Vauen Zeppelin

Very interesting mixture! When opening the tin i first noticed the latakia there but when taking a second breathe there´s also some vanilla detectable... Easy to fill and smoke. This blend has something i miss with most cheap tobaccoes: variety in taste. To set things straight, it doesn´t taste like mushrooms as some previous posters insist. Sometimes it tastes like a true english mixture sometimes there´s a nice sweetness and sometimes there´s a sourish taste there... But the different aromas comming through are never overwhelming but allways in a decent way. It also has some nicotine dose... I would recomend this blend to armoatic smokers that would like to head for english mixtures but aren´t ready for it yet or on the other hand for english lovers that wan´t to try something mild that wouldn´t offend bystanders and wifes!

Edit: thiy blend had become one of my all time favorites! 4 stars!

By far my favorite Vauen blend so far, this is one of the heaviest brown cavendish blends I have ever seen, at what appears to be over three quarters, golden virginia cavendish. This stuff is very, very smooth. It is flavored with vanillin, and has a whisper of latakia.

One of the very best semi-aromatic blends out there, with what may be one of the top 5 room notes that my non smoking friends have commented on. Commented on, a lot.

They don't get much more bite free than this without getting into a lakeland flake. Taste is of smooth smoked custard.

A must try, 4 star blend.

This one absolutely surprised me. A delightful smoke both in flavor and aroma. Opening the tin I mainly am greeted with tobacco scent, rather than casing. I get a sour Virginia note mostly. Upon lighting, that's when you will be surprised! The incense-like quality of the Latakia and the vanilla aromas and flavors come through, without overpowering the other excellent quality tobacco. I don't feel there is much if any fruit involved? Even my wife approves of this one and I think I will find myself ordering more tins of it. The room note reminds me of a high quality man's cologne... which I think is what they mean by "masculine" rather than a cloying room note.

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.