Peterson Early Morning Pipe

Really enjoyed this blend for the mornings, or anytime during the day. You gotta be in the mood for it - it's got a sharpness to it. Smells great in the tin, and tastes delicious. Mild, toasty, sweet hay, easy smoke. Left a slightly sweet taste in my mouth as an aftertaste which is not a bad thing! Fine white ash in the bowl. Room note is slightly on the cigarette smelling side, however. Can get a tad bitter - but mostly good sweet and tangy tobacco smoke.

Dunhill Nightcap is one of my favorite tobaccos, so I've been anticipating this blend for a few weeks now. Tin notes, leather, raisin, and pear brandy(?) - some kind of fruit sweetness with an alcohol/phenol bite at the end. Faint smokiness, and big bready/yeasty strawlike compounds.

Initial char, hey... where did the brandy go? I'm getting rye bread with lots of caraway seeds, roasted marshmallow, and as I work my way through to midbowl, a strange nasal curry spice, like fenugreek or brown mustard with lemon. It's really good. I'm also getting a little burley burp, but that's probably more because I went straight to a bowl of this instead of coffee and breakfast. There is a slight spice, and a slight smoky flavor, but I'm still getting mostly a very subdued English flavor from this tobacco. Room is roasted marshmallow and fruit brandy.

At the bottom of the bowl, the phenolic sweet flavor got a bit more intense, that is to say, I could actually taste it. Everything started to come together wrapped up in a neat little bow, but then I started tasting burned maple and realized I had sadly hit the bottom of my new cob.

All in all, the tin description of "delicately flavoured" is spot on. I'm surprised how prevalent the "rye bread" notes were, that's pretty much exactly what I thought of Nightcap, however Early Morning Pipe was much more subdued and mellow, and the topping (if there even is any) was so mild that I really didn't even taste it until the last 3rd of the bowl. I was half expecting to hear Edvard Grieg's Morgenstimmung as I puffed this morning, but nope, just a good tobacco and landscapers trimming my hedges at 7:15am.

Been smoking this pretty regularly for a very long time (first tin in the late 70s). The blending notes always, until the switch to Orlik, included latakia. i don't care what anyone says, there's still some in every batch. Regardless, still good at any time of the day. I'm a sucker for light English, oriental forward blends and this does very well. As others have noted, it can get a bit bitter towards the end (last fifth) of the bowl if smoked in anything larger than a mid-sized pipe.

Summary: a sweet English blend with less of a Latakia blend and more presence of Orientals, with the Virginias leading.

Dunhill tobaccos are known for their elegance and simplicity, and this blend benefits by showcasing its powerful sweet and rich Virginias but using slightly less Latakia than a full English with a higher proportion of Orientals, giving it a sweet-sour taste with the smoky Latakia backing that up. With the characteristic thin cut and perfect moisture balance for which Dunhill blends are known, "Early Morning Pipe" lights magnificently and burns evenly. As the bowl goes on, the Latakia flavors become more pronounced but also less acidic, bringing out more of the smoky taste than a tangy one. The Virginias caramelize and meld, becoming less sugary and more like honey bread with lemon, upon which the Orientals continue to build, making the mixture more tangy and addictive over time. Many combinations of these flavors appear in ephemeral form, barely grasped before they are gone and not forgotten but reduced to vague impression like waking after a dream.

This is a very pleasant low content latakia blend.it has all the quality standards of dunhill blends.nice cut,right moisture,easy to pack and light.burns cool and slow, won't bite if you go hard.virginias taste perfect with sweet notes,grass and citrus.latakias aren't dominant and offer camp fire and sweet wood notes.an all day blend to me,pleasant room note a must try to get into light english blends!

I would like to thank you all for your reviews. I have purchased about 15 different 1 oz blends to try and saw this one recommended to explore the English blends. Here is some background to make reviews more meaningful, I wish we had some fields for it as it seems very reasonable that new smokers who are new to pipes may have some general trends in preference that differ from people who have smoked pipes for as long as I have been alive.

Background: I am 46, have newly taken up pipe smoking and have only otherwise smoked a few cigars (perhaps 20 or so ever). I would estimate that this is my 11 or so pipe bowl total (not just for this blend).

Impressions, Purchased one Oz baggie, was dryer than other blends I have gotten but not *completely* dried out, I don't yet have a sense for what the preferred humidity norms are. I found this blend flat and kind of boring. Other than when I breathed out (clean) air through my nose, I couldn't detect the latakia at al, it IS there ... but barely. Otherwise I found the taste to be mild tobacco, but otherwise kind of boring and un interesting. For context, I liked 1Q but it had only a little taste, but was pleasant and very slightly sweet. I liked Longbottom Leaf from JFH even more because it was similar, just with the volume *slightly* turned up. This EMP was in no way unpleasant in taste or room note, but it seemed like smoking to be smoking. I'm wondering if my addition to spicy food has left me tongue deaf! ALso, its too bad this site doesn't (seem) to have a forum for exchanging tobaccos that we have tried and do not prefer.

Well....as a new piper this is about my 10th tobacco. I had already decided English blends are my thing. I thought this would be a little lighter than mm and London mixture and certainly it was, perhaps too far. Lovely pack and burn. No relights. But..... An almost cigarette room note and smoke. I packed it more heavily thereafter. A better result but still some mild disappointment. I shan't reinvest in a tin, back to a heavier blend.

One good thing about a lock-down is that it gives you a lot of time to go through your tobaccos and smoke them as if stress never was invented.

MP is good. You notice as soon as you light up and taste hay and citrus and freshness.

The tin promises enjoyment, it smells so good and balanced and of orientals.

It can be packed quite tightly, must be in order to keep it lit all the time.

The first puffs are light, the peppery smokiness is only in the nose if you retrohale.

As you progress the smoke becomes heavier, smokier and spicier. The taste intensifies. I suppose that's why it's called early morning pipe: it gradually wakes up with you.

It's medium to strong, stronger as the bowl gets emptier. Likewise its taste develops from medium to strong.

No flavouring other than the orientals.

The man who sold me the tobacco said that the smoke would keep the mosquitoes away. He clearly didn't care for MP. I quite like it's smoke, tolerable is say.

It delivers what it promises. Highly recommendable.

Early Morning Pipe is a blend that is supposed to be on the mild side, smoked as the first bowl of the day. Thus, this will not be a heavy English; not even a medium English, which is why this review should be examined from what it is supposed to be: mild, and that, it is.

This blend is slightly oriental forward, offering those typical woody, sour, yet subtly sweet notes from the Orientals, while the mixture of red and bright Virginias offer the bed upon which the orientals sit. The Virginias are musty and earthy, with a hint of grassy citrus notes coming here and there from the brighter Virginias. There is hardly, if any, Latakia in there, but I would say that there is a touch, giving the blend a touch of smoke, bringing everything together. About halfway down the bowl, the Orientals smoke a bit sharper, which can lead to a bit of harshness depending on your cadence and how you are smoking it.

The Dunhill ribbon cut is phenomenal, leading to a very easy pack and light. Further, their moisture from the tin is nearly perfect. The controversial nicotine level from this tobacco is somewhere just above mild, I did not notice any effects, really.

Overall, this blend does what it is supposed to do. For me, I found it only a bit harsh and sharp directly from the tin, which could improve some with age, but an enjoyable smoke for the morning or when a very mild English is in order.

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Update 04/25/2018: Aging this tobacco helps greatly. I lit up a bowl of a tin that I opened at the end of August 2017, and even this short amount of time served to mellow the blend in the areas I described as "harsh" before. Possibly deserves to be bumped up a star...