I have had a couple of tins of Escudo lying around for several months, but I've been busy loving English baccy's and lots of different Frog Morton varieties and haven't really gotten around to smoking the Escudo.
Well I did today and . . . wow, really interesting tobacco. I woke up early so I could have a morning smoke. I will start off by saying right now this is probably not a great morning tobacco - it is really a bold experience is the best way I could describe it. This was my first Va/Per tobacco and there was an immediate strong peppery sensation and I was thinking I had made a huge mistake (the mixing with the morning mouthwash did NOT help). But as the smoke went on I got used to the peppery sensation and started to really sense this ebb and flow from the peppery to the really mild - almost creamy.
The smoke just got better and better all the way until the end and the last 1/3 of the bowl was really extraordinary - I was literally grinning as I smoked. I did get the bowl a bit too hot a couple of times because I was so focused on analyzing the tobacco, and I suspect I didn't let it dry enough and I am new to these slices - I could have done a better job packing them. I also wonder if I liked Escudo so much because I also used to smoke cigars a lot, there was a definite affinity between this tobacco and cigar tobacco, I thought, though I won't say it was the same. Maybe that was the perique?
Looking forward to smoking some more and figuring it out a little bit more. It was definitely an enjoyable experience, but I still can't put my finger on all of the different pieces of the experience or the flavors in the tobacco.
Well I did today and . . . wow, really interesting tobacco. I woke up early so I could have a morning smoke. I will start off by saying right now this is probably not a great morning tobacco - it is really a bold experience is the best way I could describe it. This was my first Va/Per tobacco and there was an immediate strong peppery sensation and I was thinking I had made a huge mistake (the mixing with the morning mouthwash did NOT help). But as the smoke went on I got used to the peppery sensation and started to really sense this ebb and flow from the peppery to the really mild - almost creamy.
The smoke just got better and better all the way until the end and the last 1/3 of the bowl was really extraordinary - I was literally grinning as I smoked. I did get the bowl a bit too hot a couple of times because I was so focused on analyzing the tobacco, and I suspect I didn't let it dry enough and I am new to these slices - I could have done a better job packing them. I also wonder if I liked Escudo so much because I also used to smoke cigars a lot, there was a definite affinity between this tobacco and cigar tobacco, I thought, though I won't say it was the same. Maybe that was the perique?
Looking forward to smoking some more and figuring it out a little bit more. It was definitely an enjoyable experience, but I still can't put my finger on all of the different pieces of the experience or the flavors in the tobacco.
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