Sutliff Tobacco Company French Quarter

A mild to medium slow burning coarse cut plug mixture that may require a little rubbing out. The sweet bourbon and honey toppings along with a little sugar from the black cavendish are the star flavors, though there are some earthy toasted, nutty burley spots in the mix. There's also a fresh bread and grass from the Virginia, that adds to a light hint of fruit. Has a touch of Cyprian latakia for a smoky quality. There's a pinch of perique that is virtually undetectable. Has a mild nic-hit. Won't bite. A pleasant smoke that may need a little drying time, or the tobacco at the bottom of the bowl can get a little hard, especially if you are a wet smoker. Needs a fair amount of relights. I consider it to be more of a sipping blend. Two and a half stars.

-JimInks

The tin note is liquor, a little honey and a little vanilla. Cut is an irregular wide ribbon with some chunks and a few "fish flakes."

Smoked, this was a fairly pleasant mild aromatic that has a slight chemical taste when first lit. Room note is nice and smells a little of pastry maybe. It is hard to identify. There was not much tobacco flavor there.

This one is hard for me to rate. For an aromatic of this sort, it is probably a 2.5. My tastebuds give it a 2.

Sutliff is kind enough to send our pipe club a dozen tins of their blend of the month and they've been doing it for years (Altadis, prior to Sutliff), and French Quarter came to us very fresh right after they included it in their "Private Stock" listing of tobaccos.

Most Sutliff blends are broad (another word for coarse) cut and, of course, cannot be rubbed out further in such a form. So, expect a slower burn which was intended as these blends usually contain a lot of casing which can heat up any tobacco - including Burley. French Quarter's descriptive here is honey and Vanilla. I tasted neither but did taste a rather unnatural sweetness that frankly, was pretty good. Almost sweet almond extract in nature. The blend is pretty moist and doesn't dry out, so expect a lot of moisture in your pipe after smoking it. Not at all bitey and loaded with flavor (other than tobacco), that really had our club's aromatic crowd delightfully happy.

Pipestud

I got this tin bc I asked what is was. The owner gave it to me for free quite readily. He's a good guy, and I recommend his shop to anyone looking for a place to buy pipes and tobacco of any kind. If he doesn't have it, he will get it for you. He is however a businessman. And while it was a well appreciated freebie, it was also not unlike bad advice. A bit too quickly given, and much to hastily accepted haha. I had just purchased my peterson01 st Patricks day 2014 from him. My 3 yr old son Seamus was climbing all over his overstuffed leather couches as I was scrutinizing his wares thoroughly.

The tin sounds like it full of bbs when you shake it gently, it's not as full as it looks to be. I had it figured for broken flake, but I can accept it for being a course cut if they say so. Smells strongly of vanilla and honey. I roughed it up a bit before putting it into a slightly used cob and I set down to business.

Come to find out it was a messy business indeed. It burned like hellfire in my mouth and did not taste pleasant. Neither like tobacco nor like the vanilla it claims to flavored with. It's not that it wasn't flavored, and heavily so to my tastes. It was just not very vanilla to me. Maybe a good comparison would be vanilla coffee from McDonalds. I was wet as well. I unloaded my pipe halfway and a few days later tried again.

This time I let it sit out 10 mins or so to dry. I double charred it. It was still not very good to me. It's behavior was appalling. I couldn't get over the bland artificial nastiness of it. The nic content wasn't apparent to me either. The cut was fun to work with. It was easy to prepare for the pipe. It took a flame well enough and my wife/gf though it smelled "lovely". That's her way of making fun though. The words, "smells like the pipe fairies' favorite perfume" come to mind haha. It was free, so no harm done. I can't help thinking it may have been revenge for wee little boot prints on his lounge couches though.

I'm sure there are a large number of smokers out there who would love this blend, and they are welcome to it. It may be well suited to an experienced aro lover, or good for someone learning to smoke a pipe and new to tobacco in general. It's not for me however.

Low quality tobaccos, weird flavors, propylene glycol and a funny smell is what you get with this one. It does not burn properly. It leaves an awful taste in the mouth that is difficult to remove. You will need to clean your bowl with cognac or bourbon with some sea salt (soak for several hours) to exercise the demon that possesses the briar in its wake. Don't do it!

The tin aroma of this coarse, plug-cut cavendish is of treacly sweet coffee liqueur.

This is made primarily of cavendished light burleys and red virginias. There is a soupçon of dark leaf, most likely black cavendish, as perique doesn't seem to sensibly manifest. Heavily applied, the liqueurish topping is appealing.

French Quarter is a sweet and smooth cavendish which is thoroughly unlike Bourbon Street. It will definitely ghost a briar and seemed best in a narrow to medium gauge chamber.

This tin was a freebee from a fellow pipe club member. It has a wonderfully intense sweet honey like tin aroma and is comprised of large chunky flakes of tobacco. It smokes nice and sweet. I cannot really detect any bourbon flavor and can’t really describe what it tastes like except maybe vanilla, a little honey but that is only borrowed from the description on the web site. I do not have much of a discerning palette to describe this like some of the pros do. It is a nice aromatic and maybe I have just tried too many different blends lately to give it the in depth review it deserves. A nice flavored aromatic tobacco, what more can I say? If you can find a tin, try it.

When I opened the tin I smelled a faint but plesent vanilla smell and found this blend to be very mild yet pleasing. Everyone in the room complimeneted the scent. dry a little before you smoke just a little to moist in the tin for my liking. Recomeneded for the first time smoker because it has a mild flavor. Did not burn to hot and had no bite what so ever.

Look, this is an easy one. Way too many subsequent reviews here tend to reflect a few opinion leaders, a shame in this case. Ignore the smattering of 1-stars by the negativistic nabobs, and read the rest, adding one star to each. A fine, well balanced, lightly aromatic yet featuring the lovely components of the blend.

Hard to beat. If you find any - FQ has been discontinued - buy all you can. 3.5...

The tin note was topped burleys. Flavoring was there, but not like your typical aromatic. Gentle and sub-dued with a hint of sweetness but far from cloying. Nasal exhale was comfortable and my preferred way of smoking this blend, not to mention sipping instead of puffing. This blend will reward you in a savory-sweet velvet smoke. It has the same flavor profile of an american-style teriyaki sauce in reference to proportion of savory to sweet, rather than local flavor. Altogether not bad, but leaves me longing for a more natural tobacco.