Three Nuns: Three Nuns Yellow 1.75oz Pipe Tobacco

Tin note of sweet, tangy and fermented fruit. Tobacco is a Curly Cut of tan and light brown coins. Moisture content is great and rubs out easily. Burns slow with a few relights. The strength is medium and nic is mild. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium and mostly consistent, with notes of wood, spice, bread, rich earth, floral, dry hay, spicy, fermented vegetation, acidic, orange peel/zest, mildly bitter, leather, peaty, tart citrus, autumn leaves, mildly vinegary, a lemon grass background note, and a peppery retro. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is great....Read More

If rubbed vigorously and smoked gently, this blend of sweet Virginias will serve well as an all day smoke. It is sometimes peppery, sometimes sour, but always grassy and bright. No bite or chemical taste, and very few relights needed. Just a solid, straightforward pipe experience.

Sir Walter Raleigh,having successfully introduced the potato to Ireland, decided to introduce the gentle art of smoking to the Elizabethan Court. One of the courtiers, seeing smoke emanating from Sie Walter's nostrils, reacted instinctively by dumping a bucket of water over him to put out the fire. ... or so the story goes. What may really have happened was that the courtier was only trying to spare him a case of acute nausia. Because in those earliest pre-Dunhill days, there was but one tobacco in Europe. It was called "Virginia". In fact, it WAS Virginia. But it resembled the modern product about as much as moonlight resembles a 75-watt bulb. This was INDIAN tobacco, peace pipe stuff. So called, no doubt, because after three puffs, all one wanted was to be left in peace. I mean, who wants to make war when he's on the verge of throwing up? Objection! How does this wise guy know what Sixteenth Century Indian tobacco tastes like? Overruled. I've tried it. It is still available, much in the same way as genuine Kentucky moonshine is still available, made almost as it was three centuries ago. It's just a matter of knowing where to look. Of course, tobacco isn't illegal, especially in Santa Fe, where I spent two years in the '60s after leaving Mexico. It was there I found, buried among the daily reams of mandatory junk mail, a mimeographed pink-coloured circular datelined Knoxville, Tennessee, which advertised "three POUNDS of smoking tobacco for $5.00"! That was an offer I couldn't refuse. Two weeks later a package arrived wrapped in brown butcher paper. Inside that was a months-old edition of the local Tennessee newspaper (the "Knoxville Knocker" or some such thing), and inside THAT was a jungle of already-stale two-foot-long flue-cured Bright tobacco leaves. I crumbled the top of one of them into the bowl of my next-to-least-favourite pipe, smoked it, and got sick. Next day, I tried again. After all, I reasoned, the hillbillies smoke this stuff day in and day out, and they're human, aren't they? And I got sick again. So I gave the rest away. To an Indian. I mention all this to illustrate that not all Virginias are created equal. You don't need a cultured taste to distinguish between the excellent and the abysmal. Three Nuns Yellow is about as good as Virginia gets. Indeed, it would be sinful to blend it. So my five stars, while indubitably well earned, is likewise a protest vote against any philistines who give it three or less....Read More

Clean, bright Virginia tobacco. Loose coins that practically rub themselves. Sweet grass, hay, light citrus, or honeydew melon. The flavour dies down the longer the tin has been open. For me, I liked it more fresh and after a week or so passed, I started getting bored as the flavour seemed to flatten a little and swing from the fruit spectrum to the bread and yeast spectrum. Hay motes in a sunny barn. High quality, and gimmick free- Many people will call this blend 'bland'. Those with a love and palate for Virginia tobacco blends will find a nice, mildly sweet, all day smoke. This tobacco burns very fine and dry leading to a bit of a cigaretty finish. That keeps it from gabbing a full 4th star for me....Read More

Probably one of the best straight Va’s I’ve tried. Usually they tend to be a one trick pony but this one has real depth and layers to each of the standard Va’s flavor profile. Burns great and tastes good