McConnell Cruise Line Pipe tobacco 100g Tin

Manufacturer Description:
An excellent blend of the finest tobaccos such as Maryland, Virginia and Burley and Black Cavendish. A pleasant smell of milk chocolate is enticing. Visually, the tobacco is a stunner, too. The taste of "Cruise Line" is the trend of today's pipe smoker - aromatic. This is underlined by a slow and cool burning.

Characterisation:
The Cruise Line comes in a round tin with a reclosable pressure cap and an additional plastic lid that ensures that the tobacco remains well-conditioned. If you open both lids, in the nose rises an intense aroma of vanilla and fruity tea. Chocolate is, if there is any, to sniff only in the background. The content is made up of wide cut sheets, as well as fine and long cut portions, which alternate between light and dark brown. From the fresh opened tin the tobacco seems almost moist, so you can let it dry over an hour before smoking it.

Plugging:
As a loose mixture, the Cruise Line can be plugged normaly. Down below starting loose and upwards with gentle pressure. Since the tobacco by the larger sheet components tends to rise, however, it should not be stuffed too tight and to the very top.

Light up:
The lighting of the Cruise Line is relatively simple if pre-dried. A single flame is usually sufficient, but one should carefully push it down with the tamper, since the coarser leaves rise under the flame. More "difficulties" there should not be.

Smoking  properties:
The smoke of the Cruise Line is despite the sweet fragrance in cold tobacco quite spicy and nutty basic tobaccos come to fruition. However, the smoke is sweet, yes indeed milky and transports a velvety, subtle chocolate touch that makes it attractive, to taste for it. If you use the tamper from time to time, then the pleasure sustains until the last third of the filling. Then the aroma abates, for the pronounced tobacco flavors. Since the tobacco neither tends to tongue bite nor gargling, also the cleaning is simple: very bright fine ash with little unburned tobaccocrumbs and - surprisingly for a flavored tobacco! - no condensate.

Redolency:
The redolency of the Cruise Line is aromatic and sweet. For non smokers this is often seen as a pleasant "typical pipe fragrance", which is why it should be tolerated in society.

Conclusion:
The Cruise Line is a tobacco, composed both of finer as well as coarser constituents and is perhaps a little too moist. The sweet smell first remindes not necessarily at the chocolate indicated by the manufacturer, in smoke pleasant enigmatic chocolate flavor would nonetheless be to taste in addition to the nutty aromas of tobacco and the sweet notes, which holds long. Apart from the uneven cut and the moisture, make the balanced flavor and the - for an aromatic - uncomplicated smoking behavior the Cruise Line appeals to be a tobacco, which will meet with grateful consumers in lovers of flavored tobaccos, but also open-minded "nature lovers", too.

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