Comments on: Peterson’s Sunset Breeze Tobacco Review

By: Lloyd Lovelace

Lloyd Lovelace — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:36:01 +0000

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By: Nikole Goossen

Nikole Goossen — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:29:15 +0000

They both can double as a good blanket But Maynard is the superior blanket IMO

By: Preston Forster

Preston Forster — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:43:27 +0000

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.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:42:27 +0000

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!

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:02:18 +0000

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.

By: vasco

vasco — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:42:27 +0000

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.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:05:56 +0000

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?

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:51:28 +0000

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.