Here's my second review of these tobacco treasures, the pink (magenta?) U:

Details-
Date: April 8, 2015
Name: cpmcdill
Tobacco: Pink U C&D Exclusive
Pipe: Marxman straight bulldog
Site: Indoors

Observations-
Examination (how it looked, felt and smelled).
Upon opening the bag (great packaging, Pete!) I took a deep whiff. WOnderful odors of at least three different tobaccos. My first guess is Virginia, Perique, and a faint smokey hint of either Latakia or dark fired Kentucky. Not sure because it's so subtle.
The tobacco is a ribbon-cut blend of yellow, medium brown, and dark brown bits, with the medium brown dominating. The moisture level seems perfect and smoke-ready.


Preparation (how did you prepare and pack it).
I did not set it out to dry, as it seems quite ready to smoke. Used the standard three-stage packing method, got plenty into the bowl, and the cold draw was fine.

Burn:
This time instead of matches I used a standard Zippo lighter. Whereas I may be inclined to use matches on flake tobacco, I find that a ribbon cut lights just fine with a lighter. After the first light and tamp, it was still burning but I touched it up anyway. Only one relight as noted below.

Flavor:
From the first light, mouthfuls of delicious smoke. Sweet, spicy, with minor bitter notes. No distinct latakia flavor, but nevertheless a subtle low end presence. At the first quarter the sweetness begins to taper, and more peppery notes step in. About 60% through and it went out due to the burden of ashes, so I dumped them and relit. Th flavors kept on as before. My mouth did start to feel dry by this point, so I sipped some lemonade from here on. In the last quarter it held the semi-sweet, peppery and slightly bitter notes, with no smokey character emerging. Some dottle at the end.

Comments and conclusion: Overall a pleasant smoke. I would definitely smoke more of this. Eager to find out what I've been smoking.