Wessex: Burley Broadcut 1.5oz Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-068-0029

An old fashioned recipe, Wessex's Burley Broadcut combines plug cut Burley with Black Cavendish and Virginia tobaccos, all rubbed out into a broken flake. It's then topped with a touch of vanilla, combining with the blend to deliver notes of molasses and butterscotch.

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January 03, 2021
Product: Wessex Burley Broadcut 1.5oz
Quality tobacco. Never had this cut before. My tin has a chunky broken, or actually more of a cut, plug that looks like granola breakfast cereal. It is more akin to "pebbles" of tobacco than to broken ribbons of flake. It is rugged and chunky. The tin note is rich with delicious boozy vanilla. While true to the nature of other German aromatics I have enjoyed, it is fairly dry in the tin. The topping is not visible or evident to the touch, which I like very much. For me, it burns nicely warm, shy of hot. I find it extremely light in strength, airy, actually. I find the taste to start out all vanilla extract, which is delicious in my book. After the alcohol from the extract burns off I can taste both the vanilla and the component tobaccos. While towards the mid to last of the bowl the sweetness caramelizes like the crust of a creme brûlée. This is a quality and delicious vanilla aromatic. I am certainly not distracted by any strong propylene glycol essence, as I am in many other vanilla aromatics I have tried. This is similar to my other favorite German vanilla blends in that respect. And, although I wish it were stronger in nicotine content, it is advertised to be mild. And, it is. So, certainly no fault there. It does not burn to a fine grey ash for me. I am always left with a crusty button of dottle at the bottom of the bowl. Again though, for what it is, no points to be taken off there. In summation, it is not my favorite vanilla aromatic, but no fault in that regard, either. This is a very fine blend. well worth giving a go. I can find nothing empirical to damn in this quality blend....Read More