Solani Aged Burley Flake is a blend of burley leaf from Kentucky, Brazil and Malawi with a lightly added cocoa and liquorice topping. The blend of specially selected premium tobacco are matured, roasted, pressed and heated in a unique manner to create a cake which is then sliced into flakes after 6 weeks. These flakes are sumptuous, naturally sweet, woody, nutty with a hint of spice. The lightly added liquorice and cocoa flavourings add both complexity and depth to the blend. Medium in terms of its strength and nicotine content the blend smokes cool and clean.

Blend Description

• Cut – Flake
• Blend – Burley
• Flavour – Cocoa, Licorice
• Strength – Medium

Presented in a 50g tin Solani Aged Burley Flake is thinly sliced and will quite often be presented in the tin as a broken flake. The tobacco should not require any additional drying before loading into the pipe. You can prepare this flake tobacco in a number of ways:

Folding and stuffing. Fold the flake in half long ways against the grain of the flake. Fold the flake in half again this time with the grain to form a square. Gently squeeze the tobacco before stuffing into the pipe bowl.

Rubbing out. Rub the flake gently between the hands to break up the flake to desired thickness before loading the pipe.

Rolling. Roll the flake with the grain generally lengthwise, squeeze gently and load into the pipe bowl.

To fully appreciate the flavour and taste we recommend that the mixture is smoked at a slow pace to

• prevent the tobacco burning hot which will impair the taste and aroma,
• cause the pipe to overheat potentially causing the dreaded tongue bite.