Lane Limited 1-Q

Very pleasantly surprised with the sample i recieved yesterday.Will certainly be buying more in my next order to the US.

This is one of my all time favorite tobaccos. No bite, no harshness, excellent aroma and can be smoked all day or night long.

I did not care for this at all.. I found it to be harsh and bites bad. I got it at a local tobacco shop in Wichita, there are not many in town. The pipe smoker guy said 1-Q sales more that all the others in the shop. so I bought a ounce and brought it home to try. I might be to new to catch all the little things of the tobacco but I got a hard bite of dirt taste or mouth, it was to strong and got no better as I smoked down the bowl. the room note was not that good it has a smell of cheep cig's ashy kind of. once again I could be to new to like this tobacco and need to grow in to it, I have read on here and other sites that sometimes that happens. maybe in 6mo I'll try a few more bowls the 5 or so I have tried in the last week I did not like even a little

This was my very first pipe tobacco. I bought it at The Tinder Box in 1990 and they call it Wilshire. I Like the taste and smell, but it just doesn't have enough kick in it for me anymore. Yet, somehow I keep going back to it.

1Q has to be the very best perfume puffing tobacco in existance. This is a high quality aromatic blend that will not bite. The flovor is mostly tobacco with some swetnesss coming from the flavoring. Speaking of the flavoring, I have no idea what it is or even how to describe it. I can tell you that the smell of smoldering 1Q is what pops in peoples minds when they think of a pipe. Especially those who say they love the smell of a pipe. Don't beleive them, they love the smell of 1Q! Don't beleiveme, fill your pipe with a good Balkan mixture and ask um if they still love the smell of a pipe. I typically am of the opinion that, like cheese, the more foul the smell of the tobacco the better the flavor. 1Q is the exception to this rule. It is a high quality blend that gives perfume puffers a leg to stand on. What can I say, I like it!!!

Ok, I know everyone talks bad about 1Q. Here is the deal. I've had many aromatics and pretty much, they all seem about the same to me. I seem to return to this blend because it tastes a little better. I get better results smoking it out of smaller bowls. It seems like the taste lasts longer.

I've been smoking for about a year & I typically smoke full bodied Nicaraguan cigars, so no matter what I do, it seems to me that pipe smoke is always a little more mild. I've tried English blends and personally, they smell like campfire smoke & I can't smoke them indoors, which is why I moved to pipe (to smoke indoors). The 1Q blend I don't get a lot of positive comments on from spouse as far as aroma, but I like how it smells. It does not burn hot, at least it doesn't for me.

I get the sense that there is a group of people who want other people to think that there is "so much more" to pipe smoking outside of the typical aromatic blends you can get from your local shop. Personally, I think it's a lot of BS. There's no way pipe smoke has nearly the nicotine levels as cigar and cigarette smoke. I'm not sure it's supposed to.

I do get some wet dottle at the bottom of the bowl with 1Q, but I get those with other aromatics too. You dump it out and let your pipe dry for a few days. Run a pipe cleaner through it and let it sit. Viola!!

One of the most popular aromatics in the world, and the main ingredient in hundreds of 'house' blends at stores. love it or hate it, its good and cheap and widely available. 4 stars.

I love the vanilla aroma of this tobacco (my wife likes it too), but I find the taste a bit too mild for my preference.

More than anything else, I wanted to comment on another reviewer's (HoopleHead) remarks, not only regarding 1Q, but also similar blends that are sold in bulk by Lane or Altadis.

1Q is a good blend, particularly for new pipe smokers and can stand quite well on it's own merits. But using such blends as 1Q, BCA, RP-6, Black Cavendish and the like, to mix with English or Balken blends has a lot of merit as well. I've been doing for several years and will be the first to admit if I find 1 blend in 5 that you might say is a "keeper", I'm doing well. But it only takes a small amount of tobacco to produce a "trial" blend and I can almost always tell from only one or two bowls if I've hit upon something I'll end up using.

So before you veterans write off such blends as 1Q, you might want to see what a 2/1 Gawith Balken Flake/1Q would taste like. That's probably not a very good example, but I'm sure you get the picture. And not only will you ocassionally come up with a better tasting blend by cutting it with some of the milder flavored bulk blends such as 1Q, you will also save a few bucks in the process. And besides, it's fun.:)

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