Amphora Virginia (Mac Baren) - Tobacco’s Review — Transcript

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1. 0:28Alessio. Regi Salia Stony Spipe,
2. 0:31we’re all with you. Hang in there
3. 0:35against the keyboard warriors who
4. 0:41follow Alessio’s channel and, let’s
5. 0:45say, sent reports because YouTube works
6. 0:49like crap, so someone explain to them
7. 0:55that it’s not meant for those under
8. 0:5618. The fact is, he smokes a pipe.
9. 0:59There’s all sorts of garbage on
10. 1:02YouTube, but he smokes a pipe. Your
11. 1:07channel is dangerous for minors and so
12. 1:10you even risk a total channel closure.
13. 1:13Anyway, I don’t have my headphones
14. 1:16today, I forgot them, so I’ll try to
15. 1:21keep my voice a bit louder for you to
16. 1:23talk about today’s tobacco. An
17. 1:27extremely popular tobacco, as you’ll
18. 1:29have read in the title. Here it is. My
19. 1:35God! Perhaps one of the most
20. 1:38talked-about tobaccos on the web, the
21. 1:44famous Amphora Virginia, known to most
22. 1:46as the "big yellow one" for its
23. 1:48packaging, which is indeed golden
24. 1:51yellow, and rather nice too. It really
25. 1:56is one of the most discussed, not in a
26. 1:58negative sense, but in terms of so many
27. 2:00people smoking it and, I’m sorry to
28. 2:03say, thinking they’re smoking a good
29. 2:05tobacco. Here it is. So we’ll jump
30. 2:09right into the heart of the review.
31. 2:16I’ll show it to you as usual. It’s
32. 2:29a rather dark tobacco. Here it is. And
33. 2:40Virginia, as the text says here. It
34. 2:46consists of Virginia sourced from three
35. 2:50continents, carefully selected and,
36. 2:54let’s say, utilized by a master
37. 3:00blender, and Amphora Virginia is a
38. 3:04well-balanced pipe tobacco.
39. 3:09Well-balanced. We agree. It’s not bad
40. 3:15, gentlemen, it’s not bad. Can I say
41. 3:20this tobacco is bad? After all, Capstan
42. 3:36is € 16. How much is this one? € 12
43. 3:40, I think. They’re in the same
44. 3:44ballpark. Dunhill Flake. Maybe that’s
45. 3:48a bit better, with more intact, more
46. 3:51intense flavors. This is, let’s say,
47. 3:56a ribbon, a broken flake, very broken,
48. 3:59or a ribbon. It’s not bad. I can’t
49. 4:04say it’s bad, but if you think there
50. 4:07are people who say, “Oh, I can’t
51. 4:10live without Amphora Virginia,” well,
52. 4:15what are good Virginias to you? Because
53. 4:22if this is a pure Virginia tobacco that
54. 4:26you can’t do without, well, I don’t
55. 4:30know. I mean, when you try the HH Pure
56. 4:35Virginia, which just recently arrived,
57. 4:39as well as the Five Years Mature
58. 4:43Virginia from McConnel, as well as the
59. 4:49legendary giants like Virginia Flake,
60. 4:52Bright Flake, Golden Glow, Best Brown
61. 4:57...How do they compare? I mean, how can
62. 5:04one put them together? I’m not sure
63. 5:07how I’ll rate it. A passing grade, I
64. 5:10think, is fair. But it's a pass only
65. 5:14because I have to bring it up; let's
66. 5:15say it's a pass pretending I’ve never
67. 5:17smoked a Virginia flake before. Good,
68. 5:20really good, because this can't be just
69. 5:24three points below the 8.5 of a Full
70. 5:27Virginia Flake. I mean, this should be
71. 5:31at least 8 points away. If the Full
72. 5:34Virginia Flake is an 8.5, and for some
73. 5:36even more. For me, clearly, if I had to
74. 5:40make a serious ranking, this should be
75. 5:42at a two or three, but that wouldn't be
76. 5:45fair because it’s not a bad tobacco.
77. 5:49I understand those who use it for home
78. 5:52blends because it’s a low price with
79. 5:55a good yield. It has the entire basic
80. 6:00range of Virginia scents, both on the
81. 6:03nose very grassy and a bit chocolatey,
82. 6:09if you will. A hint of walnut. These
83. 6:17are the scents, somewhat classic, with
84. 6:20that classic note of ripe cherry
85. 6:21tomatoes dampened, which the Gawith
86. 6:24Virginias have, and in my opinion are
87. 6:26better; they have this push, even a bit
88. 6:28acidic from the tomato, a bit less in
89. 6:30this case, and yet smoked: it's a basic
90. 6:38tobacco, it gives you a range of flavor
91. 6:42tending towards the sweetish. A rather
92. 6:45sweet Virginia. In this bit of Virginia
93. 6:51sweetness, having no great variability
94. 6:54or movement of flavors, for me, as you
95. 6:57well know, I smoke only one tobacco at
96. 7:00a time, it quickly and easily became
97. 7:03tiresome. Third day, fourth day: it was
98. 7:07complicated. I mean, if you smoke it
99. 7:10once a day, maybe not, but when the
100. 7:12weekend comes, or a day you can smoke
101. 7:14it more, if you make me smoke this four
102. 7:17times a day, by the fourth time, I’d
103. 7:19rather shoot myself in the leg than
104. 7:22smoke it again. Meaning it’s a very
105. 7:25flat, very boring, very basic tobacco,
106. 7:27so it's good for blending, or good if
107. 7:30you have a little smoke every now and
108. 7:32then. It performs well, actually, but,
109. 7:35my friends, I mean, smoke some serious
110. 7:38tobaccos. To call this a great Virginia
111. 7:41...I mean, I really read things about
112. 7:43this tobacco where it seems like people
113. 7:45have been smoking...they probably have
114. 7:48no comparisons, so it's hard to say,
115. 7:50and it's not fair of me to say they're
116. 7:52wrong, but smoke serious Virginias
117. 7:54before saying this is a great tobacco.
118. 7:58This is a tobacco that has an excellent
119. 8:02price-quality ratio, but it is worth
120. 8:04exactly what you pay for it. It is a
121. 8:08low-end tobacco and that is the job it
122. 8:10does. Low-end. If one is easily
123. 8:15satisfied if one has tried anything
124. 8:20more, one cannot enjoy it. It's fine.
125. 8:24As for the rest. Good smokeability.
126. 8:27Nicotine isn't particularly full, 2.5
127. 8:29out of 5 more or less, in short, a
128. 8:31fairly light tobacco. If you really
129. 8:34have no alternative and want to save
130. 8:36money, I bought it like that because I
131. 8:39was really very curious. I had smoked a
132. 8:42couple of bowls years ago, everyone
133. 8:43talks about it so much that I said
134. 8:45let's try this Amphora Virginia, never
135. 8:47done it. Oh well, it will finish and
136. 8:51I'll go back to smoking tobaccos that
137. 8:54are tastier for my liking.