Finally Here

[saltedplug]

News of semois and semois bouchons arrived on these shores some 7? years ago after an astute pipesmoker published an article in the NYT announced its coming availability and trumpeted the wonders of this heretofore unknown tobacco.

The tobacco arrived but not the bouchons. I've never even seen them until I saw your picture. Thank you!

If you've smoked semois you've smoked a bouchon.

I could never understand why for most it's a yes or no tobacco. Actually I couldn't understand the no's. I loved its spice, it's strength, more medium-full than full, and that its variance is wild. It didn't taste like anything I'd smoked.

 

[madox07]

News of semois and semois bouchons arrived on these shores some 7? years ago after an astute pipesmoker published an article in the NYT announced its coming availability and trumpeted the wonders of this heretofore unknown tobacco.

The tobacco arrived but not the bouchons. I've never even seen them until I saw your picture. Thank you!

If you've smoked semois you've smoked a bouchon.

I could never understand why for most it's a yes or no tobacco. Actually I couldn't understand the no's. I loved its spice, it's strength, more medium-full than full, and that its variance is wild. It didn't taste like anything I'd smoked.

I thimk this is the article you are talking about:

Tobacco That’s So Brooklyn but Made in Belgium (Published 2013)

Deep in the Ardennes, there’s a man who lives out of time, tending a strange, near-mythic tobacco as if life depended on the pleasure of a pipe.

www.nytimes.com

 

[coming to_falling too]

I thimk this is the article you are talking about:

Tobacco That’s So Brooklyn but Made in Belgium (Published 2013)

Deep in the Ardennes, there’s a man who lives out of time, tending a strange, near-mythic tobacco as if life depended on the pleasure of a pipe.

www.nytimes.com

Reading the comments on that one is painful haha

 

[madox07]

Following up on other products in the pine box, from the same Vincent Manil. More in tune with a classic smoke, here is the brick of tobacco. It comes in a standard 90 gr brick, it's bone dry, and it smells identical to the cigars and the bouchons. I am not sure how to name the cut, I suppose some sort of ribbon of shorter length. I will keep you posted on the smoking experience.

 

[mso489]

I'll be open-minded and await the review. Trying to wring a cigar experience out of a pipe seems unnecessary, except for folks who just like to stick a good ole cigar in their pipe. Mostly, I like one smoke or the other. Even cigar leaf, and blends with cigar leaf, smoked in a pipe can be tasty, but are unlike a cigar to me. Pipes are like home cooking, and cigars are like a restaurant meal, engineered by someone else. But I like Semois in a pipe, so I might like this. And yes, I remember that NYT's article; I thought I'd never smoke such an exotic leaf, but soon did, courtesy of a Forums member, and I've enjoyed it in a pipe ever since.

 

[madox07]

Pipes are like home cooking, and cigars are like a restaurant meal

I really like that analogy, mso. It describes exactly how I feel about it, and for that reason I rarely stick a cigar in a pipe, except for the rare occasions when I a get bit s*** faced and happen to be smoking a cigar, and towards the end I want to keep on smoking it without burning my fingers, then I stick the cigar butt in a pipe :P I will be writing a review, and I will post the link here, but I will take my time with this one, since 90 gr is more than enough to get a clear picture. Quite frankly, I won't expect the experience to me much different from the bouchon with the slight difference that this may burn a bit hotter.

 

[saltedplug]

Hope you can taste the wonder that I've tasted in this tobacco.