Rattray's: Stirling Flake 50g Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-055-0042

Rattray's Stirling Flake is a full-bodied mixture with equal amounts of air-cured, fire-cured, and dark-fired tobacco giving this blend its unique flavor. Not for the faint of heart.

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Components: Virginia, Burley
Family: Burley
Cut: Flake

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4.8

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Strong in a sophisticated way!

October 12, 2024

Product: Rattray's Stirling Flake 50g

Stirling Flake is one of my favorite all day smokes! Full bodied and robust yet very smooth!The mild sweetness harmonizing the rich dark,smoky,earthy,leathery,woody,creamy nuttiness and very nice complexity throughout the bowl.Very smooth and cool slow burning with minimal relights.The beautiful flakes comes quite moist and need some drying time, rubs out with some effort and packs well. Definitely one of the best yet underrated blend around!Very satisfying smokes!...Read More

Great stout blend

August 19, 2023

Product: Rattray's Stirling Flake 50g

The flakes are little hard to rub out. This is an excellent blend with ample nicotine kick. One of my favorites.

awesome!

June 11, 2023

Product: Rattray's Stirling Flake 50g

Tin note of tart dark fruit, peaty vegetation and sweet. Tobacco is a Flake of marbled dark brown, brown, and tan. Moisture content is ok. Some pipe smokers will want to dry it a bit. Flakes rub out with a little effort. Burns slow with few relights. The strength is medium to strong and nic is medium. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium to full and very consistent, with notes of peaty sour hay, herbal floral, spicy, wood, sugar, zesty lemon grass, earth, nuts, molasses, mildly smoky, burnt toast, bitter, mildly tart citrus, cigar, savory, a spices and semi-sweet dark fruit background note, and a peppery retro. Kentucky leads most of the time with Burley and Virginias supporting. Room note is tolerable, and aftertaste is great....Read More

Good burley flake

March 30, 2023

Product: Rattray's Stirling Flake 50g

Very similar to MacBaron HH Burley Flake. Which is also a great product.

It's Full-Bodied

January 22, 2023

Product: Rattray's Stirling Flake 50g

It's full-bodied and not too strong.

A Nearly Sterling But Still Powerful Foil To Its Sister, Irish Flake

October 02, 2020

By: Puffin’ Pied Piper

Product: Rattray's Stirling Flake 50g

Stirling Flake is like that very pretty, less curvaceous and less headturning sister of the spitfire, Irish Flake. The two share more than a passing resemblance, but there are differences, setting them apart, though both deserve the keen attention of many. Stirling Flake is to me less complex, with possibly one less ingredient than her sister. Irish Flake is a slightly cheaper date, has more eye-popping curves and is far flashier with her Dark Fired Kentucky, burley and Virginias and a more powerful room note. But Stirling Flake is well-developed and complex still to an advanced degree with equal parts flue-cured, fire-cured, and air-cured, like Irish Flake. Lady Stirling doesn’t come on as strong as her more exciting and extreme sister, who is still my favorite blend. But Stirling to many might be the more viable mate. I’ve dated Irish Flake far more, but Lady Stirling might become my preference eventually, one never knows! 4.7 stars....Read More

A stirling match

May 16, 2020

By: Jeremiah S.

Product: Rattray's Stirling Flake 50g

This is Peterson Irish Flake on a lighter cleaner approach.. I prefer this to the heaviness of IF. Both are great though and are welcomed. Nice to know if one company goes under.

Vary Tasty & Enjoyable VA/Bur... One Of The Best

June 16, 2019

Product: Rattray's Stirling Flake 50g

As for VA/Burs, it doesn't get much better than this. Packs a good Vitamin N punch & that's what makes a blend. Strength saves $$ because you don't have to smoke as much and this provides both taste & flavor for more satisfaction. Great blend & I have cellared the few tins I was able to obtain. All good blends sell out quickly and this is one of them. Superb, IMHO, of course....Read More

Beautful presentation

August 30, 2017

By: Nathaniel H.

Product: Rattray's Stirling Flake 50g

Like the description indicates delivers a strong nicotine hit. Refined flavor with a sweet note, a great slow sipper. Beautifully cut and presented with an amazing tin note.

One of the best I ever tasted

July 30, 2015

Product: Rattray's Stirling Flake 50g

I think there is any comparison with the Irish flake. May be Mr.Rudolph A. smoked it in the same pipes. The flavor of the Irish Flake is very contagious. I myself smoked many tins of Irish Flake, one of may favorites. This one is approching merely the old English Bengal slices. Even there if there is not latakia or perique in this mixture, it gives to me a kind of oriental deep flavor of a very refined quality. It is ideal to smoke with a good strong turkish coffee or a smoky single malt scotch....Read More