Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake

Very good, very natural. Lots of citrus and sweet hay notes. Some toast with a smidge of honey and chocolate. Perique adds some raisin and black pepper spice. Sugary and savoury. A simple and straight forward VaPer. No bite, but can get hot if puffed fast. Another terrific bulk offering from Peter Stokkebye at a fair price. Highly impressed. Highly recommend. 4 stars.

What can I add that hasn´t been said? AGE IT!!!!

This is a great budgetary friendly blend if you like Virginia Flakes. I really enjoy it with dark coffee or Earl Grey Tea and milk. Sweet, bready, citrusy, warm and slightly spicy. This makes a great every day smoke. I usually do the fold and stuff method, I feel like it gives me slower smokes and more flavorful tastes. The only suggestion I have for you is to put some in a jar you'll be smoking and the rest, store it for good, with 3-4 years this blend gets much darker, sweeter and richer.

I agree with some reviewers here in their assesment of stokkebye vas as subtle. That they are. Id add that they are also creamy, savory, restrained and tasteful. I guess that i mean this mostly in regard to this, my favorite p.s. offering by a long shot, because there are others in which i don't find all these positive qualities. But here they are all of the above, and more.

This blend is what vaper is about, at least to me. The toasty, grassy, figgy, ripe flavor blooms right off the match, and stays consistent till the end. It does deepen, but does not vary as you progress. I think of this blend as providing always what i can appreciate in orlik golden sliced only about 50% of the time. Its one of those genuinely satisfying flavors that we seek in our passtime. The virginias are superb, though different in character from most other blenders. The perique is present in perfect ratio for me. It is tasted in each puff, but discreetly, augmenting the va subtly but significantly. I enjoy some perique heavy vapers (bayou morning comes to mind), but the careful addition to create a synergistic flavor is what i truly appreciate here. The topping is mild and deftly applied as well. Overall superbly done. Nicotine is mildmedium. Sufficient. This is in my rotation and will likely always be. A beautiful smoke at a reasonable price. Ages beautifully as well.

This is a very solid presentation from Peter Stokebbye, with no loose ends or weak spots. With fig, raisin and earthy undertones, the tin note really is something to die for. I cannot tell about the moist content out of the tin as I am buying in bulk, but despite the fact these flakes might benefit from some airing time, they smoke perfectly fine straight out of the bag. As you light up your pipe you're hit with this subdued spiciness and sweetness, which obviously is coming from the Perique and Virginia leaf it contains. By the looks of it, they seem to contain a fair amount of bright leaf, but they are quite mellow, smoke cool in your bowl and I cannot detect any tongue-bite at all. This baccy is very easy-going on the palate and does not seem to develop any harsh spots as your progress with your smoke. I can only imagine what cellaring could do to these flakes.

Edit: 26/08/2017

I don't usually smoke Virginia tobacco on a regular basis, but I found myself reaching more and more for this tobacco. In true honesty, this baccy is growing on me day by day, and the more I smoke it the more I like it. I find Virginia leaf somewhat bitey, so I only use it every now and then when I am in the mood for it. But these flakes are so forgiving and soft on the palate that can be used every day.

I just smoked a tall narrow chambered bowl of this tobacco and for the price, it is very good. I’ve had it jarred for 8 months and it did very well with about fifteen minutes drying time. Folded and stuffed two flakes and just enough tamp to bring it right below the rim. Took to the match very well and was welcomed with a nice sweet, hay, grassy Virginia. I was surprised how the sweetness conversed with the light addition of the Perique. Perhaps it was the shape of my bowl, but the changes throughout the smoke were quite dramatic (although not complex) in a very good way. The components of this tobacco worked very well together and they almost seemed to be taking turns at showing what they had to offer - from slightly sweet to mildly peppery. I sipped this slowly; however, about the half way mark, the bowl started warming up. I dumped the ash and gave it a slight tamp, set it down to cool for a few minutes. When I re-lit, it only got better. This tobacco gets better right down to the bottom of the bowl, and when it was finished, I must say, I was a little disappointed. It was like saying goodnight after a really great date – like saying goodbye to summer. It burned clean, dry and for the most part, cool with no bite. I will always have some in my cellar.

How did i forget to review LNF when i first started writing reviews 5 years ago i'll never know. I have smoked more Lux Navy Flake than any other tobacco, ever. Why?

Because it's a great easy all day smoke that keeps delivering. Because it's very affordable (a lb on special is a third the price of tinned stuff). Because it smokes so well from top to bottom and is delivered at the perfect moisture content. Because you can smoke it fast or slow. Because it age's really nicely and just 6 month in a jar is quite noticable and 1 year is fantastic. Finally, because with a bit of age it's better than 95% of the much more expensive tinned tobacco i've tried.

I hope you'll give it a go as i'm sure you will not be disappointed.

A wonderful VA/PER blend. I tried this the first time, while vacationing in Italy and Switzerland a couple of years ago. Love the tin smell- my wife said it smelled like freshly cut hay. I'm glad I had a pipe with a large bowl, since the flake cut takes a little more effort to pack. I smoked it in the evening, with one of my two sisters; my older sister is a Camel non-filter smoker and she commented on how much she loved the aroma. As a lover of sweet Virginias, this one tops my list. Great flavor, no bite, and nice room note. I can't wait to order my next tin. I give it 4 stars an would recommend it to any pipe smoker- even those who smoke aromatics primarily.

Boom! One of my new favorites. A perfect smoke on a hot summer day. A very clean flavor from the Virginias. Cool and easy burning. I love it.

Thin short rectangular flakes, mostly mid browns, quite dry and fall into strings at the touch.

The pouch note is distinct and sweet: I get cinnamon and brown sugar and something like maple, perhaps the faintest hint of vanilla. I wonder if there is Burley in this, because there are also nutty aromas to be had.

Takes a light easily and the sweetness persists. The Perique here is subdued with its presence made known by plum like overtones and a pepper like tickle at the back of the throat and on the nostrils. The Virginias are not the bright citrus and hay sorts, but are more mid range, darker and fuller.

This is a beautifully balanced tobacco, with a fair amount of nuance. It is imo a far better tobacco than PS Luxury Bullseye Flakes. I enjoyed it very much and was tempted to give it 4 stars.

Update Feb 16. After 6 months and about a kilo of this stuff I am revising it to 4 stars. Easily one of my favourite tobaccos. This stuff is just so gentle and user friendly and full of taste.