Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding

Plum Pudding is a complex, dark, rich, full bodied and mysterious blend. Smoky, spicy, leathery, salty, peppery umami flavors. A dark complexity similar to very high quality German dunkel. Notes of figs and raisins, soap, yeast, viola. Occasional floral notes in the nose. The tin note is incredible. Ketchupy, steak-saucy, incensey, exotic, fermented and musty. The first time I heard about the tobacco with the name "Plum Pudding", I was instantly intrigued. Since then it's become my overall favorite English tobacco blend. I like to pack a bowl of this at night and top it off with a small layer of Dunhill Nightcap. It reminds me of very complex incense made in ashrams in India: Ayruvedic, spiritually inspired combinations of elemental herbs, spices, woods, gums and resins. It has that kind of mystical, exotic and otherworldly taste and smell to it. I always hated cigarettes even though I tried to like them. But when I was a boy I went into an humidor and smelled some exotic and dark aromas unlike any I had experienced before. I wondered if there could be more to tobacco than the experience of a cigarette or cheap cigar or was it all kind of like that? Much time passed and I discovered that there was a much higher order of tobacco that did in fact bare little to no resemblance to cigarettes. This is the one that did it, the one that made me realize that it could be gourmet and a true art form. Plum Pudding is a kind of masterpiece for the senses.

I love love love this tobacco. It's rich, woodsy, slightly spicy, and slightly sweet, perfectly blended. It comes in a Kake form and even breaking off chunks and pieces to load your pipe, the consistency of flavours is still there. The room note to me, is lovely. It has a real distinguished quality smell of that makes any sense. Like good quality leather furniture! It comes in bulk which is what I smoked. I'm the biggest fan of this kind of tobacco flavour. It's also got a slightly creamy smoke. It gets a little spicier mid bowl. I prefer this one over Mississippi River only because it's slightly less spicy and slightly sweeter. However that blend is also amazing.

This is one of the more interesting English blends I've smoked. The tin note (just one ounce in a baggie) is nice but subtle. The "kake" was dryer than it looked and doesn't need much (if any) drying time.

For the first third of the bowl, the room note outshined the smoke. For the last two thirds, the smoke was delicious while the room note became more complex. The flavor is ever changing but incredibly harmonious; takes you to unexpected places without missing a beat. This one's perfect for "snorking." Soak it up.

This is really good stuff. Very high three stars, rounding up to four.

With so many tobaccos involved, it's either hit or miss. I am happy to say that this mixture is a hit in all aspects.

A creamy and dry smoke with a smooth finish. I get a sweet, sour, salty, smoky and slightly fermented taste from a slow burning tobacco. A harmony of flavors with a canvas of Latakia on which the other tobaccos are added to create a masterpiece English mixture.

Congratulations to the Seattle Pipe Club and thank you for sharing this refreshing offering with us.

Virginia lover

This tobacco I found to smell of strong latakia upon first opening. I actually waited to smoke it due to strong room note I thought it would have. However, I found this blend to have a great full bodied flavor with some nice orientals lightly coming through. The room note was tolerable to the fiance which was a nice surprise. I find the smoke long and cool which is great. To me this tobacco smokes well slow but hot so I like a wide bowl to smoke out of, less of a success with my longer smaller bowls.

Exquisite! Mostly everything there is to be written about this blend already has. It's full-bodied, palpable, soft, smooth. One of my go-to tobaccos thus far.

One thing though. I'm a bit of an amateur so I don't want to make waves. But...this tobacco is classified on this site as a VaPer. Doesn't the tin itself read Balkan/English?

I'm a novice pipe smoker and wanted to try an English blend. After looking thru other reviews here I decided to give plum pudding a try and boy am I glad that I did. Has a very nice flavor and an ever so slight aftertaste that's actually pleasant. I'll be getting more of this very soon to cellar- its that good!

The general listing says that this tobacco is not available in bulk, but it most assuredly is available in bulk from Pipesandcigars.com. After having been on backorder for seven weeks, I finally received eight oz. bulk yesterday.

There were several blocks of krumble cake, but most of the tobacco was loose and perfectly fresh and moist. Eight oz. fills up a Mason jar perfectly.

My first impressions are that this is a high quality tobacco blend, with a complex mix of flavors. All of the bowls that I have smoked so far, have started off tasty and spicy from the very first light. About a third of the way down the bowl, I get a slightly salty taste and then the flavor profile explodes, and the Orientals make themselves known. Pleasant aftertaste.

Burn is incredibly good, with zero drying time. Ash is a fine white. No tongue or mouth burn whatsoever. The bowl does tend to get a little hot, due to my aggressive puffing. I find that when the tobacco does not relight, it is because there is no unburnt tobacco left in the bowl. Zero dottle. Pipe is virtually clean when the bowl is through.

In short, this is a tobacco worth waiting for, and sure to become a new favorite in my rotation. Four stars. Worthy of its praise, and highly recommended.

Sweet Grandmother's Spatula, that's good. Picked up a few ounces. Most of what I could say has already been said in praise of this amazing blend. I'll just add that my largest purchase of any one tobacco was 16 oz. I went and got 3 lbs of this. I am not close to that amount in another other blend.