Peter Stokkebye Burley (No.702)

This is a very good, and the smoking experience is like Uhle's Blend 00 without the topping. It is mild and smooth with subtle sweet/nutty/toasty flavors. It is an easy smoke and came at a great moisture level. It smoked cool for me and was easy to keep lit. I realize the stuff is intended for blending, but it is a great smoke by itself.

If you are a fan of burley and don't mind mild/untopped, get some of this and you won't regret the purchase. As a bonus, it is a bargain.

Edit 1/26/15 I realized I was on my second pound of this, and it is time to update this review to a 3.5. It is simple and unassuming. It satisfies.

I bought this for blending but there's no way anyone can tell what a component does for a blend without getting to know each component. I intended to smoke a couple bowls of this straight but ended up smoking 8. It was probably more of a nostalgia thing than for the flavor, which can only be described as mild. There certainly is flavor but the smoker should go into this with a clean palate or they'll miss the subtleties. It has the usual burley nuttiness/toastiness and it burns very clean, if a little fast. As another poster mentioned, I found that the cut forced me to pack this easily. The aroma reminded me of my father's Carter Hall from years ago but the flavor lacked CH's top note that I find mildly offensive.

As a blender, this does just what it's supposed to do - it tones down a heavy blend and increases its body without adding its own commentary. I mixed this with a heavy latakia blend (50% latakia, 40% virginia, 10% oriental) which yielded a blend that didn't make my mouth feel like Normandy Beach during WWII - a great improvement! I also added this to that same latakia blend, added some blending orientals and a dash of perique and got something that, while not suitable for sale, was interesting enough for me to finish.

This is a nice, unassuming mix of mostly straight burley. It won't knock your socks off but it's very gentlemanly indeed for those times you just want to relax and not notice your tobacco... if you ever have those times.

I like Burley and blends that contain Burley, so I bought some of this blend from a friend who was thinning his cellar. This is a ribbon cut that is easy to light and stays lit comparatively well. It is very mild and does not bite; it will be good for blending with a nippy Virginia or other blend that needs to be tamed down. For nicotine strength, it is mild as well. For smoking by itself, it is rather tasty though somewhat plain. If plain, mild, unadorned Burley is what you are after, this is a good tobacco to buy. This was smoked in a Sunrise Canadian and a Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentleman.

Different than it was some years ago, where it was a rather dry, hard pressed and rubbed out tobacco with a more or less neutral and straight forward tobacco flavor. Since then reformulated into something more akin to Stokkebye's Dutch Cavendish with a slight smoky edge from presumingly a bit of dark fired leaf; I certainly hope it's not added smoke flavor but one never knows for sure these days. It's bolder than the Dutch Cavendish, actually a bit of a rough and I dare say slightly harsh edge to it that tickles the nostrils. The larger character is mild sweet grain with a light taste. It doesn't seem like there is much if any cocoa in this. Cased and somewhat moist but not overly so which I thinks helps in making it a milder smoke. It does have a bit of cloying sweetness probably from glycerin and perhaps glycol which may bother some. Overall, a burley that I would prefer over many others. Reminiscent of Mac Baren's Symphony but more moist and sweeter.

Peter Stokkebye - PS-702 Burley

Star Rating = 3

Rating Scores - 10 is the Best and 0 is the Worst

Pouch Note = 8

Room Note = 8

Flavor = 8

Bite = 8

Burn = 8

After Taste = 8

Raw Score = 48

Rated Percentage = 80%

Comment = Smooth, Mild, Mellow, nice burley Flavor without a Bite. This PS-702 Burley blend is just as good if not better than Lane's BLWB

If this was the last pipe tobacco on earth, I can't say as I'd mind. I order it pounds at a time, smoke it in a cob while I work outdoors, puff in a favoured briar while reading in my chair, it's just a companionable, very inexpensive good quality burley tobacco.

This is great burley in Cavendish cut, it has absolutely no bite, it is good for straight smoke as well for blending, it is creamy, the taste is extremely subtle and hard to notice, there is no topping or casing, you need to smoke few bowls to be able to detect its hidden flavors. It is NOT tasteless, I find it has a very distinctive toasty/creamy taste which is delicious, but you need some effort to find it.

For blending this is the best burley out there, it is truly unflavored, which is great to balance your heavily cased aromatic blends or for adjusting your edgy sweet Virginia.

The only thing that is missing in this blend is that it is not really "nutty" as I would expect from a good burley tobacco, otherwise it is really enjoyable smoke for the coming hot summer.

PSB are excellent blender, all their tobaccos are good, and I am never disappointed with any of them (never really).

The only sin of this blend is how simple it is. It is a blend of almost unadorned Burley, just barely processed enough to take the rough edges off.

It has a mild, oat-like flavor, with a hint of toasted bread. As the bowl progresses, it takes on a flavor, much like black pepper, in the background.

This stuff showed up quite dry. The cut keeps me from over packing it. The trick to this stuff is to smoke it very slowly. If you power puff it, you will naturally bring out the worst in it.

If you've been smoking heavier blends, you might not taste much at all. But the flavor is there just the same.

If you usually hate Burley, this is no goodwill ambassador. But if you generally like the stuff, this isn't bad.

I do not smoke this tobacco, but I do use it as a Blending Tobacco with a blend I have put together. It does take the rough edges off the Virginia I us in blending.