Villiger Late Night

Well, indeed, it's a good choice in the late evening, when you're full of Ni and you want just to rest and relax with your pipe. Excelent, sweet, soft, raisin-like Va (there is sth in taste that reminds me Solani Virginia Flake) with just a touch of honey and whisky. When I smoke it I feel sun on my skin.

I really liked this blend, perhaps as much as Peterson's Irish Whiskey, which is a long time favorite. I could taste the whiskey just a bit more than with the Peterson's version, but never did taste the "honey" that reportedly has also been added. What I also really liked about this blend is the fact that the Virginia taste is so at the front. And quality Virginia to boot. No heat with quick puffing and I liked that because the super flavor of this one does raise the suck and puff meter.

Pipestud

If pipe tobacco were like The Three Bears, this would be in Baby Bear's pipe. It's not too hot. It's not too cold. It's not too hard. It's not too soft. It is absolutely just right. The manufacturer says this Virginia is flavored with Irish whisky and honey. I note a slight sweetness to the tobacco, but I think it's more the tobacco, itself, than any casing. In fact, I don't notice anything other than the sweetness of the tobacco when I open the tin. I haven't had a bite on my tongue at all, and I get just the right hint of Vitamin N - not too much, not too little. I tried it on a lark, and I am glad I did. I would go out if my way to buy it again.

When I cracked a tin of this and lit it up, I was immediately surprised that it has not received more attention. This is a very high quality tobacco. It's a bit rough around the edges, perhaps, and gets bitey if it's puffed too hard, but it has excellent VA flavor, nice body, and a pleasant amount of nicotine. I was reminded of Marlin Flake in the mid-tones, but to be honest I think I might like this better, with all due respect. It burns beautifully, and the whiskey topping, though very subtle, intensifies into a delicious background flavor after the mid-bowl point. Maybe the low price point is a factor in some luke-warm reviews I have seen of this stuff. It's a steal at the price, and is better than many much more expensive tobaccos. I recommend it highly!

A fantastic smoke and one of my favorite aromatic blends. This is basically a fine Virginia flake with some light flavoring to make it an aromatic. In other words, this is a tobacco lover's aromatic. When you open the tin you immediately see the nice chunks of flake in a bed of broken flake. The Virginia tabacky and Cavendish are evident. The Virginias give the smoke a smooth tobacco taste base with the sweet Cavendish and whiskey on top. Nice sweet honey subtly throughout. I like to smoke this now and then so a tin lasted a year in my rotation. Also, I finished the tin in May 2020 but the distration of the Covid pandemic held up me posting this review. I really enjoyed this blend.

Summary: A sweet but balanced honeyed Virginia blend.

Being a fan of "Royal Yacht," it was exciting for me to try this tobacco along similar lines. The topping seems very much the same, a warm honey flavor infused with alcohol, and the Virginias are similar, the type of grainy sweetness that like a good beer is enhanced by the contrast not the overuse. Most Virginia blends seem like breakfast cereals, a heavily refined grain with a giant lump of sugar on top of it, but both "Royal Yacht" and "Late Night" taste most like chewing on a stalk of dry grass at the end of summer, with a faint sweetness present and then peeking through in greater intensity from moment to moment. The Cavendish feels like it could have been better as a mix of white and dark Burley, since Cavendish creates a little hook of a roast syrupy flavor that is a bit autumnal and contrasts the boisterous vigor and freshness of the Virginias. On the whole, this is a good blend that one could smoke all day and enjoy, if able to taste subtleties and contrasts instead of massive blasts of sugar, but it probably went nowhere because it does not have a quirk to make it stand out, and as a mild bodied blend, it does not provide what those who like subtle, intense, and powerful English blends desire. Still I enjoy this as a cousin to the venerable "Royal Yacht" and am sorry that it is out of production.

This was my first tinned tobacco (generally stick to bulk and the occasional pouch) and it's been in rotation on a regular basis since. It's just flat-out nice, even-smoking, pleasant blend.

I don't usually get a whole lot of the whiskey flavoring, honestly. For me, it was bright Virginia rounded out just a bit with dark Cavendish to create a really balanced blend.