Peretti Dundee

The cigar leaf offers plenty of earth, wood, vegetative grass, floralness, a bit of smokiness, some tea, herbs, mild pepper, light tart and tangy citrus and darker fruit along with a little sour bitterness as the lead component. The Virginia provides a lot of tart and tangy citrus, grass, bread, sugar, some floralness, light earth and wood as a supporting player. The spicy, stewed fruity (plums and raisins), earthy, woody perique is a couple of notches below the Virginia. The strength is a couple of steps past the medium mark. The taste is in the center of medium to full. The nic-hit is medium. Won’t bite or get harsh, but it does sport a few small rough notes. Burns clean, fairly cool and a tad fast with a very consistent sweet and spicy, floral, smoky, lightly sour, bitter flavor that extends to lightly lingering, pleasant after taste. The room note is stronger. Leaves very little dampness in the bowl, and requires few relights. It’s not an all day smoke, but it is repeatable. Three and a half stars.

-JimInks

Very nice blend. This is the tobacco equivalent of Rye Whiskey, , sweet, but with an edge and maybe a punch. Stayed lit without needing a relight, but never got too hot, gaining strength and flavor as the bowl progressed. As with all Peretti blends, it burned to a fine ash and left the pipe clean.

My favorite blends are Virginia with Perique. I especially enjoy Peretti's London Flake, so when I saw Dundee as a Virginia with Perique as well, I had to try it. This is not a flake tobacco. It is more of a ribbon cut and much drier. The scent from the tin is very rich with a very slight hint of chocolate, although I doubt any chocolate is used. It certainly does not taste so in smoking the blend.

The tobacco is a rough ribbon cut and I do find a few stems here and there. Lighting is easy and it burns to a fine grey ash. The taste is not as smooth as a flake and can be rather harsh throughout, but further down in the bowl, the harshness becomes less noticeable and it delivers a very rich, woodsy taste. The Perique is not as noticeable as in other Perique blends I have smoked and I suspect is used rather sparingly. Perhaps it is the way I smoke but I do seem to notice that while the tobbacco is rather dry, moisture collects toward the bottom of the bowl and relighting is often necessary toward the end.

The room scent is very rich, natural and clean.

The more I smoke this blend the more it seems to grow on me and I could well see myself being a more frequent user.

I'm really beginning to enjoy this blend. I'm new to pipes after smokling cigars for a good ten years and my favorites are Emglish/Balkans blends.

At first I didn't really enjoy Va/Pers but this blend has changed my mind. It's not as flavorful as the english I've smoked but the change of pace is nice and I'm beginning to notice the subtleties.