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Chocolate Flake 50g Pipe Tobacco

Name: Chocolate Flake 50g
Brand: Samuel Gawith
SKU: 003-059-0017
Price: 16.788 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.62 (29 reviews)

Product Number: 003-059-0017

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Details

Strength:

3/5

Room Note:

3/5

Taste:

3/5

Components: Virginia, Latakia, Burley
Family: Virginia
Cut: Flake

About This Pipe Tobacco

Samuel Gawith was the son-in-law of Thomas Harrison, a snuff manufacturer who moved his trade and equipment to Kendal, Cumbria, England from Scotland in 1792. Gawith inherited this equipment from Harrison, and the company has been crafting premium tobacco since, with one of Samuel's two sons continuing the brand while the other joined with Henry Hoggarth to establish Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Though offering separate blends, both brands remain forever linked and still share the same manufacturing facility in England's Lake District, utilizing processes and techniques that date to the brands' 1792 roots. In many of their mixtures, Samuel Gawith maintains the standards enforced by the United Kingdom's strict purity laws of the 19th and 20th centuries — such laws dictating how much and what type of flavorings could be added to pipe tobacco and ensuring that sub-quality leaf wasn't hidden under the veil of exorbitant toppings.

The Kendal Mayor's Collection of pipe tobaccos honors Samuel Gawith as the former mayor of Kendal, and Chocolate Flake is a unique blend of Virginias, Burley, and a touch of Latakia. While many mixtures comprising Latakia are classified as English blends, Chocolate Flake is much more Virginia-forward, the smokiness of the Latakia considerably subdued and further balanced by a slight topping of dark chocolate.

Customer Reviews

Overall Rating:

2.0

29 reviews

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Interesting flavor but hard to smoke

July 10, 2026

By: Samuel B.

Product: Samuel Gawith Chocolate Flake 50g

I've probably smoked through half this tin over the last year or so. Every time I go to smoke it, I wonder why it's been so long, but it doesn't take me long to remember why.

Visually the flakes look incredible, they're super dark and dense and covered in crystalized sugars. The smell is also incredible, rich, meaty and sweet. Between the smell and appearance it almost looks good enough to eat....

The flakes don't feel very wet to me, and they tend to crumble instead of folding/rolling cleanly. Stuffing it into my pipe, it was nearly impossible to get it to stay lit, I ended up emptying my pipe and letting it sit for 10-15 minutes, but even after that I found myself needing to relight every 3-5 puffs.

Flavor wise this blend is very unique. I can definitely get the bitter chocolate flavor if I think about it, but to me it tastes like a strong earthy tea with a lot of honey.

It's a shame to do so, but I'll probably rub out the rest of the flakes to try and improve the smoking experience. If it smoked better, I would definitely score this above average....Read More

just bad

April 06, 2026

By: Thomas Dean B.

Product: Samuel Gawith Chocolate Flake 50g

smoked it 20 years ago, it was wonderful. The new version is like a completely different product.

no actual flavor, just a light smell of cocoa in the tin. The actual tobacco had no actual smell or flavor of anything. no longer buy gawith products as the company enjoys trashing customers on tobacco forums and brags about reducing the quality and quantity of the flavoring....Read More

Light on the chocolate

March 19, 2026

By: William I.

Product: Samuel Gawith Chocolate Flake 50g

Very interesting blend. I was expecting something different to what it actually is. What it is, is a beautiful blend of dark flavor and body. Earthy, woody, very lightly smoky. In fact the smokiness is about as perceptible as the chocolate, which is hardly at all. These flavors are more supportive notes than explicit tastes. A suggestion of dark cocoa and smoke. Despite this, I found it utterly charming. Albeit, almost impossible to get lit without burning the piss out of my tongue. However, I’ve changed my tactics a bit. I now will fill a bowl in the afternoon for an evening smoke, and the drying time works like magic, as these flakes come extremely moist. Not unlike one of my other favorites, university flake. This actually has some similarities with my beloved university, and bites me just as bad. It’s just so hard to smoke them slow when they taste so good. Goes great with a beer too. I can’t emphasize enough how difficult it is to take to the flame. That’s really my only complaint. I’m giving it 5 stars anyway, simply on the merit of its wonderful rich flavor. Truly top notch stuff here, just don’t expect it to be chocolate flavored tobacco, which it most certainly is not. Again just the faintest hint of dark cocoa with a wisp of smoky over one of the richest, creamiest, and downright chewy smokes I’ve had in recent memory...Read More

Not Much To This At All

December 20, 2024

By: Kevin L.

Product: Samuel Gawith Chocolate Flake 50g

No Chocolate No Latakia Nothing Really , Boring and Flavor-Less Edit : I tried one last time in a large, deep, narrow pipe and it was much better. Pretty good in fact.You have to find the rite pipe for this to work.

Disappointing

February 19, 2023

By: Robert P.

Product: Samuel Gawith Chocolate Flake 50g

Rename it Smokey and dry - There is no chocolate to be found in either sweet nor bitter. The Latakia was MIA too. Basically, a Burley forward, dry and slightly spicy smoke. Not an aromatic in my opinion. And doesn’t stay lite either, this was a total flop.