Sutliff Tobacco Company Tobacco Galleria - Midnight Smoke

Just finally got around to smoking this selection from the Sampler. Very, very mild. No tobacco flavor of any sort, just vanilla. No need to even light up. Just draw the sweet air from the unlit pipe.

Not recommended at all.

The only thing good I can really say about this blend is that people love the smell. I couldn't really taste much of anything, really. You can puff as hard and fast as you can and you still won't get tongue bite.

If you want a crowd pleaser, this is a good one to fire up, but otherwise, I'd steer clear of it.

They say this is extra mild.... That's a bit of an ubderstatement. This black cav would benefit from a bit of topping. Doesn't even matter what the topping is, just give it something. (And I'm not an aromatic fan.)

It smokes very cool, and won't bite.

Black short ribbon cut tobacco. Comes a little moist, tho I suspect that is mostly PG rather than water.

Bag note is a vanilla/caramel/maple generic sort of aroma. There is something else in there I think, perhaps anisette. Additionally the smoke itself has some citrus notes, which might be from the tobacco itself.

Despite the apparent moisture this is a one match tobacco. It is mild and sweet with the pouch notes staying true for most of the bowl, until the last third when some bitterness comes to the front.

A very subdued tobacco suitable as a change of pace or something to please the missus, or at least less likely to draw complaints. I can't rate in higher than 2 because of the bitterness however.

Edit. This baccy actually fogged up when jarred. Not a little bit, but like a teenager's Holden HR at the drive-in. This was a new one to me.

There is something to be said about this style of tobacco. It really is very plain. Some companies would give this type of blend a ridiculous name, put it in an elegantly gilded tin, and charge three times the price of this blend. Even in this configuration people would buy it and smoke it.

In the pouch this tobacco is dark as the pits of hell. Much like Lanes BCA, it is very goopy, has a slight chemical smell, and will leave a ghost in anything that burns it. It had very little flavor, and I had a heck of a time keeping it lit, even though I attempted (in vain) to dry it out.

It is certainly not all bad. To my surprise this blend had no tongue bite at all, which is rare for this type of ameliorate steeped tobacco. Also, the room note was very nice.

First time pipe smoker, this was a recommendation from my local cigar shop. I wanted to determine if I liked Cavendish vs Latakia and such.

The smell is deep and sweet, molasses like. It smells pretty good, but it was quite moist as well. I was Surprised how mild it was after how deep it smelled. it was like smoking nothing at all, what's the point?

I love dark, deep, smooth cigars, but I could hardly notice any real flavor at all. Just enough to know that I would like to find a Cavendish of much higher quality, in that i guess it served it's purpose. This tobacco needs to be dried out, as it took a lot of matches to keep it lit, which takes the relaxation out of it constantly relighting and just trying to keep it going.

I may blend this with the Altadis Fox and Hound I got from the local store as well, just to see how that goes.

Its not bad; its not great either. At first i thought this blend was definitely worth adding in as something to always have on hand. As i smoked more bowls i realized there was nothing too special about it. The flavoring was quite bland. There was no trace of topping but very little flavor from the leaf as well; i found myself wondering what the point of even smoking it was.

This blend was simply too bland and simple for me. I'm not a black Cavendish fanatic but i definitely thought this blend was lacking in character. It's worth a shot but i wouldn't recommend it over casual conversation.

I can smoke this aromatic with little problems, but it tends to bite a little. The finish is not that great, and the moisture content is pretty high. If you smoke this make sure you let it dry out. If I am in a fix and in the mood for an aromatic, I will smoke this, but the chances of me buying more are not too high. Not a really terrible blend when smokes slowly, but nothing too special either.

I just got my sampler pack last night, and I've only smoked 1 bowl of this stuff. My question is, is it tobacco? Very mild smoke. Not much of any kind of flavor, but when I opened the bag, it was very noticeable, though not once I lit the bowl. Room note is just OK. I probably wouldn't buy this again, but I would definitely recommend this one to someone just starting out. Very very mild, with no detectable bite...

Update, Saturday 5:01am. Well I finished a bowl of this, and I still wonder where the tobacco went? I noted that when I cleaned out the last bit of dottle, it was rather wet looking, so I would imagine that I will have to clean out my pipe after every single smoke of this stuff. Still overall, for a free sample it wasn't that bad. I have smoked worse. Borkum Riff Jamaican Rum comes to mind.

Sunday 7:06am. I decided to try another bowl of this stuff. I can't make up my mind about this tobacco. I think one must either like it or hate it. I happen to like many cavendish blends, so I'm gonna give this one a few more trys, and then I'll come back and give it my final verdict.

Saturday 12/29/07 I have discovered a good use for this Midnight Smoke. Use it as a mix for tobacco's with a bad bite, or a bad taste. I had some older Borkum Riff which had been laying around for quite some time, so I decided to mix up two parts of Borkum Riff to one part Midnight Smoke. Turned some rather unsmokable crapola into something not too bad.