Vauen No. 20 Italian Blend

(2.64)
A well-rounded, complex mixture of black and brown Cavendish, a good portion of Burley, various sun-ripened Virginia varieties and naturally sweet broken Virginia. This mixture is enriched with an exclusive and highly aromatic espresso taste. This nuanced, deep tobacco delights connoisseurs with the highest demands.
Notes: Formerly named "Horst Lichter Kollektion Espressotabak TAB 20". The television chef and rhenish bon vivant Horst Lichter sure enough is one of the most prominent pipe smoker of Germany. He lends his name for several pipe models of the company Vauen. As a chef he knows what makes an excellent flavor. Therefore this Horst Lichter pipe tobacco was developed from a close collaboration with the television star. This way a mild creamy variety of medium strength which has a full bodied, yet not overly dominant note of sweetish espresso. (Horst Lichter is a TV chef that hosts various TV shows in Germany. As he's also a pipe smoker Vauen and Horst Lichter collaborated to create two personalized blends for him.)

Details

Brand Vauen
Blended By Vauen
Manufactured By Vauen
Blend Type Aromatic
Contents Black Cavendish, Burley, Virginia
Flavoring Coffee
Cut Ribbon
Packaging 50 grams tin
Country Germany
Production Currently available

Profile

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

Average Rating

2.64 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 18, 2016 Medium to Strong Mild to Medium Mild Tolerable to Strong
This was my fourth and likely last attempt to find a coffee flavored tobacco. So far, the previous three have all failed to produce much coffee taste.

The initial aroma was horrible. Something akin to damp rotting fruit. If it was supposed to be espresso, it would have to be some kind of latte buried under a gallon of sick fruit syrup.

Well it took about an hour to light. I guess whatever they topped it with was also fire retardant. There was an unpleasant tongue bite that surprised me since it didn't seem 'that' strong, and once again, there was nothing here to remind me of coffee. It was just bitter and gross and reminded me of some cheap crap they sell in those 5lb bags at the gas station.

In the end, it may be best to just make a great cup of coffee with your favorite tobacco.
PurchasedFrom: smokingpipes.com
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 08, 2013 Mild Mild Mild Pleasant
A friend of mine bring me a 50g tin(price12.5euro),from Germany.It's a high quality aromatic tobacco.Aroma is mild as you open the tin and taste is mild too.No tongue bite at all till the end of the bowl.Taste is the same from the start to the end.I was expecting it more aromatic but the tobacco quality is so high that i don't mind at all.Burns extremely well without residues at the end.
Pipe Used: briar
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 21, 2019 Medium Medium to Strong Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
Vauen's got some hits and misses, but i think this is one of the hits.

Comes fairly moist in the tin and will need some drying. The tin note is.... well, pretty much what you'd expect from an espresso-aromatic. It's a note of sweet, caramel-y coffee.

Once you put a light to it, you'll get a nice, straightforward aromatic smoke. There's a hint of nut from the burley and some creamy smoothness from the cavendish, while the virginia stays very much background, overruled by the fairly prominent flavouring.

Speaking of which, the flavouring is much like the tin note. Sweet, creamy, coffee-like. There's not much complexity to it, but i like it. Which is suprising, considering i really, really dislike coffee flavours, normally. This blend makes it all work nicely, i find.

I'm also quite happy to report that unlike some other Vauen aromatics, this one actually burns fairly cleanly and, most importantly, the flavouring does -not- taste completely artificial/chemical.

In the second half of the bowl, the flavouring drops off a fair bit, but is happily replaced by the nutty and slightly grassy notes of the burley and virginia.

It does need more relights than i'd like, but in exchange, i found this tobacco to be incredibly resistant to harshness or biting. It doesn't mind being smoked at a rate of knots.

Burns to a fine ash and doesn't leave much dottle behind. Some moisture, but not a massive amount, either.

It's fairly straightforward, but it does what it sets out to do, and it does it well.
Pipe Used: Various briars
PurchasedFrom: Cigarworld.de
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 20, 2019 Mild to Medium Medium Medium Very Pleasant
I bought a tin of this at my local pipe and cigar store back in January, smoked a bowl or two and moved on to something else. I believe it was the last tin they had and I was curious. The tin label had the gentleman himself on the front with his pipe and some large coffee beans up front. This one also squeaked past the inspectors because it had no warning label not that I think the tin is that old. The tobacco is extremely moist with a strong cocoa/chocolate smell. I could not really detect any coffee. It smokes very well and definitely has a pleasant chocolate taste. As coincidence would have it, my coffee beans delivery arrived while I was smoking outside on the front porch and the driver said this blend smelled really good. I talked to him for a few minutes, he tried a pipe a long time ago and I told him if he was ever interested to stop by and join our pipe club meetings, we have weekly.
Pipe Used: Meerschaum
Age When Smoked: New
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 03, 2019 Mild Medium to Strong Medium Very Pleasant
A very perplexing blend. Many flavors combine to make a smoke that's difficult to describe.

Black Cavendish, Burley & Virginia make up the leaf end of things but the toppings mask all but the BC. Chocolate, Cream(vanilla?)&Coffee are advertised as the toppings but not one stands out. I don't get Coffee at all. However, it's a melange that for me really works.

This is quickly becoming a #1 for me. As with all Vauen blends the tobacco quality is 1st class. It behaves well, no dottle, lites right up and doesn't bite no matter how hard I push it. If you're looking for Coffee, brew a cup. There's none here. Still a 4 star blend.

CDM Jr.
Pipe Used: Peterson Christmas 2017 408
PurchasedFrom: tobaccopipes.com
Age When Smoked: 1 hour dry time.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 25, 2018 Mild to Medium Medium Medium Very Pleasant
Remember McClelland tastemaster from their premium aromatic line? Miss it? Want something even better? Well here you go!

Dark chocolate galore, even the room note will linger for ages, noticed by everyone but the smoker, who will be chocolated out.

About as bite free as any aromatic I have ever smoked.

Coffee is present but barely noticeable amidst the cocoa topping, which is delicious!

This may be the best chocolate aro I have smoked to date, and will be a regular purchase for me.

Most chocolate aromatics are either sticky, goopy, have poor leaf, no taste, bite, crackle, lr some other problem. Not this one! It is the best quality, fine flavor, and has no bite. Even has a mild nicotine presence.

I am primarily a smoker of english blends, but always looking for the perfect aromatic for evenings. This may be the best chocolate aromatic ever made.
Pipe Used: Misc
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 28, 2016 Medium Medium to Strong Full Strong
By opening the tin your are greeted by the full smell of coffee and a dark, cavendisch based mixture. The tobacco comes perfectly smokable out of the tin and it really holds it´s promise of coffee taste. But it is not the fancy latte machiatto but a full bodied, roasted espresso with bitterness and a little sweetness here and there and that taste is consistent through the bowl. Recomended if you like coffee...
Pipe Used: various
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 13, 2013 Mild Mild to Medium Mild Pleasant
I gave this a whirl a while ago and was not too impressed. To me, coffee taste is best left for coffee not tobacco. The tobacco itself is quite a good blend, just needs something other than a try at coffee flavoring for the topping. Not recommended.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 04, 2013 Extremely Mild Extremely Mild Extremely Mild (Flat) Pleasant
Horst Lichter of "Espressotabak" was my second experience with imported tobaccos, but I think it was very mild in this case I cannot say, anyway, that this pipe tobacco is not recommended. This blend is highly recommended for begginers, and for that most experts smokers, this tobacco is somewhat recommended, but, i can say this is a good tobacco for any time.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 16, 2012 Extremely Mild Medium to Strong Extremely Mild (Flat) Pleasant
I had high hopes for this one but what a dissapointment. There is no real coffee aroma or flavor here, in fact it directly reminded me of Dan Tobacco's Blue note with that disgusting melange of hickory nut-vanilla-fruit casing. Despite my distaste for it, Blue note is a superior aromatic especially in flavor. This on the other hand is rather flat. Comprising I would say over 60% to 70% air cured style black cavendish with the other lighter color blond elements ie virginia, burley and all together rather too moist out of the tin.
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