Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Kentucky Nougat

Gawith Hoggarth - Kentucky Nougat.

This has a very sweet unlit aroma to it where you can identify the added aromatics. Moistness is good, making it quite easy to light up. The smoke from this has a very toffee/cream like flavour to it which I find lovely as its easily recognizable but not too heavy for my tastes and it also allows for the Cavendish/Virginia's to be detected. Nicotine content is fairly light and it gives no tongue bite whatsoever. The toffee/cream flavour does not seem to dissipate any as the bowl burns on. The room note with this one is nothing to shout home about as it is a fairly standard Virginia with only a very slight sweetness to it but still not at all unpleasant.

It will suit those of us who are new to aromatics as it is not overpowering or it would be good for beginners.

Kentucky Nougat;

Star Rating = 3.85;

Rating Scores - 10 is the Best and 0 is the Worst;

Pouch Note = 10;

Room Note = 10;

Flavor = 10;

Bite = 10;

Burn = 10;

After Taste = 9;

Raw Score = 59;

Rated Percentage = 98%;

Comment = Very Smooth, Very Mild, Mellow, enjoyable light Cherry Flavor

If you are a beginner like myself then this tobacco is ideal. It is extremely smooth, very very gentle on the palate and hasn't caused me any tongue bite yet. The Nougat is very obvious and this is an almost too sweet smoke. It does taste very much like sucking a toffee.

I think seasoned pipe smokers would find it very bland indeed, but for a beginner, particularly breaking in a new pipe, it is delicious.

Very light on the palate, yet to me the smoke/tobacco really comes through more than in other "light" aromatics. My wife complained of the smoke smelling like cigars and she normally likes my pipe smoke aroma... she's getting used to it though. 😉 I can't tell when I'm smoking it, as it has a great flavor that really comes through the smoke. Leaves a good room note in my opinion, maybe a bit stronger than some others. Doesn't bite AT ALL and burns well, I was able to get it to produce a good amount of pluming smoke.. Has a perfect moisture content and smokes superb. This is one I will keep on hand in the cellar and buy more of whenever it's available. Is it an all-day smoke? Very much so... it's an all-year smoke.

I don't usually like sweet or sweetish tobaccos, but this stuff is excellent. The flavour is very pleasant indeed, the aroma equally so. It's not too sweet, not cloying.

Black and light brown baccy cut mostly into small ribbons. Easy to pack in your pipe. Burns very evenly and slowly, which we all know doesn't happen too often with baccys. Very satisfying - no lingering disappointment here. I smoked it same day as purchase, a few days ago, and the subsequent days, but although initially distinctly moist the baccy still smokes very well. It also dried quite quickly in my leather baccy pouch, but isn't too dry.

Even if you don't go for anything remotely sweet, you'll still like this (he sez, in defiance of some previous reviews), and your initial impression might well be one approaching Nirvana.

I've smoked this occasionally over the last decade or more, but lately have been asking myself why on earth I haven't smoked it more. I'm sure I will buy it much more often now.

Pilgrims Shop in Canterbury (Kent) sells it loose from large tins. If you're visiting, I can recommend parking in Morrison's underground car park for free (1 1/2 hours maximum), then walk round to the shop. Takes about 7 minutes.

It's very interested aromatic mixture with excellent taste. This tobacco is for lovers of aromatic tobacco. The taste is very original. I can really recommend this tobacco.

Im a tool yes for using a Nougat pipe for a nougat tobacco, sue me. I am in general not a fan of heavily flavored or aromatic tobaccos, they tend to leave a coated feeling that I cant move past.

But this blend is the opposite. You get the flavor through and through. It doesn't fade, it doesn't really build from the bowls I've smoked. It stays steady and lasts, enjoyable from the first to last puff. It is very sweet so if that is not your thing, dont bother, But it truly does taste like smoking Nougat, half my life as a chef and baker has taught me that flavor. I love it. comforting and soothing when relaxed and invigorating when on the go. Something I will relish for a long time.

I normally smoke the stronger blends but I was looking for something by way of a change that I could alternate with from time to time. I headed to my local tobacconist for a jar sniffing session and settled on this one which had a rich, sweet, toffee scent, about as far removed from Condor, Old Dark Fired or Royal Yacht as it's possible to get. Many years ago, Benson and Hedges Mellow Virginia was a big seller in the OTC blends. It still is although nowadays it's called Special Virginia and it has lost a lot of that special something that set it apart and made everyone within a certain radius know exactly what you were smoking. This is the nearest thing I've found to those 1970's days with Special Virginia. I taste no citrus at all and only mild traces of chocolate but I am getting lost in the wonderful taste and smell of toffee and cream. It lights at the first time of asking and few if any relights are required. This is wonderful stuff, I will certainly be getting much more of it. Highly recommended.

Fresh tobacco smels after chocolate, cream and vanilla, maybe a hint of floral. There is also nutiness in taste after lighting. Acutate moisture, need only few relights. Left pleasant aftertaste. One of the best lakeland tobacco out there.