Sutliff Tobacco Company Roma Vita
(3.00)
Perfect after dinner smoke. A taste of Rome! Smooth and aromatic.
Details
| Brand | Sutliff Tobacco Company |
| Series | Sutliff Private Stock |
| Blended By | Carl McCallister |
| Manufactured By | Sutliff Tobacco Company |
| Blend Type | Aromatic |
| Contents | Burley, Virginia |
| Flavoring | Amaretto, Vanilla |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | 1.5 ounce can |
| Country | United States |
| Production | No longer in production |
Profile
Strength
Mild
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Mild to Medium
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Reviews
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| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 2013 | Mild | Mild to Medium | Mild | Very Pleasant |
A mild aromatic with a pleasant amaretto topping, and light vanilla subtext provided by the black cavendish. The Virginia is underplayed, adding a light grass note or two. The burley chips in with a little nutty flavor. Has very little nicotine. Won't bite, but can get warm on the tongue. Thinly cut so it burns well, but don't puff it like a freight train. Has a consistent flavor, and leaves just a little moisture in the bowl. Needs an average number of relights. It has a very nice aftertaste, and while it is designed to be an after dinner smoke, it's also good as your all day companion while you go about your business.
-JimInks
-JimInks
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 09, 2021 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Mild to Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
Roma Vita is the sixth of six Sutliff Private Stock aromatic blends that never left my show table in four consecutive seasons and I'm trying to find out why that is. Some of these six blends were dark, damp, overly odorized and stuck to their tin bottoms; Old Vienna, St. George's Blend and Spinaker. Some were more bright, drier, somewhat less odorized and had clean tin bottoms; Country Estate and County Cork. Roma Vita is like a hybrid between the two categories; only somewhat dark, only moist, odorized and stuck to the tin bottom. The tin opening revealed a chocolatey brown mixture with little color range in a finer rubbed-out cut that was a little drier than the norm for these six tins. My sniff test was something like that of reviewer ZoNoMo 2014-09-30; tobacco, alcohol and coffee? I let a spread-out wad of this blend sit all night. The next morning it had settled down to a smokable state and the aroma was now more like chocolate and tobacco. A few days later, the tin aroma was of amoretto. A few days later than that, the aroma was gone. Now, we are at the base blend; a well behaved middle of the road VaBur. As long as it retained its amoretto aroma, everything was okay and I enjoyed the upper portion of the smoke. Once the amoretto went bye-bye, everything reversed and I consistently enjoyed the bottom of the smoke to a greater degree. Somewhat mild for a VaBur, I still like the blend and used it successfully in micro blending. Although I'm not writing home about it, I still recommend it at three stars. As to why they didn't sell; they all have one thing in common. None were smokable at the tin opening and all required airing-out times of long duration; some for prodigious amounts of time. I don't think the modern younger pipe smoker wants to put up with all that fuss.
Pipe Used:
Ashton ELX Brindle billiard
PurchasedFrom:
an Ebay seller
Age When Smoked:
unknown, but about ten years old
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Mar 12, 2012 | Mild | Mild | Mild | Pleasant |
This is very nice. It uses a shag cut and required a lot of drying out, but after that, it burned well and was pretty tasty. About 15% dottle. I think the casing is port or burgundy wine. It is burley, so it can bite if you're not careful.
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