Robert McConnell Scottish Cake

This is a great tobacco blend. I can smoke it any time of the day. It has a natural tobacco taste. It burns evenly, with not many re- lights. It's slow smoking. The taste is mellow with no bite. It is all-around a great smoke. Esoterica's Dunbar and McConnell's Scottish Cake are now my two favorite blends. My only criticism is that in the US, I have only found it in 50g tins. I wish I could buy this in bulk, or at least a larger tin.

A very nice, straightforward, cool-smoking tobacco. Quite plain- tasting, but none the worse for that.

I like it and have been buying it in ten tin batches over the last few months. Great VAPER with nice balance on the perique. No tongue bite and just the right 'N' kick for me - it packs a punch. I do like to rub-it up a bit more because I find it smokes better. I also let the tin breath for a good few hours after opening

I often knock K & K for the relpica work the've done on many traditional English tobaccos, but I 'tip my hat to them' on this blend. Interestingly, it has reduced my monthly desire to try at least two new blends as I keep comming back to it weke-in; week-out.

If you're a VAPER man like me - and like a nicotine slap rather than a punch - it's a must try!

I like this blend because it is gentle on my tongue. I'm very susceptible to tongue bite and I get almost none from Scottish Cake. I think the acidity of the perique helps to balance the pH of the smoke. That's probably why I enjoy vapers so much.

There is good depth of flavor here. The perique is pretty subdued but I like where it "sits" in the overall balance. It's not as sharp when exhaling through the nose as in some other vapers. Every once in a while though, it will make itself known and my eyes will tear up. I like that though. I think that's part of being a perique freak.

The Virginia tobacco has a nice sweetness. It's a little dull, but others may say that it is "nuanced". Whatever. There is a slight grassy flavor to it and it is very pleasant.

There is a little bit of a nicotine kick here and I'm guessing you can thank the Kentucky tobacco for that.

Delayed gratification technique works well with Scottish Cake. I typically smoke half a bowl on the way to work, dump out some ash when I get to work and then enjoy the other half a bowl on the way home. Needless to say, the smoke on the way home is superior to the smoke on the way to work. Of course, that could also be attributed to the fact that I'm done with work for the day and I'm in a better mood.

I'm basing this review off a tin that sat in a drawer, unopened, for over a year. I did try a "new" tin once. I don't remember my impressions exactly, but they must not have been all that great as I didn't feel a need to say anything nice about it.

This is an outstanding VaPer. It's definitely one of those that really jumps right out and asserts itself. Tons of flavor, very tasty, easy to pack, light, and smoke, well behaved in the pipe. Ranks right up there with the best, certainly one of the top five VaPer IMHO. If you like VaPer and haven't tried this, you should.

I didn't think I liked this tobacco when I first tried it. Somehow, it didn't seem worth my time in the face of so many 4 star offerings. However, this really found a place with me on the golf course. I can smoke the hell out of it for four hours and be very satisfied. Oddly, my favorite stronger, more sublime tobaccos like stonehaven seem to lose their appeal in this environment. This is a very fine smoke, and I will keep it in the rotation for on-the-go enjoyment.

I just received a sample of this from a very nice man in one of my forums just today. I got out one of my favorite billiards and loaded it up anxiously to try a new blend of Virginia and perique that he highly recommended to me. I have pretty much been a burley smoker and light English, and want to develop my taste for virginias and my taste for them to date just has not developed yet as they scald my tongue. But this heavenly mixture is light on the scald and it really reminds me of my old Amphora Brown but with the perique zing. I have smoked two bowls thus far and have enjoyed both tremendously. And...miracle of miracles...my wife came out on my back porch where I was smoking it and said that it smells good and not heavy and said...you need to smoke that one more! She never likes my pipe smoke. So bless the man that sent me this and I am off to order a stash of it!

Update fall 2012: Continue to order and smoke this. It's top quality stuff and in the right pipe it really sings.

Update fall 08: This is a nice sweet Va/Per... easy smoking but I got bored of it.



First Update: The more I smoke this, the more I like it. It's kind of like the Coffee Crisp of the pipe world... "a nice, light snack". Leaves me wanting more, but in a good way.

Great dog-walking tobacco. I think I'll try Scottish Flake next time.



This one didn't do much for me. Quality is really high, presentation is nice ... "Von hand gemischt und gepackt" gotta love it. Straight tobacco, Va predominant - a nice dark broken flake kind of thing.

In the pipe this stuff is very friendly, for sure... reminded me a bit of a Mac Baren product without the acidic bite or honey overtones. However, there isn't a huge amount of flavour here... kind of a rice-pudding atmosphere.

Anyway, this is quality stuff, everyone else seems to love it. I was hoping for a somewhat deeper tobacco.

Sophisticated taste, nice virginia with (imo) just enough perique. Tobacco comes dry straight out the tin, burns very slowly. For me a very relaxing smoke.