Sutliff Tobacco Company Sweet Virginia #707

Light, maple sweet, slightly creamy, high quality bright virginia that will make a good smoke on its own or as a blender to add that extra sweetness to a blend. For anyone curious, Sutliff does not make this nor do they make a majority of their flakes like virginia slices, mocha strips, etc. They are outsourced and made in Denmark by mac baren. Sutliff has stated they don't have the equipment to produces flakes like this. Having both this and Mac Baren Virginia no1, I'm fairly confident 707 and no1 are the same thing. 707 is almost 20 dollars a pound cheaper currently

Mild and sweet straight Virginia broken flake. Love this stuff! Would recommend to any who likes Virginia. Smokes cool and smooth, lightly sweet like sugar and honey. Also great for blending. No downsides I can detect.

Jar note of spices, sweet fruit, and hay. Tobacco looks like a ready rub or tumbled out flake. The orangish tan and brown tobacco is on the dry side and rub out easily, no dying needed. Burns slow with a few extra relights. The strength is mild to medium and nic is mild to medium. No flavoring detected. Taste is mild to medium and consistent, with complex notes of lemon zest, wood, sweet grass, spicy, earth, floral, very bread, tangy stewed fruit, herbal spice, a sweet hay like background note, and a peppery retro. Room note is pleasant, and aftertaste is great.

I had a hard time deciding on a rating for this blend. About 60% of the time I found it a little one dimensional and boring, but the more I smoked it, the more I began to appreciate it for its straight-forwardness.

Comes in a broke flake form. Moisture level was pretty good, but I did give it some air time. The bag note was sweet. I think there is a definite light topping here. Sweet, honey like.

Once at proper moisture level, smoked well and was very easy going. At times boring, at times flashes of really nice stuff. This would make a really good all day blend for a virginia lover. I smoked this in many different pipes, but for some reason, it really seemed to shine in a cob, which is not the first pipe I reach for in a Virginia blend.

If you take it slow, and really look for the fine detail, this is a nice blend.

Other reviewers have nailed the descriptions perfectly, but I'll still add my 2 cents, for what it is worth and as a mechanism for me to refer back to.

The tobacco is yellow and light brown broken flake and smells like hay, grass, a bit of earth and a detectable sweetness that is very reminiscent of honey. Not sure if something is added, but it does smell delicious.

Easy to load into the pipe and lights with the 2 light method (1 charring light, and 2nd light). It stayed lit well with firm, but occasional tamping.

The flavors were very virginia forward with some honey sweetness and a bit of bread mixed with hay, some earth and woodiness. This tobacco definitely highlights the 'high' notes of Virginia's for sure. It had a bit of tang and some sharpness. This sharpness was more apparent the faster I puffed. This is definitely a tobacco that is better between large draws and sipping. I can see this being a great tobacco to mix in with others, but also see it being an easy all day smoke on it's own. It's easy to approach and not overly complex.

I took the remainder of the 2oz I purchased and mixed it with the remainder of my other 2oz of Sutliff red ribbon (TS1R) and a few pinches (maybe .5-.75 oz) of Sutliff Stoved Virginia's (507-S) into a jar to see what these tobacco's can do when mixed all together.

I use this all the time for blending and tweaking and wouldn’t be without it. The only possible drawback as a blending tobacco is that it comes like chunky broken flake, so that makes it difficult to integrate into some finer ribbon cut blends. As a solo smoke I don’t find it so interesting, but I have a half pint jar of this from 2017 sealed tight to see how it develops.

Baggie/jar note of marshmallow, vanilla, honey, and hay, which already speaks of the influence of the casing. So even without added flavoring this is clearly not unprocessed natural leaf. Smokes more like a golden Virginia than the darker color that it is. Flavors of dried ‘sweet’ grass, with some bready flavors that remind me of Southern biscuits, a mellow fruity note like yellow Mirabelle plum (similar to but less sweet than yellow raisin), something like honey-baked cashew, and very mild tickle of white pepper on the retrohale.

Not bad as a solo smoker, it burns cool and steady, and my pipe barely even gets warm. It will also probably develop more depth as it ages. As a blending Virginia I find it indispensable.