Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Glengarry Flake

Nice dark flake with veins of lighter tobacco has pleasant aroma after sweet hay, grass and floral toping. My sample was at right moisture level. Burns on few relights till end. Toping smelled like rum, some flowrs and maybe honey. One of the best lakelands tobacco out there. Definitely not all day smoke. Too heavy even nic hit is almost nothing. Two stars only beacuse this tobacco is not for everyone.

Gawith Hoggarth Glengarry Flake - A bright Virginia flake that’s grassy with citrus and toasty bread and some dark fruit . The first couple of puffs remind me honeysuckle . What tastes like a light liqueur topping . Very creamy . A very light lakeland flowery topping that’s doesn’t bother me at all . Kind of pleasant actually. Still very similar to OGS . A summer type smoke . Very light on nicotine . Good smoke , I like it . Solid 3

Just like the description says, Glengarry Flake provides a mild, sweet, gently aromatic smoke. For a pure virginia it does not bite. I rubbed out the 2oz I purchased and gave it a week to dry some. I don't pack tight as it's still a bit moist and smoke with care. I can't say I really can taste the virginia as the flavouring is the main player. But it's really pleasant. Smokes well all the way down (I always smoke all the tobacco) and doesn't really evolve. It's just a nice smoke. I am definitively buying again?

I bought this tobacco to try to ferret out the "Lakeland Essence". I did not really get any distinguishing aromas from the tin note, it was pleasant but nothing overpowering by any means. I rubbed out the flake and let it air dry for 15 minutes or so. It packed well, lit well, and burned well...all the way to the bottom with nothing but gray ash left. I was smoking this in a smallish WDC billiard with a "Hesson Guard" while refurbishing a pre-republic Peterson Shamrock 265 small canadian. The reason I mention this is because I tend to forget to puff...not second nature to me yet and the work distracts me a bit. I did have to relight a few times, but this tobacco was much more forgiving than some other tobaccos. I kept it burning quite well. It was a pleasant smoke with no tongue bite whatever. I detected a slight "essence" but could not pinpoint the flavor. No strong soapy or floral flavors or aroma. I guess I will have to try a stronger "Lakeland" tobacco. A very pleasant smoke, but nothing over the top.

As expected with G&H flakes, this stuff packs, lights, and smokes like a dream. I’ve only found it in bulk in the US, so it comes in full-length flakes, not cut down for tinning. It’s a pure Virginia blend that G&H calls “similar” to Bright CR Flake.

Glengarry starts with a small blast of Lakeland floral essence, and settles into a high quality VA smoke. Early, it is very light, but by 1/4 bowl the stronger flavor picks up. I had to smoke some in a meer before reviewing so I could be remind myself that the faint floral flavors weren’t just ghosts, but they are there.

The trouble with Glengarry is that it’s too much essence for someone who hates that flavor, and not enough for someone who loves it. There’s not enough topping to use it as training wheels for Lakeland style flavors. Folks who hate granny perfume should be smoking Bright CR Flake, they’ll like it better. Folks who like the Lakeland flavors or want to start out with them should be smoking Kendal, Coniston, Bosun, or just go for the jugular with Ennerdale. I happily smoked several ounces of Glengarry, but I’d almost always reach for something stronger in a Lakeland or a pure VA with no essence.

Glengarry makes for an excellent introductory Lakeland flake. There is a definite emphasis on the honey and sweet spices over the floral flavor, but some of that Lakeland perfume will come through.

The flakes are on the thick side, moist enough to fold but not wet, and they rub out easily. The flavor is wonderfully consistent throughout the bowl. The nicotine is medium, or mild to medium.

Glengarry will ghost a pipe a little - if you want the taste out, some time with alcohol and pipe cleaners is in your future. It's not as difficult as something like Ennerdale to get out, but probably is better left to cobs or dedicated Lakeland pipes until you know whether or not it works for you.

It's an acquired taste, I think. I used to wonder if I was strange for liking Lakeland tobacco, but having seen people smoke straight tire-fire Perique and uncut Latakia, maybe a little floral essence isn't that strange.

This tobacco is one of a large number of flakes recently received by myself in an attempt to widen my palette to aromatics. It started off very promising. This was above all the bulk flakes I have received in terms of its presentation. Many of the other bulk flakes arrived a bit broken & falling into parts, but this was just a perfect series of straight, strong, massive bulk flakes. Very, very attractive presentation, perfect hues of the tobacco & impeccably formed structure. A pleasing to the eye combination of dark Virginia (most prominent) speckled with little bursts of bright tobaccos in there as well. The pouch note was also quite pleasant, the tobacco could be noted, but there was a definite sweetness there, above and beyond the Virginia, I can sense the honey notes mentioned, with perhaps a slightly souring (although pleasant) whisky backnote. I had to cut the flakes into approximately one-thirds, as this was about the max that my pipes could accommodate, to my delight, these flakes remained solid even when sliced (widthways - I didn't just tear a strip off the bottom). This needed to be rubbed fairly well, as with most bulk flakes, I found that leaving more than a few bits of broken flake in amongst the rubbed out strands made it very difficult to keep lit, but properly rubbed out & packed with care, it burns fairly easily (mine was not too damp & somewhat aged when I got it). Smoking it at first, I found it a little bitey & harsh, but when I adjusted my cadence, it calmed down. With a combination of breath smoking & occasional retrohaling, I got the most out of this tobacco. The tobacco was good, and the topping built up from moderate at the beginning of the bowl, to dominant in the middle, and fading out again towards the end. The tobacco is of good quality (something that is hard to find in aromatics generally), and the topping is a generally pleasant sweetness, with zingy little hits of sourness. The room note is pleasant to tolerable in my opinion. It all sound very positive, no? Well, actually, no. Although when smoked with the adequate preparation and care, this can be quite pleasant tasting and cool, one small error, and you'll either be relighting constantly, or have a bowl hotter than the sun. For the first ounce of this, I thought of this as a one star tobacco, possibly going up to 3 when I had learned the method. To me, however, pipe smoking should be about - primarily - relaxation and ease. Even when prepared properly, one has to concentrate a bit too much on this one for my liking. We all know that one has to learn to smoke a pipe, but my learning was done a long time - and many smokes - ago, and I don't appreciate being made to learn all over again to accommodate just this one blend. I am a fair man, though, and given that I have in my time on this site up to this point, only ever given a one-star rating on one occasion, I cannot give this a one-star score (it's miles better than 'Clan'). On that basis, I'll give it a 2-star rating, if you can figure out how to smoke it & it's a regular in your rotation, I can see why you probably love it. For me, the reward doesn't justify the effort. As other have mentioned as well, it also gave me a fairly rough throat on several occasions (this may be because I still haven't figured out the entirely best way to smoke it - but it doesn't inspire in me the desire to explore any further). Try it, by all means, but I won't be buying it again.

Glengarry Flake;

Star Rating = 3.25;

Rating Scores - 10 is the Best and 0 is the Worst;

Pouch Note = 9;

Room Note = 9;

Flavor = 8;

Bite = 8;

Burn = 9;

After Taste = 9;

Raw Score = 52;

Rated Percentage = 87%;

Comment = Very Smooth, Very Mild, light Fruity honey dew sort of Flavor, slight After Taste.

To me, this flake is almost pure Virginia for me. The smell of the flake is very gentle, not too many aromas I could detect from the smell alone.

A very mild casing was done her I am guessing... some faint hints of honey for sure, and maybe just maybe some fruity jams. An all day smoke, but I prefer FVF after it has been dried for a few hours.