Peretti Blend No.333

A rewarding burley smoke. Packed at a perfect moisture level, no worries about humectants. As a point of comparison this blend has more body than the STG Lane version of SWR with more complex flavors.

Easy to pack, burns well, and decent strength/body etc. I really wanted to like this one, as I am a big burley fan. I like my burley more pure though, and the floral casing/topping on this just kills it for me. Reminds me of 79. Lakeland smokers should like it.

The casing kills this for me. Pass go, collect $200 and proceed straight to Peretti's BPC.

The cube cut I found intriguing but beside that this blend burned too hot for me. Tongue bit city for my rapid style of puffing. OK, so there is a nice sweet, burly taste, I'll admit. A good aftertaste, a nice easy room note. I would recommend to the natural pipe sipper, but get ready for lots of relights. If I'm gonna smoke a similar burley, I'll do John Patton's Storm Front, which may be the best smoke on the planet. This one may impress others but it's one I won't rush back to. Two stars for name recognition. That may change if I find the right pipe.

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.

First, a little context: I've smoked all of Peretti's burley blends, and they are all very good to excellent. Uhle's Perfection Plug is also excellent. That said, to me, 333 is the ultimate Codger Burley, at least that I've come across yet. It has a very very good medium strength natural tobacco taste and smell when burning-clean, fairly simple, satisfying. What it also has more of and better than any other burley blend I've had is this: the sublime, apparently elusive, deliciously natural nuttiness that a great burley blend should have. 5 stars on a scale of 4!!!

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.

For those who want to expand their burley Horizons this is a must try! I love the granulated burley and that Ohh so nutty sweetness burley. Another great Baccy from Perettis. Only draw back you get a bit of chunks in your mouth or stuck in the stem if drafthole of pipe is a bit larger. This so far their best Burley blends.