Sutliff Tobacco Company Tobacco Galleria - Fox & Hound

I was given this when I joined a local pipe club as one of several introductory tobacco's - same name as my local pub so it appealed on that merit alone.

I was pleasantly surpirsed - I expected lots of artificial flavour and bite - but it smells great in the pouch and makes a good bowl for a beer time smoke.Cheap cigar like - but sometimes you just have to !

If I come across it again -- I would not be adverse to getting pouch or two - but won't be shopping hard for the one.

I bought this tobacco due to positive reviews on this site. I found this to be very strong and harsh on the throat. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but it reminded me of my Grandfather's Cutty Pipe that I "borrowed" from him as a teenager 40 years ago.

Really not my cup of tea.

Fox & Hound reminds me of two "house" blends at my local tobacconist - Staghorn and Pepe #9. Both were recommended to me as good primers for those looking to explore the world of English blends. I would give the same hearty recommendation to Fox & Hound.

I was a bit appalled when a friend lit up a bowl while we relaxed at a local coffee shop, as the room note bordered on the standard English scent that some non-smokers find unpleasant. Oddly, a young lady next to us seemed intrigued by the room note and commented on it - though another sitting not too much farther didn't seem to appreciate it as much (despite my friend's protest that we had to endure the cigarette smoke of others, I find smoking English in close quarters to be in poor form).

The taste is pleasant, though for smokers acclimated to English, it may be a bit underwhelming once one's mind starts to wander with thoughts of say, Nightcap. I enjoyed it, however, and may find it a good transistion on nights I want to stretch out on the porch and work from aromatic to Nightcap with a mild English between the two. The Latakia is pleasing here, and from time to time the Virginia shines through, but I couldn't really detect the Perique as much as I had wanted.

Overall, Fox & Hound is perfect for those looking to try English blends without leaping face-first into sterner stuff, and is a pleasing blend for those of us already in love with English.

Takes a wee bit of patience to light, but once going the taste is not unpleasant. Rather standard light english with some minor PG issues. The components are nothing special but do the trick and are fairly balanced.

Generally tame and well-behaved other than the initial lighting issues, this Fox & Hound is a reasonable---if somewhat weak---facsimile of an english blend in taste.

Local B&Ms would do well to carry this in addition to the sweet aromatics in this Tobacco Galleria line that they usually offer; I would happily reach for this before the old drugstore standards if it was available.

I agree with what has been said above...ok, but tends to reek of cheap cigar smell about half-way through. Not the worse tobacco but not the best, something to smoke when you don't have time to finish a bowl or pay attention to a quality blend.

This is by far the most natural blend in the ALTADIS sampler. In the pouch it smells like a typical English blend. Smoking shows it to be a mild tasting American/English (contains burley) blend with a fair amount of nicotine. Like the other ALTADIS blends I've tried, it is pleasant enough until you get half way through the bowl. At that point the poor quality of the base tobaccos comes through and it tastes and smells exactly like a cheap cigar (think Philly Blunt). There is definitely some kind of casing in there. If you like smoking American machine made cigars, then this blend is for you.

I have to agree with the reviewers that find this blend to be similar to Middleton's Walnut. It's a mild English that would work as an all day smoke. As with Walnut, Burley is the star of the show.

Walnut seems to have a bit more Turkish flavor, which I enjoy, and so, of the two, I'd buy Walnut before I bought Fox and Hound. So, then, only two stars.

Altadis says Fox & Hound is a medium English blend. I don?t know that I would go that far. A very light English style blend is more to the point.

This blend has just enough Latakia to show up on your radar, but not so much as to get you chased out of the room by moderately tolerant non-pipesmokers. The Perique (or as I suspect ? Perique flavoring) is mild and unobtrusive. Actually, everything in this blend is pretty mild and unobtrusive. It is a cool dry smoke, with a bit of character to it. F&H gives the smoker an overall melding of the flavors of its constituent tobaccos. It has a slightly smoky flavor that is almost sweet, but not in a sugary sort of way.

Fox & Hound doesn?t demand your full attention through either its complexity, nor any tendency to bite. Take it fishing on one of those days when you go out hoping you don?t get disturbed by anything like the fish biting. Sit and read a book with it when you want to get totally lost in the book, but want a pipe for more the feel of it than the taste. When you want to settle in and get lost in a bowl of tobacco, find something else. In this case, you will no doubt find that Fox & Hound comes up short.

When I recently ordered some of Jack?s Tobacco?s 12th Anniversary blend from the good people at Smokeshopreview.com, they kindly threw in three pouches of Altadis tobacco to sample. Two were aromatics, which I passed along to an aromatic-loving friend. I kept the third pouch, Fox & Hound, but was skeptical about it. First my tobacco snobbishness kicked in, reminding me that with the exception of Balkan Sasieni, only crappy tobacco comes in pouches. Then my Scottish roots kicked in, reminding me that it was free. So I loaded up a bowl and was happy to find that Fox & Hound is a very pleasant smoke. A light-to-medium Latakia blend with some burley and maybe some perique, it has lots of flavor and a nice sweet undercurrent.

It reminds me a lot of Finck?s Istanbul. Like Istanbul, F&H is not the kind of blend you break out in the evening for a long, slow, contemplative smoke. But it is a good, inexpensive, all-day blend. The kind of blend to smoke when you want some nice English flavor but, because you aren't really going to focus your attention on it and savor every draw, you don?t want to waste some of your favorite blend from Pease or Esoterica.

So give this a try, if you can find it; I?ve never actually seen it for sale in a store or online.