Peretti Blend No.333

This is truly Carter Hall with some more complexity. I find the cube cut difficult to light and kind of pain to smoke though, requiring a lot of relights and/or cubes getting stuck in the draft hole.

Burleys are very peculiar things. Often simpler is better. Ultimately I'd rather go for CH or PA just because they are so easy to smoke. Nevertheless this is a good old American Burley blend that you have to try.

I know this is good tobacco, but I just can't smoke it. I can tell that the quality of the weed is very high. You really notice the quality when comparing it to some widely available, mass-market tobaccos.

Having said all that, it's just too damn strong for me. I tried again and again to fully enjoy a bowl, but ended up with a headache and a woozy stomach.

The quality shines through in the taste and mouth and nose: well-rounded, multi-dimensional chocolaty, nutty burley, very, very subtly sweet.

All around top-notch weed. Others will enjoy it, especially burley fans and nicotine maniacs.

Guess I'm just a huge pussy.

Yes this stuff tastes amazing, possibly the best tasting blend I've smoked, really and I mean that. This stuff is just so strong though, it is one of those tobaccos that sneaks up on you and you're dizzy before you know it, or even after you're done smoking, the waves get too strong and you're down. I just prefer a milder tobacco, but this is great. Probably will end up blending it.

Blend 333 is a no frills basic smoke. The burleys are of superior quality as I have come to expect from L. J. Peretti.

This blend packs easy, just dip your bowl and scoop, tamp with the thumb and strike a match. This cube cut burly smokes smooth and cool and has a fairly full flavor. Try a seasoned cob with 333. Puff easy burly tobacco can render some heart burn or a sour stomach if smoked in haste. This blend will be part of my normal rotation due to its superior burning qualities and taste. If you enjoy non or sparsely cased blends this is worth a try.

What more can be said. Cool burning, smooth, and just plain yummy!

Peretti's # 333 is a close call between three and four stars. Just now, I can give only three, and for the poorest of reasons: I feel I have given too many four-star ratings! I might change and upgrade this later.

A gentlemen at Peretti's once told me that the difference between # 333 and their BPC Blend is so slight, most cannot distinguish one from the other. Posessing a tongue jaded and coated by 35-years of pipe smoking, the distinction between the two is very easy for me to make. I very much prefer # 333.

Another reviewer noted a similarity between this and the OLD Iwan Reis Three-Star blends, and indeed a hint of Three-Star Blue is detected in the side stream...but only a hint. Peretti, as ever, has a Burley blend here that is uniquely its own.

This is a "no-brainer" in the best sense of that term. One can savor it, or ignore it; smoke it slow or fast, tamp it or not...and still it gives a great smoke.

I have no complaint about # 333 except that it is so consistent. Quite often one's greatest virtue can be his fatal flaw as well. Here, that flaw is by no means fatal...just enough to keep it from unqualified stardom.

Boy am i glad i tried a sample of this blend. After finishing my sample i ordered the half pound paint can and when it arrived i dug right in. Blend 333 is a cube cut Burley blend with what i assume is some sort of molasses/vanilla topping but i cant be sure as it has superior burning qualitites that a cased blend simply does not. Just scoop your pipe into the can, fill and tamp with your thumb. This and Wilke's Nut Brown Burley are the two easiest blends to pack in my opinion and they both have that wonderful Burley taste with a wonderful room note. I do not taste any other leaves except the Burley and what fine Burley it is! Peretti's has some of the best burley's i have ever tried.

Another superior American yankee blend from Peretti, and now becoming part of my desert island rotation, 333 is a sweeter, more amped up version of 111. The burleys are rich, raisiny and always cool. This is an all day tobacco, as it never heats up the tongue or the bowl. Very American, and characteristically Peretti, their blends remind me of how Iwan Ries's Three Star Mixtures used to be in days past before outsourcing and sneaky, underhanded recipe changing. Peretti has a definitive stamp that once experienced and enjoyed, is never forgotten. No goop, no gurgle, and a perfectly fluffy, white ash rewards you at the end of a long, dry smoke. Peretti's burleys are representive of the standard to which all American crossovers should aspire.

Four of five stars

A fine Burley, it reminds me somehow of P&W 196, it has the same very light camphor smell. The cube cut makes the packing and lighting an easy task, it starts well with just one match. The flavour is that of one great burley: straight, a little bitter and it doesn't built up throughout the bowl in a particular way.

Blend 333 is a non-aromatic cube-cut burley sweetened with a touch of molasses and enriched by a small amount of Virgina leaf. It packs, lights, and burns easily. The room note and flavor are rich and pleasant. This is an excellent blend and one of the few Burley blends I enjoy ? its similar to LJP?s BPC (Burley plug cut, which lacks the VA) and W (which is the same as 333 with Latakia instead of VA).