puros_bran
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Cairo is an interesting tobacco. It defies being stuffed into a typical catagory. Virginias,Orientals, and Perique...What do you call it?
Upon opening the tin the nose is assaulted with goodness. For two years I have been trying to decipher what I've been smelling. My closest guess is a box of valentine chocolates.
The tobacco is irregular cut, a bit dry, with light and medium browns and a very slight smattering of dark colors.
It packs and lights easy due to the cut and humidity level.
Smoked slow this may be the most rewarding mixture I've ever smoked. I don't fully understand where the citrus note comes from but its there throughout the smoke. The citrus leaves the mouth feeling clean and refreshed. On its own this effect would be enough to make me like this, but there is more.
As the bowl burns down through the stages it releases various flavors. Several degrees of sweetness, a fig newton like taste,a slightly funky 'must', but the one that baffles me is a nutty flavor, almost like cashews. If I didn't know the contents I'd swear it was burley I taste.
The mixture burns to a clean greyish ash with no dottle.
Remember I said 'Smoked Slow'. If you waste this tobacco by smoking it hot you will be rewarded with a mild case of bite and be convinced there's no flavor to be had. Smoke SLOW.
Upon opening the tin the nose is assaulted with goodness. For two years I have been trying to decipher what I've been smelling. My closest guess is a box of valentine chocolates.
The tobacco is irregular cut, a bit dry, with light and medium browns and a very slight smattering of dark colors.
It packs and lights easy due to the cut and humidity level.
Smoked slow this may be the most rewarding mixture I've ever smoked. I don't fully understand where the citrus note comes from but its there throughout the smoke. The citrus leaves the mouth feeling clean and refreshed. On its own this effect would be enough to make me like this, but there is more.
As the bowl burns down through the stages it releases various flavors. Several degrees of sweetness, a fig newton like taste,a slightly funky 'must', but the one that baffles me is a nutty flavor, almost like cashews. If I didn't know the contents I'd swear it was burley I taste.
The mixture burns to a clean greyish ash with no dottle.
Remember I said 'Smoked Slow'. If you waste this tobacco by smoking it hot you will be rewarded with a mild case of bite and be convinced there's no flavor to be had. Smoke SLOW.
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