Peter Stokkebye Heather Honey

I will say right away that I am not one who normally turns towards aromatic blends. This was given to me in a sample pack from a local tobacconist. On the rare occasions when I do want to smoke aromatic blends I tend to lean towards aromatics that are lightly flavored and have a solid, well blended, high quality tobacco that is the focus of the smoke, using the aromatic agent to enhance the blend. This was not that. This is very heavily cased and does not use the blend of tobaccos as the main attraction. The casing is very forward with almost no natural tobacco flavor. While this says heather and honey, the honey is very subdued where as the heather is very pronounced. While the flavor was not bad, in fact it was somewhat good for this style of aromatic. I felt it was artificial tasting though. This does have some redeeming qualities that I liked. It burned very consistantly and did not require re-lights, it burned fairly cool, and surprisingly in a blend this heavily cased it left the walls of my pipe clean. For this reason I will not give it the lowest rating and may try this in the future in a meerschaum.