Samuel Gawith Chocolate Flake
(3.01)
The first of a collection dedicated to Samuel Gawith 1st, Chocolate Flake is a luxury blend of Virginias, burley and long-leaf latakias. To complete the luxury a rich, dark chocolate has been added after cutting. Excellent smoking qualities with good smoke and a delicious room note. Medium strength.
Notes: Due to EU regulations this is now called "CH Flake" (formerly CF Flake) in Europe.
Details
| Brand | Samuel Gawith |
| Series | Kendal Mayor's Collection |
| Blended By | Samuel Gawith |
| Manufactured By | Samuel Gawith |
| Blend Type | Virginia Based |
| Contents | Burley, Latakia, Virginia |
| Flavoring | Cocoa / Chocolate |
| Cut | Flake |
| Packaging | 50 grams tin, bulk |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Mild
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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3.01 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 61 - 63 of 63 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 20, 2006 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Tolerable |
The tin aroma is akin to opening a tin of Hershey's Cocoa powder. At first puff, the smoker is greeted with a cocoa or baker's chocolate flavor. The latakia is subdued. This continues through until the bottom third of the bowl, where a fuller tobacco experience finally emerges. If you're attracted to cocoa, you'll likely enjoy this pipe-weed. While there is a dry sweetness, I do not find it cloying. You'll find a typical VA bite to Chocolate Flake, so smoke accordingly. I find the blend a bit unrefined, but enjoy it from time to time.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Apr 05, 2006 | Medium | Very Mild | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
This is different from Bob's Chocolate Flake, which is Gawith's collaborative effort with Hogarth. CF is a deep, dark, lovely flake with hints of speckled birdseye. The chocolate is hardly detectable in the tin. I think the chocolate moniker might be referring to the color & texture of the flake rather than the amount of cocoa bean in the blend. There appears to be some sort of stoving process here. Try it if there's an open tin or jar, but don't go out of your way for it. Like other Gawith blends I've tried, I suppose it has to fit your particular taste. The few that I've sampled don't do a thing for me. This is smoke in a bowl as far as I'm concerned. Nothing memorable or earthshaking about this, though nothing offensive either. Again, it might be that I am getting to the point that there are only so many blends one can try & ultimately stick with. It's like smelling 100 perfumes at the retail counter. They all smell the same after awhile. For a deep, dark, chocolaty flake with subtle complexity, try the superior McClelland Dark Star instead.
Two of five stars
update - april 5, 2006
I apologize to Gawith Chocolate Flake. Perhaps my tastes have changed since the last time. Or maybe some of the blends I once loved have been slipping in quality - Strathspey, for one. In any case, this really is a fine, subtle blend. It smokes cool, has just the characteristic sonorities of Virginia and Latakia, neither of which overpower the other. The chocolate provides a comfortable, inconspicuous sweet element. The burn is slow, patient and definitely English. I decided to turn to Gawith again after reading a very nice article about that blending house in a past issue of the venerable 'Pipes & Tobaccos' Magazine. Now with greater respect for the blending house, its history and people, I have graduated to an appreciation for the finer things in tobacciana. I'm proud to add GCF to the honor roll of fine tobac. This is now a regular.
Four and a half of five stars
Two of five stars
update - april 5, 2006
I apologize to Gawith Chocolate Flake. Perhaps my tastes have changed since the last time. Or maybe some of the blends I once loved have been slipping in quality - Strathspey, for one. In any case, this really is a fine, subtle blend. It smokes cool, has just the characteristic sonorities of Virginia and Latakia, neither of which overpower the other. The chocolate provides a comfortable, inconspicuous sweet element. The burn is slow, patient and definitely English. I decided to turn to Gawith again after reading a very nice article about that blending house in a past issue of the venerable 'Pipes & Tobaccos' Magazine. Now with greater respect for the blending house, its history and people, I have graduated to an appreciation for the finer things in tobacciana. I'm proud to add GCF to the honor roll of fine tobac. This is now a regular.
Four and a half of five stars
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Sep 09, 2005 | Medium | Mild | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
This actually tastes more like chocolate and has less floral elements than GH's Bob's Chocolate Flake, though it also has a little less character and I find it somewhat bland.
The blend creates nice flavors that are consistent throughout the bowl, and has a nice unoffensive room note, yet lacks anything really memorable to encourage me to come back to it very often. But it is even-keeled and smooth, and worth a try if you like the lake flakes.
The blend creates nice flavors that are consistent throughout the bowl, and has a nice unoffensive room note, yet lacks anything really memorable to encourage me to come back to it very often. But it is even-keeled and smooth, and worth a try if you like the lake flakes.
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