Posted by Sean in Featured, Reviews, Tobacco | 7 comments
Peterson’s Sunset Breeze Tobacco Review
Here is yet another Peterson Tobacco review. I have been overall pleased with the quality, flavor and room note of Peterson blends and Sunset Breeze is no exception. In fact this might be my favorite Peterson aromatic I’ve tried thus far. This smoke is top notch. The tin is a bit moist like most Peterson tobacco tins, but after about 3o minutes of drying it was perfect. I also scored big and found this tin at a local tobacco shop that rarely sells tins, and this one had been sitting for exactly 2 years on the shelf! Perfectly **aged** (correction not “aged” but mellowed out 
) and ready for instant enjoyment. The tin aroma is great with a non overpowering amaretto smell with a vanilla/carmel finish.
Sunset Breeze burns nice and slow and the room note is wonderful, my wife even commented that she enjoys the smell of this one. The burley gives this smoke a very well rounded and mellow taste. It also smokes extremely cool (again I attribute this to time left to dry out a bit) and leaves my pipes surprisingly dry. I highly recommend this Burley, Black cavendish, Virginia mix. Happy Smoking.
Perfectly aged? It’s a cased aromatic. Once the casing is applied, there is no aging. Casing kills the fauna that are responsible for the early phases of aging, and thus cased tobaccos do not age.
Thanks for the kind rebuke.
I have tried many aromatics that I have not liked at first but with time they mellow and dry, making a cooler and more enjoyable smoke. I suppose aging might be the wrong word, we’ll call it mellowing out. How is that? I do not know the exact process as you might but I can attest to the benefit of letting aromatics “mellow out” before smoking them. Anyone care to back me up? Or am I crazy?
No, you’re not crazy. But the aging process in aros work at different levels. While in a “natural” VA the main process changes the sugar content in the tobacco, in an aro the main process works in the casing, most of the times they become less aromatics and there’s a better marriage between the casing and the tobacco flavor.
In some very cheap aros there’s a desegregation of the casing components and all that’s left is some unsmokable goo.
It’s is not true that the casing kills all the bugs, that’s because in a mixture not all components are cased. In a VA + Burley mixture most probably the VA will not be cased, only the Burley part, so, the VAs will age as expected when the Burleys will only loose some of the flavor spike, the total result is that the mixture will become sweeter and somewhat less aromatic.
Not all aros are cased, some are done only with topping. Most of the time the topping is done with some natural ingredient, that do NOT kill any bug.
Thanks Vasco, I knew I wasn’t crazy! I thought for a second there that i was about to be run out of dodge for my ignorance.
I’d love to hear some more thoughts on this topic. Whats your experience with “mellowing” aro’s? Readers please chime in.
While not as articulate as Bill or Vasco, I can attest to your experience with a cased aromatic “mellowing out”. And I love Sunset Breeze…its on the top of my list! Thank you for continuing to update your blog and reviews…some folks just have to nitpick. Keep’em coming!
I agree with the review. Sunset Breeze is my favorite “full on” aromatic- good quality tobacco that everyone in the room (or in the street) enjoys. I have received many compliments with this one.
They both can double as a good blanket But Maynard is the superior blanket IMO