Deliciousness in rizla (Old Holborn)

Member Name: Zombietheo

Product:	Old Holborn
Date:	21/07/09 (221 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: smell and taste sensation

Disadvantages: mental association with old men

mm, the smell of pipe tobacco and ground angels.

This is perhaps the best of all tobacco's ever made or smoked, from the outset you know you're in for a treat with it's shiny, ever so shiny packaging - that .jpg doesn't do the the shinyness of the midnight blue packaging justice and that awesome elephant on the front or back.

It reeks of history (Richard Llyod & Son having established the firm in 1932) and excellent taste; on opening the packet you may be lucky to have some flashback to christmas days with plum pudding and the old grandfather smoking his pipe...or just the smell of rich, sweet tobacco goodness. It smells very good to me, but thats probably memory association.

It's a finely cut dark Virginia tobacco and may be harsh at first or produce a 'bit of a head rush'. It's good in a rolly and equally good in a pipe.

Where as Amber Leaf may smell like honey, this smells a bit more like rum and raisin.

It's much moister than other tobaccos which seem dry and flaky (Amber Leaf, Golden Virginia, and Cutters Choice and this seems to add to the flavour and holds it's moisture well despite the lack of a zip-lock. It has a strong full taste and is very nice with licorice rizla and a plain old extra slim filter. Menthol filters aren't too bad, if you're into that sort of thing, but does seem to have an odd juxtaposition which may liven up the mouths of some jaded long term smoker...emphasis on the may

Now some verifiable fact; it was owned by the Gallaher group who are now owned by Japan Tobacco International who at the time of writing have a stock value of 278,200 ¥ (TSE). This seems good. It's also one of the top 5 popular tobacco products in the UK (the blue one) and the yellow, milder, one is somewhere at the top in Greece. If not at the top.

It's easy to see why, it smells classy and distinctive, goes nicely with old spice and the optional pipe and most importantly it's consistent and has been throughout at least the last 12 years i've been smoking it..

Summary: a tast treat thats better than the dredge in Cutters Choice and Drum