G. L. Pease Cairo

Tin note of sour, Rasins and spices. Tobacco is a yellowish tan, brown and dark brown very thin ribbon. moisture content is on the dry side, no prep needed. Burns normal with few relights. The strength is medium and nic is mild. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium and moderately consistent, with notes of wood, dry earthy, raisin, herbal spices, floral, spicy, mild smoky, musty grass, mild sour lemon, a sweet bread background note, and a moderately peppery retro. Oriental/Turkish is leading with Virginias supporting. Perique comes and goes as it wishes. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is good.

G. L. Pease – Cairo – 5/5 – Very nice Virginia/Mediterranean Upon opening the tin, the smell of this tobacco reminded me of opening a fresh pack of cigarettes. Stop right there! Let me explain; I mean that in the best possible way. As if you were a kid again, and you smelled a freshly opened pack of an older aunt or grandpa, and there is no association yet with the taste of cigarette smoke. Floral, nutty, a little musty and delightfully alien and exotic.

The tobacco is a thin ribbon cut, and the moisture from my tin was almost perfect right from the tin. Perhaps air dry for 5 minutes or so. The tobacco took to the flame very readily for me, and doesn’t require much re-lighting. The taste of the smoke brought more parallels with cigarettes, but again, in the best possible way. Have you ever tried to smoke a cigarette after recently smoking a good pipe, and it was a little gross and ‘thin’ tasting? Cairo tastes like the opposite of that. To me, it tastes like a really fancy cigarette without the acrid nasty of the paper and the strange taste-distancing of a cellulose filter.

It’s sweet like any high-quality Virginia, with more than a hint of pepper and spice market that comes with a good Izmir. In fact, it tastes like there’s quite a bit of Izmir or Samsun in the mix. The dash of perique gives the blend a certain twang to it, that sets off the Virginia and the Mediterranean. Had it not been on the label, I might not have realized there was perique in the mix at all. This is not a strong tobacco, in terms of nicotine. You will not get dizzy (probably). It has no bite, unless you try to freebase it or something. It smells very nice, like proper tobacco, but I wouldn’t smoke this inside; this isn’t Grandpa’s incense. It’s tobacco, and makes no attempt to disguise itself.

I really enjoy it, and find myself smoking it just about daily.

Una miscela a dir poco portentosa. Gli equilibri sono perfetti, i tabacchi presenti si alternano piacevolmente con aromi liquorosi, speziati mai banali. Miscela non eccessivamente complessa, uno splendido tutto giorno che non stanca mai, ed ogni puff è una sorpresa. Da acquistare assolutamente. Facile caricamento e altrettanto facile combustione.

Nabbed a 2 oz tin from 2013, and seeing as Pease's blends require advanced aging thought 3 years would be plenty. Problem was that when opened tin had no vacuum, was crinkly-dry, and had a strong alcohol scent, very strong. It took two weeks to rehydrate, going through two sets of disc soaking in a 8 oz jar, periodically exposing to air. Smoked it recently, and... it's good.

Still much alcohol, whiskey -like, good taste from the lemony orange Vas, reduced interaction from orientals, but a decent recovery of a potentially abysmal experience.

Cairo is my choose when arrive home. An straight pipe, little bowl and the talk with the family. Very strong flavor of orientals and perique, but must be smoke in a little bowl, because it decrease the pleasure after the first half. But very few blends can compare the pleasure that Cairo gives you in the first half of the bowl.

Fantastic showing by Mr. Pease. The tin aroma is awesome. Sweet and figgy. This tobacco was somewhat reminiscent of Bayou morning. However, I like Bayou Morning better because it's stronger. It's my one minus on this otherwise wonderful blend. It should be stronger,

Light easy smoke that can tend to get a little hot at times. Easy all day smoke (which i'm doing with the present tin) but not hearty enough for me personally to be bothered buying more. I didnt find this particularly complex either. People who dont like heavy tobac will probably like this. As always, very good quality tobacco is used. Give it a try.

I like this. It's a bit much for an every day type of smoke, but it's nice. In the tin it's very light, bright amber colored. It came a bit dry. The taste is like a light Virginia with very little bite while still retaining the flavor. I had two tins of this but I moved both to ball jars to avoid over drying. one of them went to the cellar and the other went into the long rotation. I can't see myself smoking this too often but at least two or three times a month. I smoke about a bowl and a half a day. Don't judge me; that leftover half bowl can taste pretty great the next morning! Oh, room note: pretty rough. It's close to smell of burning grass. My gf is usually pretty tolerant of my hobby and puts up with Nightcap a few times a week. But this time she asked me to take the dog for a walk. When we got back a few sticks of incense were lit.

The tin that I smoked was from 2004. I have had this in the cellar hidden behind some other Pease tins and had forgotten it was there. That being said, I did buy two tins originally and had the first one 3 years ago. I took some notes on it then and compared them with the more aged tin I smoked this week.

More of a fine ribbon cut than is usual with Pease, and I have to thank him for that. I find that alot of the tobacco blends are in too rough a cut or too thick a ribbon to produce the best burn. I like to smoke slowly, and a finer ribbon seems to give me more flavor and a more even burn. Dunhill seems to get this.

The color of the tobacco had darkened somewhat from the more caramel fresh appearance. It was more of a mahogany. The tin scent was a bit more rich and developed with the perique being a bit more tame in the nose than before. There is very little perique in this one, but a fresh tin will present one with a tad more of it's aggresiveness.

The packing is easy. The char light was a presentation of oriental spice and a hint of the virginia grassiness. After the true light, the blend starts to develope quickly in the bowl. As the orientals start to settle in the virginia and perique components marry. The sturdy background they provide are matched well to the orientals chosen here. The strength is on the light side of medium and the body is a full medium. Flavor is medium to full.

At midbowl, after smoking slowly, you get hints of sweet India spices in caramel, with a yeasty, grassy high note. Very little fruitiness from the perique although dark, low notes are apparent. The strength has not picked up at all...still a light medium.

The blend smoked beautifully from top to bottom. No moisture issues and no bite noted. My only complaint is the strength. It would be a much more relaxing smoke if it had a bit more nicotine. As it is, I will not be adding any for long term storage as it just doesn't satisfy me as much as I would like.

For lighter blend smokers that have a slower cadence, I would recommend this without hesitation. Cheers!