Hyde Park is a traditional English blend of bright and dark fired Virginias, sun-cured Indian and Burley tobaccos, and (we suspect) just a subtle hint of Latakia. This luxurious smoking experience is achieved by the addition of rum and maple sugars to pressed mahogany tobacco.
I am struggling to find the best words for how I experience Hyde Park. I have found it extraordinary and totally unique in my experience. I maximally enjoy and appreciate complex full-bodied latakia blends... present favorites are GLPs Sextant and... Read More Lagonda, and Ouellette's Black HOUSE. I equally exalt in rich, sweet, luscious, dessert-y aromatics, presently Boswell's Pom Holiday, Christmas Cookie, and HPSC Trout Stream. All that being said, Peterson's Hyde Park is absolutely UNLIKE any blend thus far in my experience AND I CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF IT. I opened the tin and was at once in a spring meadow with myriad grasses and wildflowers ever so angelically blessing the elysian breeze. In the next field over, someone was making a first mow of hay. I spent a small pleasant eternity just enjoying the tin aroma. Upon ignition, I was presented with a huge orb of magic and mystery... something herbal, something lightly sweet, something faintly floral, a sense of a medium bodied but very fine cigar... with a touch of leather and alfalfa. But then there was this... once long ago I smelled church incense from the Greek "holy mountain" of Mount Athos... the predominant base was a combination of true frankincense in concert with a delicate pine-y resinous scent which was then dusted ever so lightly with the essence of either Russian gardenia or Syrian rose. Do not infer "floral" in any ghastly way upon Hyde Park... just passing pastel shades, sprites, tobacco nymphs. Rich tobaccos, delicate sweetness, the comfort of a slow hot bath after splitting wood all day... that was my stroll through Hyde Park. One final observation, nicotine doesn't usually figure in either my requirements, enjoyment, observations, or evaluation of a pipe-tobacco blend and has never mattered much to me. Hyde Park hit me with all the subtlety of a fire-engine-red double-decker London bus at about Mach 3! I have never been that happily high in my life!! Gotta get more!! Read Less
Pleasantly aromatic English blend.
December 12, 2012
By: Keenan F.
I found this a very pleasant suprise very subtle rum and maple flavor that was accentuated as the smoke went on .A lightly sweet english very nice.
Great tobacco, not a typical "English"
November 17, 2012
By: Jeb S.
Just had my first bowl of this, and it is great! It's a lot like the HH Old Dark Fired. Smokey and earthy, hint of salt at times. it's NOT an aromatic by any means. good strong nic kick, burns nice and cool. packaged a bit differently in the tin.... Read More bunch of pressed flakes and bits in a plastic bag. at first i was bummed, but it turned out quite nice. a bit moist, so i rubbed it out and let it dry for a few before packing it. lit up and started enjoying. the flavor/aroma changes as you smoke it. i think there are a bunch of different clumps in there of different tobaccos, and boy is it enjoyable. really made me wish i had a nice glass of meyers rum. again, not an aromatic, sweet in the virginia sense, and dark and earth in the burley sense. a must have! Read Less
A Wonderfully Diffenet English
November 04, 2012
By: Stanley N.
I didn't know what to expect from this tobacco described as both "English" and with flavor components of both Rum and Maple. What I found was a complex, deliciously flavorfull smoke. To me, there's little here that tastes like Rum or... Read More Maple in the "aromatic" sense. Rather these elements remind me of the "Lakeland" style English blends, but more subdued and less cloying as I've found others to be. It might be the perfect blend of what I want as an alternative to the sea of standard English fare (of which I'm a steady consumer). Very reminiscent of Irish Flake, but with less nicotine punch so you can actually smoke more than one bowl without having a heart attack. Be carefull to sip this slowly because there's still plenty of strenght, and this might not be recommended for the novice smoker.
It comes from the tin fairly moist, with a wonderfull mix of cuts including partially broken flake, which you might be tempted to further breakup and air dry to
aid in lighting. While some drying may be your choice, enjoy this as it comes from the tin to fully enjoy the complex flavors and slow down your puffing and the burn.
Highly recommended to lovers of full bodied tobaccos whether it's pipe tobacco or cigars. Hyde Park actually reminded me of a cigar-ish blend at certain moments, without intending to. I'm a former cigar-nut, that sold my soul to the hobby of(actually devotion to) pipesmoking and collecting. Enjoy!! Read Less
In Fne English Tradition
November 01, 2012
By: Rudolph A.
A surprising offering from Peterson and blended by Kolhase & Kopp. Very English in the Gawith Hogarth tradition. A beautifully rich tin note greets the nose reminiscent of spiced maple. Easy to pack and light right from the tin, this tastes very... Read More similar to G&H's Rum Flake but packs more of a punch by way of nicotene. Puff this one slowly and you will be rewarded with a taste most sublime, rivaling the best and Lakeland has to offer. I taste no Latakia as reported, but true tobacco presence is certainly there and remains throughout the smoke. Highly enjoyable. Read Less
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