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Tabac de la Semois

La Volute 3.5oz Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-666-0004

Tabac Manil La Volute 3.5oz
Tabac Manil La Volute 3.5oz
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Details

Strength:
4/5
Room Note:
3/5
Taste:
4/5
  • Components: Burley
  • Family: N/A
  • Cut: N/A

About This Pipe Tobacco

Known for its use of Semois leaf — a Burley varietal grown in Belgium's Ardennes Valley — Tabac Manil here presents their fourth pipe tobacco blend, La Volute. Like the La Brumeuse blend, La Volute consists purely of Semois tobacco but is cut more like a crumble cake rather than a ribbon. Such a cut makes for a more rustic blend that highlights different characteristics of the leaf and offers a longer smoking time than Tabac Manil's more finely cut blends.

Customer Reviews

Overall Rating:
3.8
18 reviews
Wonderful
October 15, 2024
By: Zelkark
Product: Tabac de la Semois La Volute 3.5oz
5 star. This product is absolutely wonderful. This is the wizard weed from the misty mountains Tolkien wrote about.
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Stems!
August 07, 2023
By: Casey Smith
Product: Tabac de la Semois La Volute 3.5oz
First time I've ever seen it but, it was at least 75% stems! I ended up throwing it b/c it wasn't worth the trouble cleaning out all the stems to smoke. I have two more vaccumed sealed but, I'm not really jumping to open them up. Disappointed for sure. Cheers!
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The barn's going burn
February 25, 2023
By: bwtharp
Product: Tabac de la Semois La Volute 3.5oz
Im not sure why or what prompted me to ask smokingpipes.com to notify me when this tobacco was back in stock, but I’m so glad I did. When I got the notification, rereading the description, I thought, ”but I don’t care for Burleys.” Going by gut feeling alone, I ordered a couple of each blend made. When the shipment arrived, I was a bit irritated, so I wrote smokingpipes.com a lengthy email asking why they would ship something so damaged. It’s as if they left the pallets of tobacco sitting in the sun for a few days before storing them. Fortunately, I did a bit of research before sending the email. When they say this tobacco is dry, you have no idea what they mean by dry. This tobacco dryness is walking through fall leaves after weeks of no rain crunchy or drop a spark in the fall hay, and the barn burns down dry. It’s dry. This particular blend is also very rough; stems, branches, and logs are in the package. It’s a mighty rough cut! But let me say; it’s a beautiful smoking blend. On the first day, I enjoyed three bowls, each trying to pick out the different tobacco nuances. That day I ordered more of each blend. It’s something I want around often....Read More
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awesome!
December 18, 2022
By: JassonWB
Product: Tabac de la Semois La Volute 3.5oz
Package note of mildly sweet, earthy, and mild licorice. Tobacco is brown fat ribbon cut, a little on the dry side but soft, no prep needed. Burns fast with few relights. The strength is medium and nic is medium. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium to full and very consistent, with complex notes of a moderately spicy cigar, very earthy, herbal tangy vegetative, bitter wood, mild sweet cocoa, very bready, floral, dry hay, sweet nutty background note, and a peppery retro. Burley is leading with the "secrete leaf" (maybe Virginias?) supporting. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is great....Read More
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Bizzaro Burley
February 23, 2023
By: Andrew K.
Product: Tabac de la Semois La Volute 3.5oz
This is a high quality tobacco - dry and unorthodox by American standards. It smokes fast and relatively cool, with a ton of body. While a lot of American Burley blends are one-trick ponies, this blend has two or three powerful, distinctive notes that come out at different temperatures. Why the middling rating? I wouldn’t suggest smoking this on its own, it can be overwhelming on a clean palate, and has a bitter edge I’d suggest cutting with a drink. Would be challenging as an all-day smoke and isn’t something a new pipe smoker “has to try” even though it is super well behaved and easy to light. This is a boredom buster for experienced pipe smokers and burley fanatics....Read More
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