I've loved Nightcap for years, and have been looking forward to the opportunity to buy more ever since we got the news about Peterson rereleasing the Dunhill blends. The news of the rerelease and the beginning of the change of seasons to Fall got me thinking about my latakia blends and digging them out of the cellar recently.
Over the past week, I've smoked several bowls of tinned Nightcap, bulk Nightcap, as well as G.L. Pease's Quiet Nights (which is his take on Nightcap for any who might be unaware). I was mainly doing this as an experiment to test between bulk and tinned versions of Nightcap, and I just tossed Quiet Nights in there for good measure. The result on tinned vs. bulk Nightcap is that some of the flavor nuances are more pronounced in the tinned version, particularly the orientals. However, the bulk version is very close, and to my taste, the latakia notes and perique are the same between the tinned and bulk versions of Nightcap.
The surprise in this experiment was the Quiet Nights. I am surprised to say that I am strongly favoring Quiet Nights over Nightcap. I do not think it's intended to be a Nightcap match, but it's definitely in the same ballpark, and plays the game even better than the STG Dunhill blends IMO. This is my first tin of Quiet Nights, and I bought it last year, tried a few bowls, thought it was okay, then jarred it. I first tried Quiet Nights hoping it would be essentially a super premium Nightcap. I think my expectations hampered my ability to appreciate it, but now that I've revisited it without any real expectations, I absolutely love it! There are certain almost incense-like notes that really just push Quiet Nights onto a higher level for me. I also get more of a plum-figgy taste than in Nightcap, which makes me suspect that Quiet Nights uses darker Virginias as compared to Nightcap, and/or that Quiet Nights might contain just a little more perique.
When the remainder of my tin of Quiet Nights runs out I will be ordering more, and if I continue to enjoy it anywhere near as much as I have recently, I will make it a staple latakia blend in my cellar, along with Balkan Supreme, Westminster, Nightcap, and White Knight. I've got five pounds or so of Nightcap in my cellar, and will probably forego any more purchases of Nightcap to stock up on Quiet Nights before the 2021 deeming regulations kick in.
Over the past week, I've smoked several bowls of tinned Nightcap, bulk Nightcap, as well as G.L. Pease's Quiet Nights (which is his take on Nightcap for any who might be unaware). I was mainly doing this as an experiment to test between bulk and tinned versions of Nightcap, and I just tossed Quiet Nights in there for good measure. The result on tinned vs. bulk Nightcap is that some of the flavor nuances are more pronounced in the tinned version, particularly the orientals. However, the bulk version is very close, and to my taste, the latakia notes and perique are the same between the tinned and bulk versions of Nightcap.
The surprise in this experiment was the Quiet Nights. I am surprised to say that I am strongly favoring Quiet Nights over Nightcap. I do not think it's intended to be a Nightcap match, but it's definitely in the same ballpark, and plays the game even better than the STG Dunhill blends IMO. This is my first tin of Quiet Nights, and I bought it last year, tried a few bowls, thought it was okay, then jarred it. I first tried Quiet Nights hoping it would be essentially a super premium Nightcap. I think my expectations hampered my ability to appreciate it, but now that I've revisited it without any real expectations, I absolutely love it! There are certain almost incense-like notes that really just push Quiet Nights onto a higher level for me. I also get more of a plum-figgy taste than in Nightcap, which makes me suspect that Quiet Nights uses darker Virginias as compared to Nightcap, and/or that Quiet Nights might contain just a little more perique.
When the remainder of my tin of Quiet Nights runs out I will be ordering more, and if I continue to enjoy it anywhere near as much as I have recently, I will make it a staple latakia blend in my cellar, along with Balkan Supreme, Westminster, Nightcap, and White Knight. I've got five pounds or so of Nightcap in my cellar, and will probably forego any more purchases of Nightcap to stock up on Quiet Nights before the 2021 deeming regulations kick in.
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