Peter Stokkebye Cube Cut (PS41)

This blend was to me just as described. A full burley and virginia blend with a cavendish sweetness. I got a light bite but I took that as I smoke fast. I had no trouble with it burning but I also thaught ahead and smoked it in my savinelli which has the largest bowl of all my pipes. All and all a good blend with a nice flavor.

I like Va/Burley blends and this is a good one. Some here detect a topping but I do not. Just tastes like food straightforward tobacco flavor. The cube cut is fun to play with and is probably the easiest loading tobacco I have tried. It is a little tough to get going not unlike trying to start a coal fire. Once it gets going it needs little attention other than maybe a tamp. I use a triple jet lighter with this and it gets it stoked very quickly. One thing that I have noticed that maybe helpful is after I put a pipe of this down part way through the smoke and come back to it latter the Burleys start exhibiting a nice butteriness. So the old DGT will work well here. Pleasant, with a good bit of strength, no bite and it is absolutely dirt cheap I will be keeping this one in stock. I am really enjoying Stokkebye's blends.I have three of them in my regular rotation and I haven't even tried any of his Luxury Blends yet. Much better than anything MacBaren makes.

Peter Stokkebye Cube Cut is a light aromatic that I’m sure will please smokers who want something clean, simple and fragrant that smells and tastes like a boutique muffin. True to its name, the tobacco is cube cut, medium red and light brown to golden in color. Bag note is bran muffin, with orange and vanillin added. I gravity load CC and there is no boil as it is eventually lit. I get mostly lightly toasted Burley/nuts, like Grape Nuts, with very little dry meadow grass and dark fruit leather from the specially-cured, red VA. The vanillin is quite noticeable from top to bottom, and it stays slightly forward of the tobacco, but just. Strength is mild. Tastes are mild. Room note is very pleasant. Aftertaste is the best of the smoke, unless one smokes it in a large bowl, in which case there is burned vanillin in the end.

As for a rating, I have to say, I imagine that PSCC might just be a 4 in relation to others of its ilk, which is to say, very light aros. However, since I don’t smoke this sort of tobacco often enough to really draw a bead on it, I can only go so far as a 3, recommended as-is to anyone who thinks it sounds good.

I have found Stokkebye’s Cube Cut Burley to be a very tasty blend of (mostly) burley and Virginia tobaccos which have been pressed together in layers for a time, then sliced, and then diced (cutting across the slices) to form nice little cubes. It’s basically minced tobacco, and it is an uncommon cut to find these days. As noted in other reviews, just gravity-feed the cubes into your bowl and very gently tamp. Leave some space at the top of the bowl as the cubes expand considerably upon lighting. This tobacco seemed at about the right moisture level and it was easy to light and to keep lit. It burned nicely to the bottom of the bowl. There was lots of nutty burley flavor with the Virginia providing a touch of sweetness. This blend is fairly similar to Carter Hall, Prince Albert, Chatham Manor and the like, except it seemed a bit more robust to me. Lots of burley flavor, not too much nicotine, and still mild enough to be an all day smoke for me. And all at a very good price. If you like burley-based blends, you’ll like this. I highly recommend it!

Been enjoying this blend for a while now. Scoop it up, don't need to pack. Light it and you're good to go. Sweet Burley that is cool smoking no bite. Good to smoke any time.

This a very tasty blend,who ever came up with blended burley and virginia knew his or her tobacco.

The order came just a little moist ,so dry time is need for me. I took th advice of several posters and used gravity fill bowl. What I don't have is a tall skinny bowl, so I use a Sasieni Dublin works like a charm. The burley will bite,just a bit but the Virginias are sweet and grassy, burley are are nutty and earthy.

Takes a little skill to keep lit, but what is a few cents of lighter fluid compared to the taste and relaxation this blend render's? Well worth the money and then some, satisfy the codger in you if you have just a taste for burley . Enjoy.

This tobacco is tasty in my ancient Dr. Grabow Duke briar aged a few months. I get a sweeter result from a full bowl of a Mark Twain cob. However, in my Savenelli Roma and my old Paronelli the taste is not as sweet. Excellent room note according to my wife and it usually smells and tastes like sweet toast. I am currently aging a pound of this tobacco.

PS Cube Cut was another of my stops to find a replacement for Sir Walter Raleigh. This is a straight cube cut, whereas SWR is a mixture of cube and crushed plug (or, at least, some loose non-cube tobacco).

I have had nothing but trouble with this from the get-go. Hard to light and get going, I have (as suggested below) tried "toasting" the top, rubbing some of it out and placing the result on top, and topping the bowl of Cube Cut with some other ribbon cut tobacco. I have gravity packed, tightly packed, packed, unpacked and repacked. Nothing has worked consistently. I always end up with either a bowl in perpetual need of relighting or scorching my tongue. Now, when I look at this mixture I have visual flashbacks of the album cover from Frank Zappa's "Weasels Ripped My Flesh".

I used to think SWR was bad about jumping out of the bowl, but Cube Cut has it beaten by a mile. The few times I have gotten Cube Cut going moderately well have convinced me that not only is it no replacement for SWR, but that it isn't for me.

Somewhat recommended. I'm sure, based on previous reviews, that some will find it pleasant. I'll use what's left of my stash for blending.

Pretty disappointed with this one.

It was slow burning but difficult to keep alight. Nothing special in the taste department. Slight hint of hops at the start and later, imaginings of bourbon whiskey...but they were very faint and distant impressions. What I got mainly was sweetness and tongue bite.