After work I decided to pair up McClelland's Syrian Full Balkan tobacco with my new pipe from BriarBird that was purchased from Tobacco Pipe Collectors. The blend is made up of Virginia, Latakia and Oriental tobaccos. The brown and black ribbon cuts of tobacco are not too wet and not too dry---just right. Taking a good whiff of the tobacco right out of the tin was a little underwhelming. I was hoping or maybe expecting a stronger aroma of Latakia but was a little disappointed. It has a mild scent of Latakia and after a few sniffs I was automatically brought back to a time in the early 1990's when I was deployed to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia...more specifically the Gold Market. Now that was kind of weird...but it is what it is. Anyhow, I get a smokey, BBQ sauce-like aroma which isn't bad...just not the stronger scent I wanted from a tobacco named Syrian Full Balkan. Was I way off on assuming this or not? When I filled up the bowl of my new billiard, lit it with my Corona Old Boy, and tamped it with my Plateau Briar I got a good amount of full smoke. It took a wee bit before I could taste a little of the cooked sweet meat flavor of Latakia---really mild flavor. I really couldn't pinpoint a room note but will work on that (again, it was windy on the deck). Overall, it is a "middle of the road" tobacco for me...not that bad.
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