Manifatture Sigaro Toscano Forte

Cheap Italian Kentucky with an unpleasant surprise. I never paid too much attention to the contents of this tobacco before starting to smoke the pipe. I used to roll this in cigarettes because it's cheap, gave me the nicotine fix I needed and it has a simple Kentucky taste. Then one day I read on a forum that someone was complaining about the presence of reconstituted tobacco in the blend: I then pured the contents of the bag on the table, turned on the light and armed myself of a pair of plastic tweezers with the goal of finding and taking out of it all the reconstituted tobacco. I found around 5 to 8 grams of the stuff in the bag, it looks like coarse recycled paper and it's lighter in color than the real tobacco in the bag. I then tried to smoke that crap on its own in a cigarette: zero taste, zero nicotine. Then the real tobacco on its own in my pipe: without the reconstituted tobacco in it it's even stronger in taste and nicotine hit. It's a simple Kentucky not particularly aromatic, just plain strong tobacco taste, good if you want to smoke a simple inexpensive tobacco or if you have some tobacco that needs a bit more body to it ( add some forte to it and it will be fixed), but if you want the taste of a sigaro toscano in your pipe just crumble a piece of a real one.