Sutliff Tobacco Company Match Field & Stream

And now my friends, cast your line faithfully and aim that long bow with the precision of an eagle’s eye as Match Field & Stream has been set loose into the pipe smoking wilds as the gaming sport of the day. From Sutliff Tobacco comes a halfway aromatic mixture designed to revive one of the standards of yesteryear originally offered from the House of Windsor. Comprised of mixed Burley, Virginia, and assorted Cavendish, the clone sports a light coating of mixed flavorings including sweetened surprises and just a dab of refined alcohol.

Visually, this is one of the most interesting specimens I’ve chance encountered. Mainly, a profuse granola-like concoction shakes loose, that for all purposes, may have met with the finishing operations of a determined chipper-shredder. Largely populated with a mix of thickly pressed chunks of fermented Burley/Virginia, these tobaccos knot with an errant course of cut slivers, ragged ribbons, and residual deposits of leafy flecks to form a bawdy assemblage akin to smokeable garden mulch. Colored inordinately with dense moving browns, golden red, copper and a casting of swarming tans, there appears more evidence, than not, that the Cavendish is largely of the Golden varietal.

Carrying a very modest pouch nose, Match Field & Stream airs a gentle fragrance of soured nutwood Burley tinged by a paled sugary note of fruited wine. Further embellishing reveals thin streams of blended dressings that capture pulls of vanilla, maple and spicy licorice. Faded in the depth of this aroma is an inkling of native Cavendish earthen spice and Virginian wood. A very reserved persona given the blend’s rugged moniker and grisly appearance.

Through the initial series of samplings using strictly briar pipes, honestly, I was underwhelmed by first impressions relating to the tobacco’s flavored properties. Not necessarily an outright hateful blend, yet it tended to present an averaged, blasé characterization. And although the mechanical attributes seemed genuinely spot on, the noted deficiencies in the experiential tasting had me tentatively poised to levy a tough-hearted evaluation.

In upholding fair objectivity however, I progressed through the scripted protocols of my usual test plan. Yeah, kind of turning the act of leisurely pipe smoking into a geeky endeavor, I know. Nonetheless, moving on to an assessment using the combination of simple cobs and one of my Meerschaums, served to yield significantly different results. Namely, with this unbiased action, I soon discovered that the mixture became animated by an expression of refreshened overall flavor.

Concerning this most important point, I do want to expand upon this observation, one for your overall benefit, and secondly in reasonable accommodation to Sutliff. Call it a mystery of the physical sciences or sheer dumb coincidence, but time after time, I continue to discover that some blends can be nothing but finicky in terms of the smoking implement used. Therefore, my advice is to always keep this phenomenon in the front of your mind.

Now, if you were to request of me a reliable engineered process that was designed to produce predictable results of a known test blend, I am afraid that is not in order. To run a well-controlled experiment with that objective in mind would be an involved undertaking given all the conditional variables that one would have to account for, measure, and effectively control. Just accept the fact that some combination of undetermined factors come together, for whatever reason, forcing this conundrum to happen.

In a nutshell, the actual coatings themselves are set at a calmed intensity to be enjoyably experienced without being too overtly forward. Conceivably a relaxing mixture for the most part, Match Field & Stream came to presenting a very easy, light bodied aromatic excursion. In fact, all the registered additives tend to be well balanced and harmonize quite effectively.

Regarding those very additives, the span of coatings recorded was filled by a distinct maple/brown sugar sweetness nicely complemented by a touch of vanilla and some extremely thin licorice accenting. Veiled in the remote backdrop, a finely coiffured fruity red wine-like nuance peeked through on every drawl. The colored combination rendered by these assorted streams proved to be quite charming in nature.

Yet I must convey that the more dominant notation on the taste profile came as a buttery nuttiness delineating the primary featuring by the Burley. With that, I managed to discern some low darker earthy tones coming forth from the same leaf that largely fattened the overall registration. Additional styling came about with projections of greened herbal and sour aged wood as the Dark had a penchant to assume more density on the bottom, lending much more weightiness as a result. By comparison this fermented spiced woodiness brought up images of a soiled compost-like quality, but in a good way.

As to the gathering of Virginian, they tend to provide a faded complement in role, endowing a tarty citrus nuance, delightfully weathered hay, classic sweet wood, and a slight floral kiss supplemented by a tad of lemon on periodic occasion. The ganged Cavendish is distinctly low-key, creating a native zestful seasoning that adds an especially smoky undertone to the overall flavorful body that is outright pleasing. The last point being, I did find reasonable consistency for the greater portion of the subject bowl.

Finally, upon smoking this Sutliff replica tobacco, the projection of its consumed character tends to be lightened and, therefore, tolerable. Quite lowly contained, the essence calls of soured, spicy Burley, as its forthrightness stands solitary, encircling a distinguished smokiness and a trace of inviting sweetness binding with a passive Virginia-inspired tart. With no bite and no burn, one will find that Match Field & Stream’s sporting “a day in nature”’ accommodation to be genuinely a manful, if not womanfully agreeable delight. 3.0 Pipes.