Cornell & Diehl Spice Nut

I always get a kick out of how C&D describes some of their strongest blends as Mild. This is no exception and is nearly as strong as their Scots Pub blend (awful stuff). It's a nice mix of rough cut browns and some black. The pouch aroma is fairly spicy but in a jalapeno way. It tickles the nose with a good sniff and there's not a distinguishable flavor to it. It's faily dry for their blends and extremely dry for an aromatic, so hopefully mold won't be a concern this time. Lighting is fairly easy and packing is wonderful in a large bowl, but a pain in a smaller bowl. The taste is just as described. It's spicy in a non-aromatic way and can burn the throat a little. I always blame that to the moisture content and not the tobacco though. The room aroma is smokey but again, nothing you can put your finger on. I have a hard time classifying this as an aromatic. It seems like it's something that Bob R. would have made up and marketed under the English line, but this has been around for a long time. If you like a straight forward tobacco taste with no bite (something else that most C&D blends do to me) I'd heartily recommend it. I'm really enjoying it and the light topping might might make it more room friendly than other natural blends. This will be in my rotation for quite some time- just for the unique spicy taste and real tobacco flavor. Probably the best thing I've tried from C&D in a long time...glad I took a shot with it.