Orlik Tobacco Company A/S Golden Sliced (Red Tin)

I really like this offering. I had asked elsewhere where I could find a similar blend to Capstan Medium Navy cut as this was JRR Tolkien's favorite blend. Since this can not be found in the US, Orlik was suggested as being similar. Its a nice smoke for sure while reading outside....which is how I experienced my first taste of it today. About 3/4 of the way down, I got a nice thick smoke and a good hit of the nicotine which was nice but not overpowering. Really enjoyed the moment.

Citrus undertones and an nice VA aroma. This is top quality tobacco for sure.

I nice flake tobacco thats a good all day smoke that reminds me of MacBaren Navy Flake but without that soapy flavor.

A solid Virginia flake that tastes good and burns easily, perhaps a little too easy. If not careful this one will burn like straw, a little too fast and hot. My tin is from 12/07 and needed just a little breathing once opened. The touch of burley ensures there will be no tongue bite. However, even the slightest breeze can get your pipe so hot it feels like it could catch on fire. Other than that one drawback this a solid flake that is beautiful in the 50g tin and is very economically priced. Everyone should give this one a try. A really great morning smoke with coffee.

Splended! Pure, straw-like, matured, naturally sweet Virgina with just a splash of something special. Beautifully cut flakes. When you blow it through your nose it is reminiscent of light cinnamin.

First a reference to other writers. The smell that you get out of the tin is not hay. Hay is cheap. In fact, it is as cheap as Hay. This is the smell as you break a nice chip off of a bail of pure alfalfa. Which is more expensive than hay.

I think of blends based on what foods or drinks should precede them. This definitely should be smoked with the thought that it will be the second olive in your martini.

Now, I do not particularly like martinis but olives with their pimento are a welcomed treat. Crudite with fine black and green olives some hummas or a gyro. These are the slightly bitter but very enjoyable foods that come to mind when I smoke this tobacco.

This is still my first tin but I have given it to a very fine pipe that I recently finished. It is not perfect. It is three or four inches short of a bent Dublin churchwarden. The grain is a little wonky in places. The horn ferrule is a little over long at 1 1/2 inches and is rounded to make the join with the stem look like it matches. However, the mouthpiece is bent to even out at the exact angle as the rim. And together the imperfections mix together to make it it look interesting like a spider's leg.

This is the same mix of imperfections that make the bitter mixture of good gin, vermouth, lemon twist and olive, a real classic. Plain gin and tonic alone is more to my liking.

But when a martini is called for, I will take mine shaken and not stirred. And as I drive home from the casino royal in my Astin Martin,please, please, let me smoke my orlik golden sliced.

I'm pretty sure I can add nothing of note to what's already been said...but I just bought this tobacco today in the 100g tin..rubbed out a flake, aired it for 5 minutes, and am enjoying it immensely. I have smoked it slowly, and have not had a single "bite". If you like Virginias, and I do, this is a bell-ringer!

This is a true and decent tobacco! Despite its form, it burns very easily and dry to the end. Mellow taste and honey-like aroma (but almost unnoticeable...) I recommend this one to those who smoke aromatics as a pleasant alternative to the everyday smoking and as a “bridge” to the English-tobacco smokers that leads to the tasteful world of aromatics…

This is staight blend...Va-Burley and some perique in it...My tin almost dry...Tin shape is beautiful but its not vacuum pack...

Flake cuts perfect but fully rub my flakes...Easy fill, lit and smoke well...

I'll keep this review simple and just list my thoughts on this tobacco that I discovered early in my pipe smoking adventures.

- Handsome red and yellow tin ("Smoked by all shrewd judges" printed on the inside - a sense of humor is never a bad thing!) - Elegant gold foil wrapped tobacco pressed into 1/16" sheets consisting mainly of dark brown and golden VA tobacco with intermittent flecks of white. - A sweet aroma in the tin, reminiscent of raisins. Yes, a slight hint of citrus. - Burns extremely cool - Produces copious amounts of rolling white smoke when burnt - Almost no flavor - Room note is barely noticable

I think this tobacco is very nice but won't really blow your mind because it has little personality of it's own. Would be an ideal tobacco for blending into harsher mixtures... Would be great for cooling a hot blend as well.

Good stuff. I recommend it as a blender. May be good on it's own after some aging.