Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding

Currently in my top 3, Smokey, spicey and sweet, it's easy to smoke and requite only a few relights.

Like mississippI river, Plum pudding smokes best not overly rubbed out, needs some dry time maybe a couple of hours, it seems dry straight out of the tin but I found it wasn't and made it impossible to finish the last 1/3 of a bowl.

1st half of the bowl is mostly latakia and Virginia, by the 2nd half the orientals start to come forth and by the end it gets a bit sweet and salty in a good way.

Not an all day smoke for myself i mostly smoke virginias, its a little rich for all day but it's a great after dinner treat.

While the smoking experience isn't as good as the heavenly, complex dried fruit aroma, I did find this tobacco quite interesting and nuanced. Mouthfeel is one of the more notable aspects, leaving a creamy coating, bordering on sticky. It tends to smoke hot. Flavors include raisins over mushrooms, woody. Needed several relights--might need more drying time. Latakia was light, with peppery Perique on the exhale.

This review is intended for my personal record of what I like, please dont take this particular review to heart.

for a latakia heavy blend, i liked it. Smooth, creamy, much more approachable. Not my favorite but not bad either. I will have to take notes on this again while im smoking it.

Seems to be the same components in Mississippi River, but much balanced and layered. Cavendish round the edge out, but a little over IMO. Great krumble Kake presentation is a plus. the flavor is unique and interesting.

Another of the bombers gifts.

Tin note is wild, spicy and smokey and a bit sweet with a little tangy whiff to it. The presentation is chunks/slice of very well pressed short ribbons. It doesn't take a huge amount of work to prep this as opposed to a flake. It does take a bit though. After which, it packs easily with a light tamp. Don't want to firm this up much or it will not smoke properly. It takes fire well, and doesn't really need much help to keep going. Burns nice and cool though.

It is very tasty. The Latakia is up front and is sweet, smokey and delicious. Not heavy, but very present. They mixture with the other ingredients plays very well together. The perique adds a nice little zip to the mix, and the cav kind of smooths the whole thing out. The VA is nice and sweet and I'm not getting much of a citrus note from it. You can really tell that a lot of thought went into making this.

It may not be a good blend for beginners to get into, as it is a nice full English/Scottish with perique. For most others though, it is definitely worth trying. I will be buying more to smoke and cellar.

This is a great full bodied "english" blend. It is not peppery, and some lat-per's are. It has a nice sweet note to it. Probably due to the cavendish. I found it needed no drying time. It smelled, smoked and tasted great right out of the bag.

This is a full tasting English that I cannot more enthusiastically recommend. As the previous reviewer noted, Plum Pudding benefits from a bit of drying; that said, once in the bowel and lit, this particularly blend of "Latakia, Orientals, Virginias, Perique and a little something extra" (Tin Label) makes for a deep, robust, and completely enjoyable smoke.

I found that Plum Pudding paired well with whisky; I often prefer scotch, and this case the smoky qualities of an Isle of Islay whisky accompanied the tobacco quite well. By itself, Plum Pudding is flavorful without allowing any one aspect of its blended components to overpower.

hmmm This blend is a bit tricky for me. I loved Mississippi River and wanted to see what else SPC was offering. I'm new to the pipe smoking hobby so of course I might not be as experienced as the rest of you all. I enjoy the campfire smell and taste. I got what I was looking for in this blend. Sweet & smoky. I've used cobs and a briar churchwarden. I thought it was great in the cob. Slow burn, easily kept lit, all day sort of smoke. When I tried it out in the churchy it got a bit funky. I got a weird burnt bread/nut/chemical taste about 1/3 into the bowl. It was surprising. I definitely will keep it around for my cobs but not again in old churchy.

An English flake that's just different. (Reference point: 10 Russians and Gaslight are more latakia dominated.) It's a bit of potpourri, but it comes together. The latakia and perique mix nicely delivering a cool spicy smoke. The latakia is not overwhelming as in some blends, and that's fine. (I love latakia bombs and this isn't one.) There is a nice topping of cavendish, and that may offend some English purists. I don't care. It's a good smoke, a nice change-up from straight heavy Englishes, which I like.

I've smoked this upon receipt, but also have several tins stowed away for aging. I look forward to revisiting this again.