Vauen Zeppelin
(3.17)
Mild pipe tobacco with some herbal notes. Smokes smooth and cool, with a spicy aroma and a masculine scent.
Details
Profile
Strength
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Mild to Medium
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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3.17 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 11 - 12 of 12 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2019 | Medium | Mild to Medium | Medium | Pleasant |
Ah, Vauen's Zeppelin. One of the first pipe tobaccoes i ever smoked, and it still has a firmly secure place on my tobacco shelf.
It comes out of the tin at the perfect moisture for smoking, and produces a wonderful, if somewhat difficult to identify tin note. It's sweet, cinnamon-y, with an almost alcoholic note to it.
Once you're smoking it, you'll find that "difficult to identify" is a theme with this blend. I can read the back of the tin and see what's in it, but i find that the flavours in this blend mingle so very well that it's very difficult to single out one type of leaf. The only thing that's definite to my senses is the velvety smooth sweetness of the cavendish, and the contrasting, but relatively subtle smokiness of the latakia.
And then there's the topping. It's relatively mild, but definitely a main component of this blend. Tasting much like the tin note, the flavouring makes me think of cinnamon, maybe even gingerbread. There's also a hint of plum or dried fruit in there, i believe. It actually reminds me of a more mellow version of the topping used in Peterson's University flake.
As you go through the bowl, it does trade in some of it's flavour for a little more strength, but it never becomes flavourless or even unpleasant.
The tobacco burns very cleanly all the way down the bowl.
My one issue with this tobacco is that you have to be seriously careful with your pace. Smoke it very, very slow, and you get wonderful flavour out of it. Get carried away even slightly and the flavour is lost quite quickly. It'll also bite if you're not careful. As a result of the mandatory slow pace, you may also find this blend needing a few relights.
Overall, this is a lovely, neat, velvety smooth aromatic, as long as you smoke it carefully. Or on a cold winter's day.
It comes out of the tin at the perfect moisture for smoking, and produces a wonderful, if somewhat difficult to identify tin note. It's sweet, cinnamon-y, with an almost alcoholic note to it.
Once you're smoking it, you'll find that "difficult to identify" is a theme with this blend. I can read the back of the tin and see what's in it, but i find that the flavours in this blend mingle so very well that it's very difficult to single out one type of leaf. The only thing that's definite to my senses is the velvety smooth sweetness of the cavendish, and the contrasting, but relatively subtle smokiness of the latakia.
And then there's the topping. It's relatively mild, but definitely a main component of this blend. Tasting much like the tin note, the flavouring makes me think of cinnamon, maybe even gingerbread. There's also a hint of plum or dried fruit in there, i believe. It actually reminds me of a more mellow version of the topping used in Peterson's University flake.
As you go through the bowl, it does trade in some of it's flavour for a little more strength, but it never becomes flavourless or even unpleasant.
The tobacco burns very cleanly all the way down the bowl.
My one issue with this tobacco is that you have to be seriously careful with your pace. Smoke it very, very slow, and you get wonderful flavour out of it. Get carried away even slightly and the flavour is lost quite quickly. It'll also bite if you're not careful. As a result of the mandatory slow pace, you may also find this blend needing a few relights.
Overall, this is a lovely, neat, velvety smooth aromatic, as long as you smoke it carefully. Or on a cold winter's day.
Pipe Used:
Various briars
PurchasedFrom:
Cigarworld.de
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2012 | Mild | Strong | Mild | Tolerable |
Acquired for smoking in the matching pipe. In spite of the friendly ribbon cut the results were worse yet than with other tobaccos that I've tried with the torpedo, the record time without relight being around sixty seconds. For evaluation purposes I've thereafter used a number of more, eh, regular pipes.
The tobacco emits a strong Irish Creamy note. Definitely both vanilla and cherry in the casing. Surely we've all smoked a hundred bulk aromatic blends similar to this. Nothing distinctive here. The manufacturer's sticker mentions Carolina Bright, Old Belt Virginia, Kentucky, Black Cavendish & Syrian Latakia.
Trying to figure out what's so masculine about this tobacco the closest I've come to is a fire dept. Smoked in even the slightest breeze of wind the tobacco tastes of nothing but a sun-burnt rubber hose. I imagine those are common at the fire station, therefore masculine. Supported by the fallic tin art for sure. But hey, I learn lads wax their chest hair nowadays - eventually a tobacco without any nicotine to speak of is masculine as well.
There is no way I can finish the tin. Fortunately there is still room in the gallon jar that I dump all the tobaccos I get from the mother-in-law for Christmas in. When the world runs out of tobacco I'll still have that jar to go to.
The tobacco emits a strong Irish Creamy note. Definitely both vanilla and cherry in the casing. Surely we've all smoked a hundred bulk aromatic blends similar to this. Nothing distinctive here. The manufacturer's sticker mentions Carolina Bright, Old Belt Virginia, Kentucky, Black Cavendish & Syrian Latakia.
Trying to figure out what's so masculine about this tobacco the closest I've come to is a fire dept. Smoked in even the slightest breeze of wind the tobacco tastes of nothing but a sun-burnt rubber hose. I imagine those are common at the fire station, therefore masculine. Supported by the fallic tin art for sure. But hey, I learn lads wax their chest hair nowadays - eventually a tobacco without any nicotine to speak of is masculine as well.
There is no way I can finish the tin. Fortunately there is still room in the gallon jar that I dump all the tobaccos I get from the mother-in-law for Christmas in. When the world runs out of tobacco I'll still have that jar to go to.
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