Fribourg & Treyer Cut Blended Plug

The flakes are easy to pack and lights without problem. It offers a sweet cool and smooth smoke with somehow fruity flavors. I liked it smoking during day time with a cup of tea or coffe. However it does not wake me up in the morning. As the tin descript?on says it is a light VA flake. I think the less nicotine VA lovers will like it a lot.

This 3 year aged tin has beautiful wide flakes, 2 abreast, brown and black in color. It's a true flake, unlike the "broken flake" description above. A little drying and a month of breathing is recommended for Cut Blended Plug to yield its wonderful sweet yet slightly sharp essence; it's never ashy or harsh. Smoke slowly for maximum flavor, cool pipes and no tongue bite. Taste is sweet and fruity, at the citrus end rather than figs and raisins, and is right up front. Even immature palates will get this right away. The tangy or sharp body rounds as you move down the bowl and becomes very smooth, with perhaps some black cherry if you're patient and paying close attention.

Kindly supplied by 4 noggins, discovered here on tobacco reviews, what would I do without this site ? A small shirt pocket sized tin, left me wondering how they manage to get 50g in such a small space, still, not to worry, nice dark flakes, a little on the dry side for my liking but not enough to warrant rehydration.

Rubbs out easily and burns with one match, ineresting start, not quite sure what I'm tasting, it's almost a if several flavours are trying to make themselves known all at once.

Quickly though, the tobacco settles down, and a fine virginia experience is on the way which lasts to the end of the bowl, just pure sweet virginia, if there are any toppings, they seem to dissipate quickly and I am left with an excellent quality tobacco with a very pleasant taste.

In time, I may or may not cellar some of this, but for the moment, I will keep a couple of tins on hand with a third one open. For pure virginia lovers......... well worth a try.

Another example of why Fribourg and Treyer is the champion of Virginia Flakes. This is a very nice, no nonsense tobacco. It comes in a charming little tin and is sliced into flakes which stick together in the tin.

This one is a two match light and burns very well. After 3 bowls of this stuff, I have had to relight my pipe once. The moisture content is perfect with leaving a flake out for about 10 minutes in the open air. The flavor is delightful, a mixture of citrus, cream, and flavor of oats weaving in and out. As the bowl progresses, it becomes a bit darker and stronger. I taste cinnamon and licorice in between the traditional Virginia flavors. I believe that there is some kind of mild casing on this, but it is almost non-existent and the flavor does not interfere with the tobacco. The room note is pleasant, sweet, and musty.

This, along with Cut VA Plug and Blackjack, represents the standard of what Virginia plugs and flakes should be to me. A wonderful tobacco, not monochromatic, highly recommended.

This is the second Virginia from Fribourg and Treyer that i have tried (the first being Cut Virginia Plug) and I am delighted with it. Heavier and sweeter than CVP, the best way I can find of describing CBP is that it is to the former as Marlin Flake is to Old Gowrie. Allowing, of course, for the differences between the Rattray and F and T styles. Flippantly, Marlin Flake Lite would just about sum it up. It smokes equally well folded up or rubbed out to any degree. My best results have come from a very slight breaking up of the flake.

European labeling laws are demanding. I remember a pouch of Mac Baren Scottish Mixture which declared it to be 79 percent tobacco and the rest `agents de saveur et de texture` - whatever those agents may have been. My palate is not very good at detecting perique, so I cannot on my own say whether CBP contains perique or not. However, one of the German websites asserts that CBP contains perique. Since the blend is manufactured in Germany now, that statement is more likely than not correct.

Whatever be the fact of the matter, anyone who likes Marlin Flake will very possibly find comparable virtues in CBP. Highly recommended.

Regretfully, I don?t have the time to review all of the tobaccos I have tried but I feel obligated to give a ?plug? to this plug. F&T CBP is a light to medium strength red VA that is tasty, mellow, toasty, bite free and with a subtle sweetness. In short, it is an excellent ?any time of the day? smoke. CBP also DGTs very well.

A cigarette is to be smoked. A cigar is to be enjoyed. A pipe is to be savored.

I rate this tobacco 9.95 out of 10.

If you are in search for a mild, easily managed, Virginia flake, with excellent flavor, you have found it here. My tin had no topping I could detect, just the scent of tobacco.

I love this in the morning, or afternoon with a cup of hot tea. It is a bit pricey, but I think it is worth it. It is fine stuff indeed.

This is a wonderfully sweet rich VA flake! It's easy to smoke, even if you're sloppy with your technique. It smokes well fully rubbed out or just jammed into the bowl.

It's supposed to be a flavored tobacco, but all I smell from the tin is the smell of tobacco. If this is topped, it's done in such a way as to just enhance the natural flavor of the tobacco.

I've dedicated my group 3 Dunhill prince to this blend and after smoking most of a tin it's become one of my favorite smokes, possibly my "desert island" smoke.

Highly recommended!

I found this Cut Blended Plug to be full strength virginia with perique flake.