Lane Limited BCA

I give this four stars for what it is....An American Aromatic, heavy on the vanilla, fairly light on the nicotine and a great beginner tobacco. If you are tired of the overpriced pouch tobaccos, this can be had at most tobacconists in bulk. It may not be called BCA where you shop, but it is most likely in one of the bulk containers. It also tastes more like real tobacco than the pouches that the discount and cigarrette vendors stock. Just don't put this type of tobacco in an expensive pipe! Happy puffing!

December 2003.BCA.

Easy to light mild aromatic with a exquisite mild berry taste that is cool and refreshing. Not heavily cased and tastes great.People around love the room note. This would be a wonderful blend for first timers to the pipe or those who like something mild & tasty. BCA leaves a nice clean ash with-out Goop. 8 out of 10.

In my quest to find a nice aromatic, once again, I have been pleasantly surprised to find this one. I am normally a Balkan/English smoker but sometimes like to smoke an aromatic from time to time.

Appearance: Black Cavendish, medium to fine ribbon cut.

Aroma: Vanilla, some type of Berry too.

Packing: A breeze, it is moist though, I let mine air out 20 mins. or so.

Lighting: Surprisingly easy, two matches max.

Initial Flavor: Vanilla, Fruity

Mid-Bowl: The casing mellows, nice medium cavendish flavor comes out (you either love or hate cavendish).

Bottom of Bowl: Not much more build up of flavor, ash is suprisingly dry.

Overall: this is a nice aromatic, very easy to smoke, wonderful room note, no tongue-bite. I will recommend to aromatic fans, but remember to dedicate a pipe to this blend because the flavor stays in the pipe for a long time. I prefer to smoke this slowly, I find it ends drier and DGT seems to bring a little more flavor out of the leaf.

Rating: 4 out of 5 poiints in the aromatic category. Enjoy...

BCA is among the first tobaccos I ever tried. I still smoke it on occasion. My tastes have changed, otherwise I think I would still be smoking it regularly. It?s a very simple, straightforward, all Black Cavendish from Lane. This is an excellent choice for beginners, and makes a good all-day smoke.

BCA can get a bit wet and goopy, but even then, the flavor doesn?t change dramatically and it still doesn?t nip. Beginners may have a bit of trouble in this regard, but I think it is a lot easier to dry out a wet pipe than it is to get over a burnt tongue.

Overall, ideal cool smoke for the beginner, nice all-day smoke or change of pace for the experienced smoker. I don?t keep tons of this on hand, but I always like to have some around. You can find it anywhere bulk tobacco is sold. Pleasant for the smoker, pleasant for others in the room.

As stated above, this is a very mellow and cool smoke. It produces massive quantities of full creamy smoke. There is a nice vanilla taste to this but it does not entirely overpower the tobacco. Good stuff to break in a new pipe. I'll hover between two and three stars on this as well.

A dessert-type treat. Not hugely flavorful, but more than your average aromatic. The pouch and room aroma are exquisite, and it comes through to the flavor almost to the end of the bowl. This hovered between a three star and a two star, because I don't think I would order this in any quantity, but I'd take some on a trade, and enjoy it when the mood was right.

Finally got around to trying this. The tobacco has an appealing, black look similar to a dark coffee. When I opened the pouch, could definitely get notes of chocolate and maybe some vanilla.

If I were to do a blind taste test on this, I would have thought it was Lane 1 Q.. But I have to say, it is Lane 1 Q without the potential to bite (which I find 1 Q tends to do).

Now I wish I had bought a few pounds of this instead of 1 Q. Just a nice, mellow aromatic with a nice room note and flavour. Definitely will get some more of this to cellar away for the coming months and years.

Heaven knows why, I have put off trialing this specific blend for what feels like a century’s age. Yet in a practical sense, respectfully a genuine promise was made to self to give this blend a fair look-see despite my demonstration of continued inaction. Unfortunately stalled as it may be, hindsight supports that a pledge made is a pledge half-committed.

You know it comes down to this little bit of personal insight. Truthfully, my previous exposure to Lane Limited’s collection of scripted aromatic products has gifted me with a lesser degree of impressionable interest. That fact alone presumably aids and abets the chronic diversion that seems to be subliminally if not substantively afoot here.

Nevertheless I must clarify, there is one frequent reveler operating on the FB piping groups that has given BCA so much airtime and affectioned acknowledgement that I finally felt compelled to roll over in a wave of burning curiosity. So with this sampling and the follow-on discussion I hope to finally make good on my honest indifference.

Given BCA’s primary essence, one catches a grand showing of quality Cavendish tobaccos that are expectingly tempered with a midnight-centric moodiness. Excessive ebony darkness swells in a shady facing, being only lightly disturbed by a smattering of fermented black-brown cast morsels. As a moist coarse cut arrangement, the collected tobaccos lift an assertive airy fragrance of delicious sugary rich vanilla, whiffs of happy chocolatey delight, a salient affecting doughiness, licorice, and subtle alcoholic spices. What is more, this charming dressed-down aroma rides topmost over a meeker dulled nuttiness, bright sour tinges, and contained native earthy zest. Quite an inviting specimen was my thought based upon the initial introduction.

Overall BCA’s mild standard flavorsomeness is governed with a topping dominant arrangement and, yes, there are a number of individual ingredients delightfully converging on course. With each additive being readily discernable, the generality reflected endows a stimulating mesh of merging and conjoined lightly spiced sweetness. Comparatively, this blend presents a succulent commenting that bids an exceptionally smooth manner. On that note, for all purposes, the base construction of BCA does appear to be thoughtfully designed and assembled in a fashion that renders a celebration of unique aromatic complexity. Essentially, the savory quality of remarking is neither messy nor excessively labored with unruly, saturated bluster.

Principally, a prominent creamy vanilla assumes the center character, as this note functions as the lead purveyor over a small herd of additive condiments. Its rich persona combines with the dash of latent darker cocoa/chocolate seasoning to render a paralleled velvety nougat feel overall. And pulling through with that characterization is that bit of play dough essence that I find typically embraces that particular nuance. On that latter point, it remains a mystery as to why that occurs, but it does in truth, at least by my curious palate.

In supplementing this forward sugariness, I consistently recorded the ornamentation of a distinct anisette remarking that injects a trimming of bittersweet licorice/cordial-like zing. Additionally a bottom lying subtle black coffee starkness further embellishes as both complements service the registration with deeper colorization. And finally, a finishing highlight that was reminiscent of a seasoned caramel melded with basic honied sweetness logged with consistent pleasantry. As to the referenced whiskey flavoring of note, well at best, there is a very remote brush with a suggestive alcohol like spice that offers a tinge of maltiness, but nothing too saucy in nature at least by my reckoning.

Regarding the natural tobaccos, BCA’s heavy Cavendish makeup brings together a more passive sugary pecan nuttiness, and a mode of zesty flash, which can be experienced within the nasal cavity. Furthermore, I did record a common soiled earthiness and a reasonable degree of general tart. And with this native bundling, the base tobaccos do carry an expressly smoky disposition with an ensuing texture that is quite docile and mellow within the mouth.

There is no question that BCA’s expenditure fills the room with a pleasing essence of warm creamy sweetness laced with streams of very engaging complimentary sugared spice. With reasonable effort, one can easily denote all of the associated additive condiments with the chocolate being a bit more regulated. Filling the bottom impression is some nice earthy natural seasoning as well. Truthfully, I received no disapproving looks nor side-ways commentary on this one from the head resident critic which is always a puzzling but exceptionally pleasant development. And given my oldest girl’s reaction, I will take it where I can get it.

Being a Cavendish concoction as one should imagine, the simple tobaccos demonstrated a high degree of productive smoke plumage, dense and thick in constitution. Still, I discovered BCA exhibited amiable properties along the imperatives of burn consistency, heat, and pacing. With unmentionable nicotine impact and no perceived bite, the blend proved to be a welcoming trial excursion. The more I smoked this tobacco the greater my appreciation grew concerning how nice this particular Lane offering really turned out to be.

To summarize, Lane Limited BCA proved to be an especially soothing benefactor of aromatic contentment. More specifically, in deference to Nietzsche’s supposition, the delightsome music orchestrating within the overture heard here is indeed a silvery-toned harmony at that. Offering an enjoyable solution of let us say multi-modal functionalism, the blend could graciously stand as a treasurable dessert type option or merely as a day-long casual smokable, given that relaxing enjoyment is deliberately written all over the tobacco’s formal charter.

As a highly revered favorite for scads of aromatic enthusiasts, BCA is most definitely worth more than untroubled consideration. This most noteworthy point was genuinely discovered, despite my consigned noncommitment and feet-dragging degree of presumed interest. Live, learn and most definitely re-order, he said with an embarrassed softened chuckle. 3.4 Pipes.