Peter Stokkebye Cube Cut (PS41)

Sour upon first lighting. Mellow burley nutty flavor coupled with Virgina sweetness. Slight grass and hay notes. Has a mild topping of some sort. Reminds me if sir Walter Raleigh however much better quality. Would rate at two and a half stars. Good for building a cake I a new pipe. Easy to load and smokes slowly. NO tongue bite.

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Edit 5-13-2020. Moving it up to 2.5 stars

PS Cube Cut is a tobacco that left me feeling like something was missing. The predominant (and really only) flavor comes from the burley, with the Virginia and cavendish adding nothing really detectable to the experience. I like burley well enough but I felt as though this tobacco should have had a slightly more complex flavor.

The cube cut is novel and packs easily, but it is a pain to light for the first time and it requires a few relights during the smoke. I did not experience any issues with the lit cubes jumping/falling out of my pipe. YMMV, of course, but this is just not a tobacco I see myself revisiting.

This is an unusual burley blend because the tobacco is cut into little cubes. When smoking this blend you have to be careful not to knock your pipe cause the little guys like to jump out. The burley gives a nice nutty flavor and the molasses topping is pleasant. It requires a slight drying time otherwise expect several relights. Smoke this blend slowly cause the Virginias can bite if your not careful.

I would really like this stuff on its own if it were easier to smoke by itself. As it is, I find it a superb blending tobacco. Mixed with an equal part of good black cav the result is great tasting, cool burning, good smelling stuff.

This is a nice change of pace from my usual traditional English blends. I smoked mine in a large meer and had no problem with it burning hot as a lot of burleys do. A very pleasant and distinctive taste to me. Burns really slow. I had no trouble keeping lit as some reviewers have mentioned. I am continually impressed with the PS line.

Very good but a little bitter at the end. Satisfying in a Peretti way. 3 stars

Good cube cut, is almost similar in taste to the Luxury Twist Flake, but this has no hint of spice. He instead has an excellent sweetness with an aftertaste of hazelnut, smoke really well, leaves a good feeling on the whole! I would recommend this to anyone who is a lover of this type of blends. In a small pipe .......is better!

This is a most enjoyable smoke, and I have found it easier to light and keep burning than many reviews had led me to believe. Sipped slowly, this blend yields a lovely nutty, sweet burley smoke with a little muscular structure from the VA. More aggressive puffing brings the astringency and edginess of the VA forward. I do not find it particularly complex, but the experience definitely depends on how it is approached, and I find both faces of this tobacco quite enjoyable. I would have named it Janus. It is a high quality tobacco at a nice, low price. I think it is on par with the luxury twist flake, though different. A nice, contemplative, and comforting offering from Stokkebye.

I got some of this blend to compare it against Edgeworth Sliced and Barbary Coast, and while it does have a bit of resemblance to those, I would not go so far as to say that this blend is a proper bulk alternative to either. However, evaluated on its own merits, this is a fine natural tobacco blend which is very enjoyable.

Rather than a strong grassy note, instead this blend plays more on the woody or nutty flavors typical of burley blends. There is a hint of a grassy flavor, but I find that this blend actually resembles Half and Half more than Edgeworth or Barbary Coast. There seems to be a very light topping reminiscent of apples, as other reviewers have noted, which to me tastes a lot like what H&H uses, except it is much more conservatively applied in Cube Cut.

Upon lighting, one initially tastes the apple type flavor. Then a slight grassy note appears but soon subsides into a rather strong woody and nutty flavor. This blend has essentially zero tongue bite factor, so you can enjoy the full taste without fear. For a burley blend this has heaps of good flavor, so I find that this blend is to my liking.

Overall, Cube Cut is a good tasty burley based blend which reminds me mostly of Half & Half but is a notch or two better in my opinion: it has more flavor yet it is more refined. I'm not sorry that I ordered a pound of this, and for the excellent bulk price I may get more when this is all gone. Considering the good taste and minimal bite factor this batch probably won't last long. I feel like smoking another bowl of it already.