Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding

It rains a lot in Seattle, maybe I need gloomier weather for this stuff. It makes my cellar smell like gym socks even when sealed in canning jars. Also, why no burley? There's every other kind of leaf in here.

Not bad. Flavor is quite consistent. Very strong and strange plastic smell from the mid bowl. Not as gunky as Mississippi River brings to the bowl. Though looks like heavily cased, there is no improper aromatic smell. I always disagree to put any perique into an English blend. It makes the flavor younger. And i always agree that a great amount of Oriental brings English more matured, old, and lathery flavor. In this case, Oriental is either hardly tasted or disturbed by Perique. Strange thing to put Perique into English. Overall I think the recipe makes the blend younger, a little bit too young. Although the sugar casing (i guess) makes the blend mellow and sweet, it tastes just not matured and deep enough. It is not going to compete with Penzance in anyway, and definitely not as good as Margate or Pembroke. Two key issues: recipe and aging. There is nothing to complain spending 62 dollars to buy 16oz of tobacco tasted nicer than 965, but I hate the blend wasting me so much time to buy it. I checked online for almost 30 days to see it available. It does not deserve this. Artisan blend is even better. I am an old school English smoker? Maybe.

Not my cup of tea. I was not a fan of this one at all. I originally bought this because of the good reviews, so I figured I would give it a try. Once, I cracked the tin open, I had my reserve about the smell of it. Wasn't a fan at that time but thought it might taste different and maybe give a good room note, nope. All around just was not a fan, couldn't even make it through the whole bowl.

Summary: a Balkan made sweet through the addition of Cavendishes with a plum-esque note from the Perique.

If you have not experimented with blending your own Englishes, this blend may seem like wizardry, but that is the same effect that makes your odds-n-ends jar seem amazing: when you add enough stuff together, the internal conflict makes the blend seem to have a lot going on, but the lack of balance means that it defaults to the lowest common denominator among its ingredients. In this case, that is sweetness. In this blend, I taste mostly Virginia sweetness boosted by both sweetened and unsweetened Cavendish, and on top of that, a somewhat mediocre Oriental-heavy English. This makes it basically a bad match for a mix of "My Mixture 965" and "Nightcap" with Cavendish dumped in like the Super Value "English Blend." It is however a great way for Sutliff to sell its $2/ounce blending tobaccos as a $7/ounce boutique blend promoted by influencers. There are many better Englishes out there.

Beautiful flake and fantastic tin note. Too much work to get going. I have worked with this blend numerous times. Ton of relights. Decent smoke once it agreed but then I did not care for the follow through. One of the few blends I consistently had gurgle with. I am in the minority so you will likely have better results but I like my Lat's....and this is not one of them.

Not too much to enjoy for me in this blend .If you like heavily cased tobacco that is sickly sweet & syrupy with a lot of topping this might hit the right notes for you, You don't need much of this blend cause the taste will stay with you for days. Why do I bother with aromatics??

The smell of this Tobacco is amazing. Smells masculine and tough. Like a sailors blend. The plug or flake, fell apart like a dirt clod and basically became sand. To start. There is nothing “wrong” with this Tobacco, but to me, I felt like it was less than it’s components. This Tobacco to me had an identity crisis. So much going on, it was hard to taste anything. Sometimes tasting simply of flavorless smoke. This was personally not for me.

I've been a fan of the Mississippi River for a few years so naturally I wanted to see what Plum Pudding was all about. The Sutliff version is the only version I've had and is what I'm going to review.

Opening the tin the Latakia hits me. Very smoky, slightly sweet and deep tin note. At first light the Latakia is in your face. It reminds me of a dying camp fire type of smokiness. The sweetness is on the dark side. Unfortunately this is the highest point of the blend for me. The flavors turned very airy and light. Even though I can't find any hard evidence to prove it, I swear it tastes like a very light plum hence the name. I couldn't detect any of the orientals at all. Because of the lack of flavor, it tends to give me tongue bite due to over puffing. The combustion is great as it burns down to a white ash leaving no moisture or residue.

Overall, it's just not for me. I find Mississippi River more flavorful and complex without having to work at it. Fresh and at 6 months it's no different. This is going into my English jar that I made up to put all of the not so good blends in.

I found plenty of reviews hoisting the flag the colour of Plum pudding so I bought a tin. It’s smoky and fermented fruit smell at first crack of the lid. I see where the plum comes from. While in practice there is a bit of the fruit, a little sweetness, but does it remind anyone else of Thrills chewing gum……tastes like soap. I don’t know if it’s just me or I got a bad tin but it’s not going to be a favourite.