Sutliff Tobacco Company Almondine J3

You've gotta love Altadis: their only consistancy is their very inconsistancy.

This one smells pretty decent in the pouch, very rich and the almond liquor really comes through. Smoking, however, is a different matter. Like the Wild Cherry they put out, the tobacco tastes faintly like...well, something. It's not quite almonds, but I wouldn't call it unpleasant. My girlfriend commented that the room note was "not bad," which is HUGE for her, because the pipe reminds her of her ex-husband. This is, in fact, the first time she hasn't turned her nose up at it.

I'm on the fence about Almondine. It's not bad, but it's just not much of anything. Needs to be smoked low and slow, or it will bite (which is typical of these blends anyway).

This is another sample that came to me. I love almonds but I did not get that flavor or aroma from this blend at all. To be honest, I liked the flavor I did get from it and enjoyed the aroma very much. Just does not live up to it's name so I can't rate it higher. It is a mottled, multicolor blend and with a very long shag cut. It is way too moist out of the pouch and somewhat sticky. It took a couple of lights and relights to smoke. Personally, though I liked the liquer flavor I found this to smoke really hot. Not for beginners at all. Not one of Altadis's better blends and will use it mixed with something else, maybe a chocolate and have a Mounds experience.

Not the best effort from the Sutliff stable by any means. Smells like a winner in the bag and in the first half of the bowl more or less. Goes from a sweet aromatic to a common VaBur in the end. When I finish these 4 ounces I will not likely re order. This for me is a hay cutting or weed eating smoke.

Expected more flavor but wasn't a bad smoke. Smelled great. Taste alright. I would smoke it again.

I picked this up as one of my first pipe tobacco purchases only a few months ago. The aroma of the opened pouch was wonderful. Filling the bowl was easy enough but lighting it was less than desirable as I wasn't patient enough to let the pouch dry out a little before trying. After lighting, the first third of the bowl was pleasant enough with a hint of almond and perhaps vanilla. After that what flavoring was there had left the bowl and the tobacco had strengthened. By the end of the smoke I was left with a flavorless tobacco that became quite dull. However, the room note that was left was quite pleasant. Enough so that my wife(who doesn't mind at all if I smoke indoors!) complimented it greatly. The room note also increases greatly if smoked inside a car leaving a more than welcomed toasted marshmallow aroma. It did improve a little when it had been dried out to my liking, but I can only recommend this aromatic if one is looking for a good room note only. I give this two stars on account of its wonderful room note.

Pouch smell is great, but when you put it into a glass jar it just gets nice and heady/boozy smelling. But a few puffs after you get it burnign in your pipe the sweetness you recieved descends into a mellow blandness.

Did have an amaretto, not almond, taste and smell when smoking it, and the bowl did reek of amaretto when cooled down. Just not worth the time to me anymore.

Like Frangelico you can smoke, sort of...an after-dinner cordial/liqueur type thing that will make those around you (those who aren't anti-smoking sheep) swoon with delight.

They'll tell you how wonderful it smells and you'll smile and then tap the stuff out as soon as the casing burns off which, like chewing all of the sugar out of a stick of cheap bubble gum, occurs all too quickly.

No cathedral to the noble leaf here. Yes it gurggles, yes it'll burn you if you let it, and yes it is very sweet, but the casing is decently executed (though somewhat synthetic at times) and you certainly get what you pay for at this price.

Picked up a pouch on sale while traveling. After reading reviews of it, I wasn't very optimistic about my purchase.

I agree with other reviewers that the pouch smell is very nice. It wasn't too goopy with PG when I opened it to aerate the shag. Loaded nicely and packed well. Lighting took some coaxing, but once lit it was good on its own. Burned hot, but very little bite.

There was a mild PG flavor upon lighting, but then nothing until I got half way down the bowl. Once I got there, suddenly there was flavor to the smoke. I'd call it a subtle, earthy sweetness. Room note was pleasant throughout the bowl and it finished without a huge nicotine hit and no dottle to speak of.

Not even close to unseating my top three, but definitely not a waste of $4.

Its worth a try, its advertised as an aromatic how ever it had more of a smokey taste nothing like stated on the package. The brand is fair priced and i like other blends of theirs, i guess this one just wasnt for me.