Nicotiana Rustica

Nicotiana Rustica, AKA Mapacho AKA Indian Tobacco AKA Wild Tobacco...

I'm sure y'all have read about this stuff, and if not, I recommend that you do so. This is a cousin of Nicotiana Tabacum whom we all know and love as regular tobacco, except it's 10-20x as strong in the vitamin N department, and not quite as refined flavorwise.

Anyway, curiosity got the better of me and I had to give it a try. I picked up a couple 2 oz rolls, in the form of ~2" segments of a roll about 2" in diameter.

http://i.imgur.com/PzvTM8N.jpg

It came very dry, but according to another reviewer on tobaccoreviews.com, it's best to leave it that way. It was tough to slice without crushing it, even with my very sharp Kulu knife. I got out my smallest-bowled pipe, a German vintage briar of some kind - here's a pic of the pipe next to my blending bowl and a torch lighter for size reference.

http://i.imgur.com/SxnJt2r.jpg

So I gathered up my courage, stuffed the bowl and lit. The flavor is tobacco-like, but somewhat harsh and although not sweet, not real bitter either. I would compare it to burley but without the sour notes. The burn went well - burned clean, no relights, and just a little ash left behind. No tongue or mouth bite.

http://i.imgur.com/mAHa9QN.jpg

The real story is Uncle Nick. Whooee! After one small bowl I was at about where one would be after 3/4 of an LFD Digger. I can feel the hair growing on my chest, no, I can hear it growing! So yes, it's everything they said it would be.

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Originally Posted by Bruck

Nicotiana Rustica, AKA Mapacho AKA Indian Tobacco AKA Wild Tobacco...

I'm sure y'all have read about this stuff, and if not, I recommend that you do so. This is a cousin of Nicotiana Tabacum whom we all know and love as regular tobacco, except it's 10-20x as strong in the vitamin N department, and not quite as refined flavorwise.

Anyway, curiosity got the better of me and I had to give it a try. I picked up a couple 2 oz rolls, in the form of ~2" segments of a roll about 2" in diameter.

http://i.imgur.com/PzvTM8N.jpg

It came very dry, but according to another reviewer on tobaccoreviews.com, it's best to leave it that way. It was tough to slice without crushing it, even with my very sharp Kulu knife. I got out my smallest-bowled pipe, a German vintage briar of some kind - here's a pic of the pipe next to my blending bowl and a torch lighter for size reference.

http://i.imgur.com/SxnJt2r.jpg

So I gathered up my courage, stuffed the bowl and lit. The flavor is tobacco-like, but somewhat harsh and although not sweet, not real bitter either. I would compare it to burley but without the sour notes. The burn went well - burned clean, no relights, and just a little ash left behind. No tongue or mouth bite.

http://i.imgur.com/mAHa9QN.jpg

The real story is Uncle Nick. Whooee! After one small bowl I was at about where one would be after 3/4 of an LFD Digger. I can feel the hair growing on my chest, no, I can hear it growing! So yes, it's everything they said it would be.

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You think one could mix it with something else, and are you sane enough to have a hankering what that tobacco would be?....

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Originally Posted by droy1958

You think one could mix it with something else, and are you sane enough to have a hankering what that tobacco would be?....

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I'm thinking along the lines of, what tobacco could use a little more nic kick? Cavendishes and straight VAs tend toward the mild end - a little of this could amp it up a bit.

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Originally Posted by Bruck

I'm thinking along the lines of, what tobacco could use a little more nic kick? Cavendishes and straight VAs tend toward the mild end - a little of this could amp it up a bit.

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Thank you....

Try a pinch 'twixt the cheek n gum!

Also, where'd you get it? I wouldn't mind having a few oz on hand to beef up a weakling blend, although I usually uae SG ropes for that.

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Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg

Try a pinch 'twixt the cheek n gum!

Also, where'd you get it? I wouldn't mind having a few oz on hand to beef up a weakling blend, although I usually uae SG ropes for that.

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Not quite have the nerve to try it as chaw yet. I believe the place I got it was visionaryherbs.com. Had to do the transaction by e-mail and phone as their website ordering didn't work. Reason for my uncertainty - the people who sell it seem to have multiple companies under multiple names, and different ones come up with different search engines and terms. Good luck!

Well I just hid my ball bag for safekeeping and mixed this half and half with some Daughters & Ryan Three Sails and stuffed it in a WDC Milano. Actually tastes pretty damn good with a few vodka's. Kind of feel like I'm outta' debt........

Update: Gone to straight tobacco taste with a slight sweet finish. Mouth and tongue are tingling......still outta' debt, but with a slight sweat building up.....

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Originally Posted by droy1958

Well I just hid my ball bag for safekeeping and mixed this half and half with some Daughters & Ryan Three Sails and stuffed it in a WDC Milano. Actually tastes pretty damn good with a few vodka's. Kind of feel like I'm outta' debt........

Update: Gone to straight tobacco taste with a slight sweet finish. Mouth and tongue are tingling......still outta' debt, but with a slight sweat building up.....

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Very good - you owe it to yourself to try just a little bit of it straight (and you owe it to us to write about it :))

Nice review, love your kulu knife! :chainsaw:

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Originally Posted by Bruck

Very good - you owe it to yourself to try just a little bit of it straight (and you owe it to us to write about it :))

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Straight up may be harder than woodpecker lips to finish...