Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Plug

Same Like Full Virginia Flake Just Lovely Plug, Super Nice Neutral Tobacco Aroma. High Quality Virginia Tobacco With Great Smell.. Highly Recommended but not for Beginners

Appearance. Of course, there was no production date on the sealed bag. However, the excise stamp indicated Q3 2016, and the DHS warnings were consistent with the 2014-2017 period, so I'm pretty sure the tobacco in the pack was over five years old. The packet contained one small bar the color of bitter chocolate with occasional flecks of straw hue. The bar was very well compressed, and it would take a very sharp knife to cut it. Regarding preparing it for smoking, there are several ways to go about it. Some people cut the bar into slabs, then take them apart by hand. Some use a tobacco grinder to shred the tobacco. Some chop it into small cubes of a couple of millimeters and then put them in the bowl without pressing it. I prefer the first method - thin slicing with a knife and then hand-cutting. This gives me a chance to appreciate the moisture content of the tobacco and enjoy the flavor.

The flavor of this blend leaves no doubt that you're looking at a harvest of excellent Virginia - and nothing more. No flavorings, no topping, no maple syrup to glue the leaf. A lovely bread aroma, with hints of baked fruit and a little bit of sweet meadow flowers. The woody note is almost imperceptible.

The tobacco also has a very high quality Virginia taste. However, as with any pure Virginia blend, you have to smoke the pipe extremely slowly to experience it. This, by the way, is another problem that a beginner encounters: if the pipe is poorly packed, the blend goes out quickly. You have to either light it again or light the pipe more intensively, and the magic of Virginia taste disappears and the tobacco becomes bitter or may bite your tongue, though Full Virginia Plug is a more "friendly" blend in this respect than most Virginia blends. If the pipe is well-filled, the tobacco smokes extremely slowly, coolly and evenly, giving off a wonderful taste that consists of notes of sweet but not sugary baked fruit, a drop of floral honey, and fresh bread. Towards the middle of the pipe a slight woody flavor also appears which pleasantly completes the overall picture. The strength of the tobacco is medium or even slightly lower, but due to the slow smoking tobacco gives nicotine very well. The tobacco burns into a light gray ash, leaving a bit of moisture in the pipe. I also noticed that in bentas the woody note in the flavor appears much later and is almost absent in the aftertaste, leaving only sweetness.

The smoke from the blend is almost weightless, but very distinctive by its odor, although it wears off very quickly and does not irritate those around you.

What is the result? Excellent tobacco, in all respects, except for one thing - it's not for the novice. I highly recommend to try Full Virginia Flake first before trying this one on your own. Fans of mixed blends may even find these two tobaccos boring. Well, the more we get...

Some say it's dull...to me it's pure. No nasty chemistry going on. Creamy smooth smoke. Nicotine is there but not heavy. Smells abit cigarette like in the room .it's just honest. You know your getting high quality leaf. There's not much to not like here. It won't send you on a taste Sensation journey...but for a non nonsense smoke this takes some beating

Samuel Gawith FVF (Full Virginia) Plug Pipe Tobacco is the plug uncut version of Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake.

While some found the tinned Samuel Gawith flakes a little moist and heavily compacted, this stunning plug is dryer and little less compacted, making it cooler and one of the easiest plugs to smoke. Full Virginia plug is hot pressed to take the hot edge off the Virginia leaves.

In a word, the plug uncut version burns slower and is fuller, more sugary, cooler and smoother than Full Virginia Flake. Leaving with a pleasant aftertaste and with no tongue bite, this blend of Virginias can be enjoyed at any time of day or night.

But it needs more breathing time. I cut it into thin flakes then put them into a mason jar for couple days. And it is not working if you put it on a paper airing for ten to twenty minutes or in a spare tin for eight to twelve hours, which just decrease the moisture condition and the moisture condition is perfect from the new tin.

The Summary:

Samuel Gawith FVF (Full Virginia) Plug

Contents - Virginia

Flavouring - None

Cut - Plug

Origin - Kendal, England

Tasting Notes:

Strength - Medium

Flavouring - None Detected

Taste - Medium

Room Note - Pleasant to Tolerable

FvF is great and this plug version is the same stuff uncut. It stores very well in this state which is a solid mass heavily pressed and oily looking. If you need a tobacco that will travel well then this is a beauty. For myself the attraction was novel value at first however as others have noted this one burns sweeter.

I like to slice a flake or two about 2 to 3 mm thick and dry it for an hour(juice depending) until it has curled up a bit on the chopping board. I then use a weed grinder( A plastic device with two halves which are round and one rotates inside the other with many pyramid shaped closed spaced teeth) The result is the now tacky flake will break by hand into smaller bits and you can load a small amount into the grinder at a time. Once ground the tobacco is in very small chunks and will load light and bun with ease a perfect consistency to achieve best burn and taste and with the minimum fuss. I do believe that plug is worth the effort and that FvP is an excellent tasty and smooth sweet easy smoke.

This is one hella spicy tobacco. Think white pepper and lots of it. To me it tasted like wet plaster and that continued right down to the final third of the bowl where it became bearable. Oddly enough I found it a very satisfying bowl. I prefer a hint of Lakeland essence and this has none. The plug cut easily and rubbed out to a sticky broken flake and the moisture was goldilocks. I don't think I would buy again because I found it way too one dimensional. If I want spice then I prefer a VaPer as I'm not really a fan of white pepper. I guess it will make the straight Virginia fans happy.