(originally posted by @JustTroItIn )

This is the only one of my reviews that I could recover so I will be smoking me some P&S Peaches and Cream and Jose Gener La Escepcion for a repeat review within the next week or two.

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Tonight I'm reviewing Butera's Royal Vintage Golden Cake dated 1993. I was a Sophomore in high school when this tobacco was purchased. Golden Cake is a broken flake Virginia. The tin note smells slightly of Vanilla. I have smoked three bowls of this sample. One in a Savinelli Alligator 310, another in a Grabow Lark, and the last in an MM Patriot cob with Forever Stem. I think the cob did this tobacco the most justice.

I found the strength to be on the mild to medium side. The flavor is sweet, uniform, and had notes of honey. I would occasionally get a tangy flavor on the tail end of exhale. This tobacco has a consistent flavor all the way to the bottom of the bowl. Virginia's can be bitey and the years haven't taken the teeth out of this blend. Even smoking as slowly as I could without allowing the fire to extinguish I would get that tingle on every puff.





Overall, I found it to be an excellent Virginia flake. The only draw back for me was the potential for tongue bite if I wasn't paying as much attention to the bowl as it deserved.

Thank you very much for the sample!