Kyle Weiss
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BoB strikes again. You never get what you bargain for here--suddenly I have even MORE tobacco to try. You all, and you know who I'm talking about, are "nice fanatics" and "generosity fanatics." Fanatics, I say! :lol:
I have discovered a nuance of repetition when I try newer tobaccos, something that seems, at least to me, tell-tale as to what step needs to be taken next when I smoke a very first bowl of something new. Moisture. Now, I tend to smoke right out of the bag when someone kindly extends something to me to try: I have discovered different moisture levels mean something different to each individual. I want to try the tobacco they offered, assuming it was in the state they wish it to be. Granted, this is not always the case, because some people dry each bowl, some people dry and seal, some people don't dry at all. This has had a benefit to me, both dialing in my own palette and learning what needs to be dryer when I do smoke it. The key factor I've noticed is when I find the first 1/4 to 1/2 bowl wild and untamed, and suddenly it gets tame and delicious the last 1/2 of the bowl, there's a moisture thing going on. When I try a dryer version a day or so later in the second bowl, things often change.
Penzance is going to be one of those.
I liked it right out of the gate. It smells like a Latakia monster in the bag, but it really isn't. Upon firing it up, it is quite bold, though, meaty and almost has a leathery and resin-like nature to it, the first I'd ever experienced out of a tobacco. I liked this. This stuff doesn't bite. It is wilder and less developed as I had it (out of the bag, relatively moist) on the first half bowl, but the flavors mellowed out and came together halfway through up to the end. Leathery, black pepper and slight waxiness greeted me pleasantly. Latakia was but a chime in the background, and much more nasal and top-end than anything.
I'm an English kind of guy, this has been proven to me ever since Wilke's blends and Squadron Leader. This particular English smokes in a way I figure an Englishman would want it to (broad assumption, pardon me...) "Mellow, quiet, but with the solid backing of confidence and smarts." In Penzance, nothing is overly or under-pronounced, but it refuses to be average or mediocre.
Well done, Esoterica. May my smoking habits improve quickly enough to revisit a conversation with this chap.
I have discovered a nuance of repetition when I try newer tobaccos, something that seems, at least to me, tell-tale as to what step needs to be taken next when I smoke a very first bowl of something new. Moisture. Now, I tend to smoke right out of the bag when someone kindly extends something to me to try: I have discovered different moisture levels mean something different to each individual. I want to try the tobacco they offered, assuming it was in the state they wish it to be. Granted, this is not always the case, because some people dry each bowl, some people dry and seal, some people don't dry at all. This has had a benefit to me, both dialing in my own palette and learning what needs to be dryer when I do smoke it. The key factor I've noticed is when I find the first 1/4 to 1/2 bowl wild and untamed, and suddenly it gets tame and delicious the last 1/2 of the bowl, there's a moisture thing going on. When I try a dryer version a day or so later in the second bowl, things often change.
Penzance is going to be one of those.
I liked it right out of the gate. It smells like a Latakia monster in the bag, but it really isn't. Upon firing it up, it is quite bold, though, meaty and almost has a leathery and resin-like nature to it, the first I'd ever experienced out of a tobacco. I liked this. This stuff doesn't bite. It is wilder and less developed as I had it (out of the bag, relatively moist) on the first half bowl, but the flavors mellowed out and came together halfway through up to the end. Leathery, black pepper and slight waxiness greeted me pleasantly. Latakia was but a chime in the background, and much more nasal and top-end than anything.
I'm an English kind of guy, this has been proven to me ever since Wilke's blends and Squadron Leader. This particular English smokes in a way I figure an Englishman would want it to (broad assumption, pardon me...) "Mellow, quiet, but with the solid backing of confidence and smarts." In Penzance, nothing is overly or under-pronounced, but it refuses to be average or mediocre.
Well done, Esoterica. May my smoking habits improve quickly enough to revisit a conversation with this chap.
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