Peterson Elizabethan Mixture

(3.04)
Notes: Elizabethan Mixture was launched by Dunhill and made in London until production was transferred to sister company Murray and Sons in 1981. It was made in Belfast until new owners BAT closed the Murray factory in 2005. Dunhill's Elizabethan combines pressed, darkened Virginias with a dose of perique (all ribbon-cut) to create an easy-to-enjoy blend with a tangy character and a bit of pepper spice. Elizabethan has been made since its 2013 reintroduction by STG after being unavailable since 2005, firstly under the Dunhill brand and now as a Peterson product after Dunhill withdrew their brand from the pipe tobacco market.

Details

Brand Peterson
Blended By Dunhill
Manufactured By Scandinavian Tobacco Group
Blend Type Virginia/Perique
Contents Perique, Virginia
Flavoring
Cut Ribbon
Packaging 50 grams tin
Country Denmark
Production Currently available

Profile

Strength
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

3.04 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 26, 2014 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant
Parlons aujourd’hui de l’Elisabethan Mixture de la maison Dunhill. J’ai découvert le Périque avec ce tabac et qui me donne aujourd’hui l’opportunité autant que le plaisir de vous écrire ces quelques mots. A l’ouverture ; la couleur du mélange est plutôt homogène avec une belle couleur marron rehaussée de quelques brins un peu plus foncés. L’odeur est agréable, aucun arôme particulier ne s’en dégage si ce n’est une odeur de Virginia subtilement poivrée. La coupe très fine pour un tabac à pipe nous rappelle celui du Scaferlati, rendant le bourrage aisé même dans les petits foyers que j’affectionne pour ma part plus particulièrement. Les brins de tabacs ne sont pas très humides à l’ouverture, et nécessitent qu’un faible temps d’aération pour pouvoir être fumés. L’allumage ne pose, lui non plus aucun problème, et quant à la linéarité de la combustion, bien qu’un petit peu rapide par rapport à des tabacs dont la coupe est plus grosse, celle ci reste homogène et donne une cendre très fine et très blanche. Dès les premières bouffées les arômes du Virginia sont très présents et gouteux, que le Périque vient « assaisonner ». Je ne saurais pas dire quel pourcentage le mélange contient de Périque, cependant celui-ci me semble correctement dosé afin de venir renforcer le Virginia tout en lui donnant une petite touche poivrée qui me rappelle le poivre Sichuan. La fumée est généreuse, son goût tout en finesse. Loin du côté plat que je reproche le plus souvent aux 100% Virginia faiblement maturés, cette adjonction de Périque lui donne à mon sens à la fois du corps, et de l’esprit. Du corps pour ceux qui, comme moi, affectionnent un tabac un petit peu costaud dans la rondeur en bouche autant que dans sa force. De l’esprit parce que le Périque vient subtilement relever le Virginia et ainsi lui faire développer la totalité de son arôme tout en conservant sa principale caractéristique qu’est sa légèreté. Le fumage est régulier, et comme beaucoup de tabacs, le dernier tiers du bol se corse un peu où le côté poivré s’accentue nettement. Je trouve ce tabac très intéressant à plusieurs niveaux. En premier lieu, il n’est pas aromatique ce qui permet de bien sentir le Périque et donc de se faire une réelle opinion dessus, car un sauçage ou une aromatisation cache parfois les subtilités d’un tabac. Ensuite sa coupe fine facilite le bourrage, surtout pour un débutant, ou dans des foyers de faibles diamètres, ce qui est non négligeable tout en assurant une combustion parfaitement régulière. De plus c’est un tabac de force relativement moyenne qui se prête volontiers à un fumage de tous les instants de la journée. Enfin le Périque se faisant rare dans les mélanges que nous pouvons nous procurer ici en France, je trouve non seulement que cela peut être une belle découverte mais aussi une alternative à un full Virginia classique, pour ceux qui pensent que ces derniers manquent un petit peu de tonus. Le bémol, bien entendu, reste le tarif prohibitif de cette boite (Et c’est un peu mon cheval de bataille) qui ne permet pas à tous les fumeurs d’avoir l’opportunité d’en fumer tous les jours.
Pipe Used: Morel Zulu, Morel Dublin, Chacom Old Briar
PurchasedFrom: France
Age When Smoked: 1 year
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 17, 2019 Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
Peterson- Elizabethan Mixture

They have returned, now under the Peterson name, I unfortunately never tried the Dunhill version, but can surmise from others that minus age they are largely the same blend.

I am ecstatic that I finally tried this blend, since I opened the tin a few days ago I’ve only smoked this blend, just like the snake from jungle book I am hypnotized by this blend.

Elizabeth would be proud, the Virginia’s aren’t overly bright but deliciously bready, the darker Virginia’s add a nice layer of depth without overshadowing the brighter Virginia’s. The Perique in this one begins with a figgy smell, once lit it’s all spice, with a nice peppery tingle that on occasion will give me a sneeze or coughing fit.

The spice on the Perique is more pepper with a wasabi tingle. All components play well, the nicotine isn’t anything over the ordinary and it’s ready to smoke right out of the tin.

This tin was date 8/8/19, with age I can see the flavors melding more and sweetening.

4/4 stars
Pipe Used: Various cobs
PurchasedFrom: Tobaccopipes.com
Age When Smoked: 4 months
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 07, 2022 Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant
Based on my personal tastes, Elizabethan Mixture is the best VaPer I have ever tried. I personally find Elizabethan Mixture to be superior to other VaPers like Orlik Golden Sliced. But when you crack a tin of Elizabethan Mixture you'll see darker virginias and black perique. The tin note is addictive, giving off a sharp and pruny scent that gives you a good idea of what the blend tastes like. Elizabethan is on the darker side for VaPers, and this is most likely why I adore this blend. You can expect dark stewed fruits, moldering or decaying hay, breadiness, maltiness, and some sharp pepper in the taste. Elizabethan has an amazing retrohale where each note is enhanced and the perique tingles your nose. This blend has just enough sweetness, nicotine, and complexity to keep me interested throughout the smoke. This blend also packs and smokes perfectly. Simply put, it is a darker VaPer that has great mechanics and is delicious.
Pipe Used: Numerous
PurchasedFrom: Smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked: Fresh
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 18, 2017 Medium to Strong None Detected Medium to Full Pleasant
Presentation: It is always a pleasure opening a brand new tin of Dunhill. It is the elegance of the tin art and design, gently opening the decorative white tobacco paper, taking your first breath of the high quality tobacco that is hidden underneath, the anticipation of your first puff, and soothing calmness of your mind afterwards; the very foundation of pipe smoking. Elizabethan Mixture lives up to the Dunhill name.

Upon opening the tin, my first breath of the tin was an earthly, yet sweet aroma, with a hint of hazelnut, honey, molasses, and a ‘sweet bread’ smell from a Sunday morning bakery. I must have spent a good 5-10 minutes attempting to detect its components and enjoying the aroma.

Taste: Perfect to smoke the second you open the tin, lacks the moisture. An immediate, fresh taste of plums from the dark Virginias and the noticeable Perique were the first things I perceived. Then it is followed by the rich, somewhat creamy, dark earthly aroma embodied with the taste of fresh sweet bread and figs, but isn’t too sweet, no not at all. Difficult to describe, since I would consider it to be rather complex, it is more about the overall experience with this one.

Afterthoughts: I recommend smoking this on a brisk, Autumn night, while reading Patrick O'Brian’s “Far Side of the World”, watching “Master and Commander”, or other tales of the high seas or Napoleonic Wars. Perhaps admiring some fine art from the Renaissance or reading some English literature as well. Yes, sounds like a good night indeed. Just relax, slowly enjoy your pipe, and appreciate the many gifts of Western Civilization.
Pipe Used: Szabó Pipa
PurchasedFrom: https://www.danishpipeshop.com/
Age When Smoked: 0-1 year
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 20, 2017 Medium to Strong None Detected Medium to Full Very Pleasant
I highly recommend this blend!high quality tobacco,easy to pack and light,burning nicelly as all dunhill blends!.the virginias are dominant and very pleasan!it's a bit stronger than royal yacht(my favorite).
Age When Smoked: When opened!
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 24, 2009 Medium None Detected Medium Very Pleasant
UPDATE 9/10/13

Picked up a tin of the new Orlik version. The tin note was very close to the original but with less of the perique aroma. As for the smoking, the balance that was the hallmark of this fine blend is diminished. The sweetness provided by the lemon virginia is almost MIA and this, oddly enough, makes it seem like there is less perique. The Murrays wasn't loaded with this condiment but it was very noticeable, and it's much less so here. The darker VA taste is at the forefront, up and down the bowl. It's still a good tobacco but it's not Elizabethan... at least not as I remember a fresh tin to be, and certainly not like an aged tin of Murrays. I think I'll pass on this one. It's good but it doesn't bring anything special to the table.

ORIGINAL REVIEW 3/24/09

This one would be in my constant rotation - if I could find it!

Elizabethan is a blend that is well balanced... mild but very flavorful, not overdone on perique but enough there to notice, sweet but not cloying. This is one of what I call "genius blends". It's not my favorite because of its subdued and balanced nature - it doesn't scream "excitement". But its one of those blends I find myself going back to time after time when the hype of this or that new blend is overwhelming. Light and dark virginias play off one another with a whisper of perique in the background of the taste buds that becomes a wonderful room filling aroma of quality leaf. Balance is what this one is all about, and the balance smacks of absolute genius.

If you can find some, buy it. Hopefully some U.S distributor will pick this up soon!
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 14, 2004 Very Strong Extremely Mild Full Strong
By god, I love this blend. From the very first tin of it that I had and through the many that have elapsed my opinion of it has never varied. It is simply perfect and I do not think that the fact of my being a Shakespearian should be assumed to evoke a bias. This is said to be of the character of blends that were being packed into clays during the days when Will walked the earth(it's a shame, really, that it does not seem likely that the Bard was an enthusiast of the pipe in the days of its infancy). As far as I am concerned, if this was the smoking fare of those days of yore, then they might as well have just stoped there. Nothing that has come after holds a candle to Elizbethan.

From its perfect ribbon cut that will burn well but never hot, to its seemingly simple components that put to shame all of the presumed wizzardry of today's tobacco mavens, here is a blend that would, hands down, be my desert island choice--that and a pouch of the Prince.

What so greatly stands out for me in Elizabethan is the hearty portion of bright Virginia with golden and what seems like red to back it. Bright is most often assumed best not unleashed on the world without Latakia or Turkish to accompany it. I have never thought so and greatly enjoy the sooty herbalness of it as expressed here with only the slightest ammount of Perique to prop it up.

Well, that's done. I think it's time that I order another pound.



Regards,

A. Morley Jaques
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 03, 2020 Medium None Detected Medium Tolerable
As I suspected it would from my first bowl, this blend really grew on me. It has a way to do this to many pipers. I’d say it’s mostly all around medium with a medium full taste. I smoke heavy hitter nicotine blends and this is not one of them. But nic- wise there’s a little more than most average blends. Smooth, bite free, and smoky. Natural tobacco tastes. Bread and nuts. Develops deep notes to become chocolatey. Definitely an easy to smoke and enjoy vaper.

Once out of the tin for a day or two the profile becomes much more pleasant and that original antique like off note goes away and turns into a deep chocolate essence. Ccrreeaammyy ! Not very peppery. Although at first I was looking for more spice, I now love it for exactly how it is. Absolutely see why this is a favorite of many. Easily an all day smoke, and as a matter of fact , I have been liking it so much, I seem to pack two in a row ! It’s very easy on the palate, good aftertaste, and it’s satisfying , but it’s not tiring. Good stuff! This could possibly become my favorite, and that’s after 15 years of smoking everything under the sun! 4 stars !
Pipe Used: Sms meerschaum
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 15, 2019 Medium Mild Full Tolerable
Summary: perhaps the best Va/Per ever created.

Virginia-Perique mixtures prove among the most popular and challenging, merging the alternately spicy and wine-like Perique with the zesty and tangy sizzle of bright Virginias (remember "Pop Rocks" when you were a kid?). Dunhill handles this by conditioning the Virginias expertly, both with pressing and some kind of faint honey-like topping that complements the native flavor of the leaf so well that you can barely detect it. Into this goes just enough Perique to give the leaf its famous fruity zing, kicking up the strength a half-notch as it does, and when these Virginias caramelize the Perique both takes a more dominant role (whip me, darling) and brings out its inner peppery, surly richness, making the Virginia mix taste more like an exotic molasses. Lightly seasoned with PG, this leaf burns easily and leaves a honey barbecue flavor in the mouth, suggesting that there might be a tad of Burley or dark fired leaf hiding in the bowl. With breath-smoking, this mixture has zero bite, smokes down to clotted light grey ash, and could be easily smoked all day without zonking you with nicotine or turning your mouth to human leather.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 01, 2014 Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
This is the third of the recently reintroduced blends that Dunhill has put out and I have since tried. And, to me, this is the best of the bunch. The tobaccos used in this blend are first rate all the way. Opening up the tin, you are seeing and smelling one fine looking blend. The tin note and taste are spot on with most of the other reviewers opinions and the moisture level is just right for me, YMMV on these points. It produces a nice amount of smoke. The nicotine level is a little on the high side, but I like that in a pipe full of tobacco. Will definitely be revisiting this one often. Highly recommended as soon as it is available in your neck of the woods.
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