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Royal Twist 3.5oz Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-039-0117

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Details

Strength:
3/5
Room Note:
3/5
Taste:
4/5
  • Components: Virginia, Perique, Dark Fired Kentucky
  • Family: Virginia
  • Cut: Coins

About This Pipe Tobacco

Among the most elusive of Mac Baren's spun-cut mixtures is Royal Twist, a distinctive Virginia/Perique blend enhanced by Dark-Fired Kentucky. Despite strong popularity and demand, it was delisted in the 1960s due to shared name registrations and unfortunately was taken off the market. While it later returned as Mac Baren's flagship Roll Cake, one of the blending house's most popular tobaccos of all time, the recipe had changed and no longer included Perique.

Crafted using its original 1960s recipe and packaged in 100g tins with vintage artwork, Mac Baren's Royal Twist returns in a limited-edition run, available only at Smokingpipes. Select Virginias, Dark-Fired Kentucky, and Perique form the core of this complex mixture, elevated by a naturally sweet, whole-leaf Virginia wrapper for a nuanced, all-day smoking experience with just the right amount of peppery, smoky spice. Meticulously handspun into ropes, aged for weeks, and sliced into delicate coins, Royal Twist is a testament to Mac Baren's proud spun-cut legacy.

Don't miss your chance to experience this special-edition revival of Mac Baren's Royal Twist, the predecessor to the modern Roll Cake, blended as it was in the '60s.

Customer Reviews

Overall Rating:
5.0
24 reviews
Best Roll of Macbaren
March 10, 2024
Product: Mac Baren Royal Twist 3.5oz
2023 with a touch of perique is the best!
Burns clean
February 04, 2024
Product: Mac Baren Royal Twist 3.5oz
It provides a lot of tart and tangy citrus, grass, bread, sugar, vegetation, light floralness, spice, and a touches of honey and acidity. Excellent. Love at first light!
Instant classic
August 04, 2021
Product: Mac Baren Royal Twist 3.5oz
Mac Baren has hit it out of the park with this one. If this becomes regular production, I can see it becoming as sought after as Scottish Cake. I love spun cut. I love VaPerKys. This one checks all the boxes for me. It’s like Mac Baren made this just for me. Pure tobacco goodness. Most highly recommended!!!...Read More
The Virginia We Need
August 02, 2021
Product: Mac Baren Royal Twist 3.5oz
A delicious blend with wonderful flavor development. The casing is simple and subtle, like a wisp of sweet cream. This flavor marries with pastry-like Virginia on the draw, making for a smooth, elegant entry. From there, an excellent body unfolds, with toasty Virginias and flavors of nuttiness and grain. The DFK is clearly boosting the flavor here but is not forward - a mark of a well-considered blend. Perique steps up in the finish to put an exclamation point on the smoke, with a perfect level of peppery snap on the retrohale. The burn is good but, not surprisingly, requires some care to keep temps within bounds. In short, this is not your ordinary VaPer; it is a deft blend that showcases the Mac Baren sense of proportion. I would love to see this one move into regular production. PS: I've tried a few Mac Baren blends, including Mixture Scottish, Mixture Modern Danish, Original Choice, HH Old Dark Fired, and the MB-produced Newminster Danish Gold. For me, the Royal Twist is a close #2 behind Scottish and would certainly be a regular in my cellar....Read More
awesome!
January 12, 2023
Product: Mac Baren Royal Twist 3.5oz
Freshly opened tin dated Mar 2021, has notes of mild pungent barbeque, spices, and sugar. Tobacco is an orangish brown and dark brown coins with tan specks. moisture content is a on the dry side, coins rub out with a little effort. Burns slow with a few relights. The strength is medium and nic is mild to medium. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium to full and consistent, with notes of wood, bread, leather, orange peel, dry earth, floral, slightly bitter, grass/vegetation/hay, sugar, moderately spicy, a tangy dark spice fruit background note, and a peppery retro. Virginia is leading with Kentucky and Perique supporting. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is outstanding....Read More

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