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- Components: Virginia
- Family: Virginia
- Cut: Flake
About This Pipe Tobacco
A slightly sweet 100% Virginia tobacco, Gawith, Hoggarth & Co's Scotch Flake is a combination of flue-cured Virginias from Brazil and Zimbabwe, augmented with a smaller amount of sun-cured to add sweetness and body. Similar in content to Broken Scotch Cake its darker appearance is a result of it being pressed prior to slicing into flakes.
Customer Reviews
Quite good.
August 12, 2023
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Read a book,
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Scotch Flake Bulk
Sweet Virginia with only a tiny touch of Turkish for effect. Flavors of mild cocoa and delicious Virginia tobaccos. The Turkish nudges the cocoa along and makes for a really fine taste.
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One note
January 08, 2023
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Dave Keny
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Scotch Flake Bulk
A pleasant enough smoke that is very mellow and semisweet. For me, however, it felt one dimensional and lacked the depth I desire. You get hints of Lakeland and some grassy hay-like qualities from the various VAs. It burns rather cool and slow and it best when dried a tad.
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awesome!
January 08, 2023
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JassonWB
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Scotch Flake Bulk
with notes of very mild chocolate and Lakeland. The chocolate comes in and out sporadically. Taste is medium and somewhat consistent, a little strong in the first half, but mellows in the second half. Tasting notes of wood, spice, bread, earth, floral, hay, mildly spicy, mild tangy citrus, lemon zest, ripe fruit, a sweet grassy background note, and a peppery retro. Virginias are leading with 1/2 the flavoring supporting. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is great....Read More
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Same as Curt's Review: Mild Sweetness, Grassy, Bran, Sweet-tea... No Bite
September 01, 2021
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James Marc R.
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Scotch Flake Bulk
Reminds me of Gawith Bothy Flake. "Mild sweetness between grassy and bran notes, sometimes like sweet-tea. There is no bite."
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A Coy Mistress
February 07, 2018
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Campbellj4
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Scotch Flake Bulk
and toffee like in the bowl with slight herbal notes. Not your usual Scotch blend as there is no oriental to give that sour depth I normally associate with good Scottish flakes. But it does leave one wanting more as the taste shifts between toffee and herbal and back again. Definitely worth smoking in those more contemplative moments as the flake is enticing in its subtleties
(Edit Update 12/13/2018): I have recently updated this tobacco from a 3.5 to a 4.5 and have moved this as my favorite tobacco. This flake is excellent when stoved. Take 4 oz and put in a mason jar, secure the top with tin foil and the outer ring and cook in the oven for 2 hrs at 220 degrees. A deep dark sweetness is present in the finished stoved product with hay and grass through out the bowl. Once stoved, this tobacco gains a deep, molasses like sweetness that sits just behind a rich grass/hay Virginia flavor. If you can wait for a 2 week rest, you will not be disappointed, I could not wait and started smoking immediately the next day, once all the moisture appeared to be re absorbed back into the flakes and am being rewarded with a deep floral smoke, that moves between a deep grass and hay flavor. Occasionally a subtle sour earthiness pokes out a then goes back into a rich herbal flavor. This is a phenomal smoke once stoved and very well worth takin the time to stove. Wow, this is now my favor tobacco. Take a flake, and fold and stuff 2/3 of the pipe, rub some out as filler and pack on top and around the folds of tobacco and prepare to be amazed!!!
Update 6/25/26
I feel obligated to update my original review because, quite frankly, I disagree with much of what I wrote ten years ago.
Some of that is undoubtedly the tobacco. This bag has at least eight years of age on it, and likely closer to ten. Time has transformed what I remembered into something altogether different.
But I think the bigger change is me.
Back then I struggled with this flake. I even recommended stoving it and preferred smoking it in a filtered pipe. Today, I wouldn’t do either.
Instead, I loosely fold the broken flakes into the bowl with plenty of room for airflow, barely rubbing them out at all. Then I simply let the tobacco smolder at its own pace. If it goes out, I relight it without concern. This blend rewards patience far more than persistence.
The Virginias are nothing like the bright, citrus-forward flakes many people associate with the genre. At a slow cadence they become deep, rich, and bready, with very little fruit to speak of. Rather than fruitcake or dark fruit, I find warm bakery notes: fresh baked bread, caramelized crust, and an unmistakable butterscotch bread pudding character. The smoke is soft, almost silky, with a slightly oily mouthfeel that seems to melt across the tongue.
What surprised me most is how integrated everything has become. There are no sharp edges, no roughness, and no sense that I’m chasing flavor. The tobacco simply unfolds as the bowl quietly smolders.
If my original review led anyone to think this blend needed fixing, I’d offer different advice today: don’t change the tobacco. Give it time. Give it air. Give it a slow cadence. Then let the blend tell you what it has to say.
Sometimes the tobacco matures in the jar.
Sometimes the smoker matures alongside it.
I think this bowl was proof of both....Read More
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