Blender's Gold Golden Burley

I'm judging this tobacco based on what it is, not on what it is not. It's a plain golden burley, pure and simple. About a year ago I bought a 12 oz. Bag of this for $12 at a local Walgreen's and immediately packed it all into a pint sized Mason jar (yes it was a tight fit). Recently I returned to the jar and upon opening it was greeted with as delicious an aroma as I've ever met from any tobacco. Nothing exotic but plain home cooking, so to speak. An aroma that can only be attributed to good old American burley. I was immediately tempted to do what my cat does when I lay out an ounce of catnip for her; just bury my face in it.

Smoking it was an equally delightful experience. That sweet, nutty, flavor one would expect from a good, plain, burley. Nothing complex. Nothing to fret over. No casing that I could detect. It lit on the first light and stayed lit to the bottom of the bowl. Left no goop, no gurgle. Never bit. Never turned bitter. Same flavor from start to finish. And the experience has been the same with every subsequent bowl.

This is better than Prince Albert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Granger, or any other OTC burley I've ever tried, and considerably cheaper. I've never tried any of the boutique burleys at 3x the price of this stuff. I can't justify buying any, not when I can get a plain burley this good for $1 an ounce. Maybe the year tightly packed in the jar helped; I don't know. I've been told that such aging doesn't really improve burleys (though it obviously doesn't do them any harm either).