a bowl again this weekend while camping. What a mistake to have been away that long! I can echo all the superlatives already mentioned...this is a quality blend with rich, full flavor. Absolutely recommended.

The Count is a sweet smelling English blend bastardized by the Americans. I opened this immediately on arrival, but I cannot detect a pouch note of rum nor anise.

Quite an array of sizes in the pouch. Some thick, wide chunks, some skinny ribbon, some cubes, and some tiny flecks. It doesn't hinder the packing though! The tobacco comes a bit moist, actually enough to form a ball when pinched together.

Initial lighting is an east task. The light, tamp, light routine. You're off to the races.

This blend is very well put together. Balanced, slightly complex, and perfect all day smoke. While I do not detect actual anise flavoring, there is a sweetness which I assume is coming from the rum that I thoroughly enjoy. The brown sugar and nuttiness from the burleys really shine when smoked slowly. No harsh dry spots that can come from a young burley, and absolutely zero tongue bite.

I went through a long stage of trying as many sweetened English blends as I could find. I'm not sure how this one escaped the roster. This has been a great morning smoke with black coffee on my morning commute the past week. Great value as well. With such high quality leaf and toppings used, we are talking a mere 26.00 for a pound! This 2 Oz went quick. Definitely going to order a pound soon!

Sutliff Tobacco Co. - Count Pulaski.

A strange one this, nicely blended tobaccos, yet the toppings are just enough to divest and remove the pleasure; to me!

The unlit blend includes some very coarse, leafy, pieces. It smells of a rum, anisette, flavoured English. My pouch had perfect moistness.

Upon my first puffs the anisette and rum were evident. However, I get a bitter, alcoholic, sharpness from the rum, not a sweet, fragrant, rummy character. The caustic anisette completes the 'harshness', thusly, subconrading the tobaccos and lowering the rating. The tobaccos taste decent; it isn't a Lat-Bomb, but more of a Latakia seasoned VaBur. I don't find the burn a problem, I rarely need to tamp/maintain it. Tongue bite doesn't happen.

Nicotine: medium. Room-note: not good.

Count Pulaski? Because the tobaccos are nicely blended they rescue it, a little. Two stars:

Somewhat recommended.

One of my go-to tobaccos. In my opinion it has a hint of berry and rum aroma when you open the packaging. When smoking, it's got a nice woodsy taste as well.

Sorry fellas, I'm new to English blends and Latakia... Initially, I was put off by the pungent aroma of, dare I say, damp wood fire. The aroma, for me, was near my limits of acceptability. I let it breath a little and tackled it in the morning.

I had a single bowl and found it to be a surprisingly pleasant smoke. Considering the intensity, before smoking, I found it to have a mild to medium flavor. I caught notes of very light anise and rum, leather, and mild camp fire. All in all, I thought it was an interesting and mild experience, different than expected. I would have to recommend at least a few bowls to get used to it. Worst case, it was a novel experience.