Hearth & Home Slice O' Gold

This unique tobacco smells wonderful upon opening the tin, like a nice almost oriental sweet and sour sauce. You will find flaky, moist, crumbly, multicolored clumps of brown and gold tobacco waiting for your pipe. Crumbling some in it takes a bit to get going and will easily go out in the beginning but once lit burns nicely. Now for the smoking taste experience. Here's where there is a bit of a let down. There's nothing objectionable here but also nothing special. I don't taste much in this offering but a slightly sweet and mild and nicely smooth Virginia. The Burley and Kentucky are there but and certainly give a bit of body but don't seem to offer much in the way of flavor. The finish is very clean and doesn't linger while the intensity slightly increases as you go through the bowl. The aroma of the smoke exhibits the same qualities of smell as the tin aroma. It's very nice. Slice O' Gold has a bit of mild Virginia tongue tingle but no actual bite to it so I can see how those who appreciate it's flavor could smoke a lot of this. Those who like their "vitamin N" will receive a decent but not overpowering dose. For me however it has little to offer so after a few tries I'll put it away again and try it again in a few months. While not perhaps my style it is of high quality and does deserve three stars and I can see it being a four star tobacco for many others.