G.L. Pease: GASLIGHT 2oz

Just love it.

Background: inveterate pipe smoker (I'm 70+): many; many, many pipes & many , many tobaccos.
Comparison benchmark (from ye olde days): Balkan Sobranie Mixture #759 or Dunhill My Mixture #965
Review: Extremely disappointed. Yes, I know how to rub-out pressed cakes & yes, I tried this in both older (Castello) & newer (Tsuge) pipes.
I've wanted to try this for years, but it was a major let down from light-up to dottle. Smelled like horse-dung (& that's a compliment!), but the smoke was, at best 2-dimensional.
Yeah, latakia was there...English, .kind-of, but I unfortunately was not carried back to Victorian London, much less contemporary London. I could not fathom any complexity or depth to this smoke....I did try. By comparison, Seattle Pipe Club's Plum Pudding was four-dimensional -- I was back in old London & I could taste all the complex layers a great tobacco should possess -- maybe it was the perique that did it. Sorry, Gary, but I feel like I was "gaslighted" by all the + reviews I've read. Not saying others didn't find it delightful, but
I gotta say, I just didn't get the hype on this blend. This didn't come within miles of my benchmark tobaccos.

All scent tastes are the highest!

Табак просто шедевр. Запах из банки великолепный. Когда отрезал кусочек, он мне напомнил Пензанс. Очень вкусный , насыщенный , ароматный табак. Рекомендую пробовать. Пять звезд.

This may be Mr. Pease's finest creation yet. It is a full English dominated by latakia. Nevertheless, it is characterized by a remarkable smoothness which lasts throughout the smoking experience. Never bites. It is like Penzance but tastier. The finest white ash at the bottom of the bowl testifies to the quality of the tobaccos. By compressing the tobacco into one-ounce bars, Mr. Pease has enhanced the richness and consistency of the blend.It may seem cumbersome to deal with cutting flakes from the bars to prepare this blend for smoking, but they slice off easily and, since this is a very long lasting smoke, it is well worth the effort. Congratulations on creating a new work of art in the pantheon of this master blender.