Tuxtleño Tobacco

[Ahi Ka]

My wife saw a Mexican tobacco shop down the road the other day so I decided to go check it out.

Lots of cigars, and obviously stuff for weed, but I was chuffed to see a few modest pipes and ash trays for sale.

What caught my attention was the pipe tobacco they had available. There were 3 blends, all natural and all single origin - ok they don’t use that word, but that’s what they are.

Two were shag and could be used as RYO too. One being golden Virginia and the other being shag cut Mapucho rustica - I thought of you @Chasing Embers and @jpberg

The other was a fish flakes type cut of a variety of tobacco called Tuxtleño - named after the location of origin. This caught my attention as I had never even heard of it. I wonder if it is a local burley as the description says air cured, fermented, high nic, low sugar, cacao and vanilla aroma.

I was short on pesos so I brought the Tuxtleño. But I’ll be returning for some rustica before I leave.

Anyone else heard of it?

 

[mingc]

Pictures please!

 

[Brad H]

You know how they say don’t drink the water in Mexico unless it’s in a bottle
Same rule of thumb should apply to anything smokable in Mexico as well, hope it was packaged.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

Very curious to hear about that Tuxtleño.

 

[Zamora]

I've never heard of it, but I know Mexico does produce burley so that's definitely a possibility.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Pictures please!

I thought you might say that



Now that I have opened the bag I can see it’s not the fish flake cut I originally thought and more of a hand threshed cut. Uneven with some small bits of stalk.

Now I’m certainly not complaining, though I appreciate that if not being familiar with home grown or purchased raw leaf one might wonder what the heck they were dealing with.

This stuff was dry but didn’t need too much breathing through the chamber to bring it back into case.

I was bracing myself for a harsh smoke, and boy was I surprised. This is super mild and rather tasty. Definitely has the cocoa and vanilla notes as advertised, along with hints of floral cigar. But zero nuttiness or vegetal flavour like burley.

Actually the best way to describe this would be halfway between semois and a cigar. If this was cased and cavendish processed I think it would make a lovely codger-esque smoke. Nothing mind blowing, but I’ll definitely enjoy smoking all of this baggie.

Here is a link to their Facebook site which has a profile about the tuxtleño leaf. I’m certainly going to try and find some more about it, even if it’s just to get an English variety name for buying seeds. It’s very similar to a Havana blend I grow but deeper in flavour.

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[agnosticpipe]

Interesting, reminds me of the tobacco my grandfather smoked, well sort of.

 

[Brendan]

Honestly, that stuffs looks and tastes like something I could really dig. Good contrast between pipe and cigars.
Maybe one day.
Saying that I have yet to try Semois or any of the GH ropes, let alone home grown leaf.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Very cool! I would love to try the rustica variety. or any of them.
I wish more international pipe smokers would feature their local blends on the forums. I love hearing about these.