Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Burley & Bright

The lightly nutty sweet, earthy, toasty, woody burley has distracting cigarette notes as the lead component. The Virginia is a support tobacco with some tart citrus, earth, wood, some grass, light acidity, a couple of pinches of spice, and a moderate floral quality. The strength is a couple of steps past the center of mild to medium. The taste is a slot short of the medium mark. The nic-hit is a shade below the strength threshold. It burns a tad fast with a mostly consistent sweet, floral and rugged flavor that translates to the lingering after taste and room note. You won't waste any tobacco at the bottom as it is a shag cut. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires few relights. Won't bite, but has a slight harshness, and can get a little ashy in the last quarter of the experience. Can be an all day smoke.

-JimInks

This is a very lightly aromatic golden shag blend that looks and smokes somewhat like cigarette tobacco. Dominated by virginia discretely cased with vanilla, with a much smaller proportion of burely cased with cocoa. So, we got a "chocolate" thing going on here. The casing is more of a subtle aroma enhancement than flavor one. It smokes dry, with some warmth from the dominance of virginia but not to heavy to the point of biting. I did not find the flavor all that smooth, even a slight bitterness but overall pleasant enough however not all that flavorfull. I think a heavier added sweetness would smooth and improve this blend. The slight burning herbal bitter quality may be from the casings, the cocoa in paticuliar since I seem to notice a similiar quality in their Best Brown #2 which I hypothesize has a light casing of such with perhaps the addition liqorice. All in all a so so blend that can withstand improvement.

It's funny the previous reviewer likened this to cigarette tobacco. Memories of Prince Albert, albeit less chemically preserved, immediately sprang to mind upon lighting.

There is a faint irish-spring freshness in the blend along with almond-joy sans chocolate tastinuss.

I like burley - I don't mind this mixture.

Images evoked include a skeleton of a chipmunk being animated by a puppeteer's strings to an audience of lobotomized criminals.

Shag cut. Aromas of toasted butley, cocoa and vanilla. Flavors are similar if smoked slowly. The initial molasses and vanilla is very mild and enjoyable. This is a fast burning blend so proceed with caution and smoke slowly. Overall a decent blend but nothing to write home about. Can be an all day smoke

Burley and Bright is a fairly bland tobacco. Vanilla maybe, chocolate not at all. I really struggled with this blend. Saying average at best is kind. Very disappointed from Gawith Hoggarth as I usually find the blends good to great. This is just lacking in flavor. I agree with other reviews in that it is too cigarette like and that is definitely the Burley type used.

I love burley blends but was disapointed with this blend. The flavor was fairly bland but the smoking qualitys are good. If you love burley blends I say try the many C&D burley blends out there. There are too many great burley blends out there for this to be in my rotation. G&H has many other great blends out there and I would recommend trying some of their other offerings.