Davidoff Scottish Mixture

I returned to pipe smoking after an almost 15 year hiatus. The first time taken up the pipe, it was as I was transitioning from my late teens into my early twenties. As many beginners, I started with heavily treated aromatic blends because that's what the shop keeper had on his counter for a meager college budget. Finding my pipe cumbersome, & the tobaccos harsh within a short time I'd abandoned the briar "for a season."

Years passed & I dug out my old briars after discarding cigarettes. After locating a pipe/cigar shop, I went inside to seek the elusive "perfect tobacco." This time, the shop keeper took the time to explain what an "aromatic" or an "english" tobacco was, and what makes them so very unique from one another. Seeing tinned tobaccos on his shelf I inquired why they were so expensive compared to his bulk offerings. His reply, simply: "You get what you pay for."

I grabbed Davidoff's Scottish Mixture only because I'd heard of Davidoff products & enjoy whiskey. ( I know, such PROFOUND criteria...) THIS was the blend that extended it's hand to me & said, "welcome to pipe smoking...glad you're here." It's characteristics blend between an English and an aromatic. This blend smoked easily, and was quite forgiving as I began to learn packing & lighting techniques. For the first time, I could begin to distinguish Virginas, Orientals, Burleys, etc. This was the first tobacco I'd tried that wasn't tongue bite with a side order of sugar.

Understand, I'm not saying this is perfection. I'm saying it deserves higher regard for being just what it claims to be; a quality product.

Full in flavor without much strength pretty much describes this Davidoff offering (IMO, of course).

I have struggled with Whiskey blends over the years. They just seem to burn a little warm to me but this one was different. I smoked a couple of bowls back to back and enjoyed every puff. I think I smoked multiple bowls until the tin was empty. This is delicious stuff!

Davidoff - Scottish Mixture.

This one seems to get a pretty middle of the road recommendation: at present it's mostly two and three star reviews. Here's my opinion:

The tin has a really subtle whisky note to it. It's that light it could be whisky, brandy, or any type of spirit. The amount of water to the blend is exemplary; open, fill, and smoke!

Once I'm piping some Scottish Mixture I straight away think I'm in the more positive category of reviewers.

To begin with, it lit easily, and straight away burned well. As many people point out, the whisky has been lightly added; it is light, but my opinion on that is if I wanted a blend that's packed with whisky flavour, I'd buy a strong aromatic. In Scottish Mixtures defence, it does say it's only been refined with a 'Dash' of Scotch!

I enjoy the tobacco flavours that come through. I reminds me of an English that's been told it's "got to chill out a bit": there is a slight woodiness there, but this is very insouciant. The Kentucky and Burley are, to my palate, the most headstrong of the tastes and they account for the majority of the smoke. The Turkish and Virginia are a lot farther down the flavour profile.

In my opinion, the nicotine's medium in Scottish Mix'. As I've often said though, that's a positive to me; it can be enjoyed by all different varieties of smoker: nicotine lovers, and flavour only folks.

After a few bowls I can easily say I enjoy this. It's not my favourite, I'd still only Recommend as opposed to Highly Recommending, but it's good. My first pipe full said "four stars", but a few bowls say "three is a justifiable rating".

Recommended.

A nice but a bit neutral blend.itried several scottish blends(R.Mc connell,dunhill aperitif)but this blend is nothing like others.the reason is the lack of latakia.when you open it you definitelly get whisky.good quality tobacco packs easy burns nice and never bit me!you get the nut and spice mixed with some sweetness wich is good.i would wanted more whisky flavour.you can start your day with it and end it it's mild and easy going.defenitelly worthy trying because you try a different scottish mix(no latakia).it will not dissapoint you but you won't get something unique from it

I’ve been smoking a pipe for nearly 25 years but only occasionally and without delving much into pipe tobacco although I was always in search for special cigarettes. For one or other reason I hadn’t smoked a pipe for quite a few years until last spring I decided to buy a tobacco again. The best – of disheartening few – makes available in my country is Davidoff so I tried my luck with the Scottish mixture and I was awed by this tobacco! I could not believe there were so good tobaccos available in Greece without me noticing. Many years ago I had tried some McClelland blends and those were the benchmark for me but it was so long ago I could not adequately compare. I then tried the Medalion Flakes which were also awesome and then I went to the Danish mixture which I did not like at all and left unsmoked. Meanwhile I sourced some very good tobaccos from abroad (Nightcap, McClelland Grand Orientals etc), and my knowledge of tobacco evolved swiftly. I wanted to come back to the Scottish mixture and see it anew. How would it taste to me now that I have smoked some really good tobaccos with pedigree?

Well, my first smoke at a café near the shop where I bought it was slightly disappointing. Not bad, but not much flavor either. In any case innocuous. Calling this tobacco aromatic sure does it a disservice. Casing is barely, if, noticeable at all. So, I thought I was going to mix it with some oriental leaf I have bought in bulk and make something out of it… Yet the same night I tried it again at the calm of my home office and it was perfectly fine, not exciting but still a good tobacco. It was mild in both strength and flavor with a wonderful sweet nutty aroma (burleys and orientals dominating if I have to place my bets) and also tasting fairly natural. In taste it was that it was lacking somehow as I mostly enjoyed this tobacco through the nose. It has much better aroma through the nostrils than flavor in the mouth. Quite dry on the palate, not much Virginia sweetness here but wonderful aroma. It also burns easily to the end and in general behaves nicely, does not get hot, and produces no tongue bite either you sip or smoke more aggressively. It produces a considerable amount of smoke as opposed to flake tobaccos I’ve tried, and it is indeed very forgiving as I read other reviewers stating as far as mechanics are concerned. For sure there are better tobaccos out there, but still this is highly recommended as a tobacco to start one’s adventure with. So three stars from me. It’s the tobacco that got me into smoking a pipe and giving up cigarettes after all…

One of my first pipe tobacco's. I really enjoyed it at the time. Quality tobacco, lovely aroma and easy to lit and smoke. Enjoyable is the word for me. No problems at all. Nothing negative to say. I have now found other blends that I have grown into, but I think I shall have another Scottish Mixture before too long. I think its good for an introduction to pipe smoking.

Smooth, little sweet and light to smoke. it would be a nice smoke, but it got a really bad SOUR aftertaste that lasts for hours in my mouth.

Beacause of this aftertaste I wouldn't recommend.

Bearing in mind the inflated prices of Davidoff tobaccos in the already over-priced UK tobacco market, I cannot see any scenario in which I could recommend this to a pipe smoker, new or old. To be frank, I get a bit angry that a blend with this kind of low quality feels itself fit to command as ludicrously high a price (at the time of writing) as £22.90 for a 50g tin.

If you want a low-nicotine, mild-tasting smoke, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But I tasted almost nothing smoking this tobacco and I'd recommend Clan or Gold Block from the local petrol station before I recommended this total rip-off to any undeserving soul.

In the midst of trying Scottish Blends. Davidoff comes across as a mostly neutral smoke. I don't taste the Scotch, but enjoy it nonetheless. The thing that surprised me was the N hit. Mush stronger than I was expecting. And I smoke NightCap and other strong choices often. I would put it in a similar category, but as one having less, but not bad flavor.

In contrast with English (more Latakia and Orientals than Virginia, orientals and Latakia dominant) and Balkan (more Orientals than Latakia and Virginia,Orientals dominant) in Scottish mixtures, Virginia is the dominant tobacco over the Orientals and contains little or no Latakia.

See my review in Peter Stokkbyee's "Balkan Supreme".

The taste of this mixture is so good,but the flavour is milder.

Whisky is noted mainly in the Blend, in the Tin, the tobacco, but much less in the smoke, bu noted. In the tin, the flavour is very good, bu the tobacco seems to be litle dried, not wet.

Not for people that enjoy Latakia, bu very good fot those that like natural aromatics. 3 Stars.