Sutliff Tobacco Company Taste of Summer

Ordered this kinda on a whim, was looking for something "summery." The peaches definitely take the lead but not in a syrupy sweet way that I've find in other peach tobaccos. There's also a kind of creaminess in the flavor and it's perfect for smoking on a summer day as the sun sets. This is definitely an aromatic so if you're looking a peach flavored Best Brown Flake, you might wanna leave this and drink a Peach Nehi with a pipe of BBF.

My experience with this blend, Taste of Summer by Sutliff Private Stock, was a replica of the experience I had with another of their blends in this series; Spinnaker. Both had very strong tin aromas, were wet in the tin, were stuck to the tin bottoms, required prodigious amounts of drying-out time and were somewhat weak smokes when all was said and done. I opened this tin for the alleged Burley content knowing it was an aromatic. Here's how it went. I thought the mixture looked good in a familiar ruddy brown to near black range and then I touched it. Sopping wet, there was no way this tobacco could be smoked in this condition. In the afternoon I set a wad out to dry. Now, let's talk about the odor of this blend. I never grokked anything that resembled peach but did recoil at the shear density of a fruity aroma that affected my nasal linings in a kind of acidic way. I checked on the sample off and on all evening, but neither the wetness nor the overly dense odor declined all that much. I let it sit out all night and most of the morning and early afternoon next day before lighting up. The moisture had come down some and the odor was of an artificial fruit aroma. I wasn't happy with the moisture level but got tired of waiting, I lit up anyway and discovered that this aromatic had an odorant that wasn't going to burn off right away. The entire bowl was affected strongly and it absolutely dominated the upper half of the bowl. It was difficult to detect the base tobacco in the smoke and it didn't emerge until the bottom third. After all that had proceeded trying to get this blend smokeable, you get a mild Burley and Virginia blend with some black Cavendish softening. I emptied the entire tin onto some newspaper, spread it all out and let it dry for three days and nights. Drier and a little more tamed, the base tobacco was detectable in the entire bowl and actually smoked a little better. However, this is a lot of work to go through to enjoy a bowl of tobacco - two stars.