Orlik Golden Sliced Pipe Tobacco Review
2009
In a beautiful 50g tin, the Orlik flake comes in long rectangular slices. Upon opening the tin your hit with the aroma of the natural sweetness of the Virginias’ and and like many others say it’s also a bit musty, with a slightly hay or grassy aroma. The tobacco is cross-cut, which gives it a great visual appeal in the tin, it also flakes apart easily and has a soft texture. Golden Sliced flake was very easy to light, and keep lit. This was actually my very first flake and thanks to Dubinthedam it was very easy to pack into the pipe using his method. Thanks Dub!
Now what about the smoke….. it was light, simple, cool, and sweet in flavor. Is was also a very very dry smoke, the taste is a pure tobacco taste with no hint of casing. My only complaint here is that the room note is not pleasant, it smells like cigarettes, which is never a good thing in my opinion. I’ll defiantly finish this tin and most likely get another, it is a great break for an aromatic smoker. My next flake Peterson’s University Flake is on its way and I’m expecting good things. I’ll keep you posted.
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Thanks for the review can’t wait to try it now.
I’ll have to give it a try!
I like Golden Sliced very much but be warned, this tobacco is not usually described as “cool” by anyone I know. If fact many old VA smoker friends of mine avoid it because of tongue bite. Just pack it very loosely & smoke it slowly & enjoy. In fact this is Tom Eltang’s favorite tobac!
I’ve tried it one but I think I’ll stick to aromatics. This was a bit to “smokey” for me. However after reading your review I might have to five it another try. Thanks I the awesome pipe blog.
Kenny, thanks for your thoughts. My smoke could have been dry due to the fact that I bought a pre-opened tin that was very old from my pipe shop. I imagine that it had dried out quite a bit being that it was a sample.
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