5 out of 5 Perfect coins, great taste, easy Perfect coins, great taste, easy burn, not too moist, not dry. If you like slices, and I do, you could smoke it all dayl

4 out of 5 Good easy to fill you Good easy to fill you bowl because of the string shape but a lite too strong for my taste. mor for cold weather in my pinion.

5 out of 5 Always good. Always good.

5 out of 5 One of my New Favorites So I mostly go for Burley blends and in fact do not typically enjoy Virginia or perrique For that matter. But for some weird reason, this is such a sublime smoke for mid morning or afternoon. Not too spicy and has just a touch of sweetness. Love that my mouth doesn’t have an unpleasant aftertaste when done with a bowl.

5 out of 5 Fantastic After only trying to say little while back it now has a permanent spot in the usual rotation. Little to no tongue bite and fantastic flavor from start to finish.

5 out of 5 Smells so good I want to eat it. Never smelt tobacco like this. It has a sweet citrus smell that offers a light hay like, citrusy, tangy smoke. Very good quality. Burns well and tastes amazing. Good for early morning / afternoon.

5 out of 5 Good, smooth, and great flavor Good, smooth, and great flavor with a little extra. I will certainly purchase it again and again

5 out of 5 I can[t smoke aromatic so I can[t smoke aromatic so this tobacco suits me great.

5 out of 5 Perfect blend Smooth as a well sanded desk in a private boutique San Francisco library

4 out of 5 Good smoke A nice light smoke for any time of the day

5 out of 5 A classic Like Escudo needs another review...it's excellent and only gets better. No need to be on the fence with this one.

5 out of 5 All time favorite This is my all time favorite smoke. Very pleasant and flavorful.

5 out of 5 Great smoke Wonderful tobacco...smooth and tasty, but kind of a hassle to prepare

5 out of 5 Enjoyable Good blend it is sweet but not overpowering. I have enjoyed it in the morning with a cup of coffee. It behaves well for me in a corn cob pipe no tongue bite and taste great throughout the entire bowl.

4 out of 5 I recently ordered half a I recently ordered half a dozen tins for my cellar after not having smoked it for 6-8 years. It’s still great, but doesn’t have the strength it once had. It’s a bit sweeter and a bit lighter in nicotine level. The flavor is fantastic, I just wish it still had the umpfh it once had.

5 out of 5 A latakia fiend's perique blend The definitive perique blend for when I want a different taste (full disclosure: I'm a latakia junkie).

5 out of 5 New favorite This might be my new favorite tobacco. It smokes cool and has a semi sweet, bready, somewhat spicy flavor to it. I have smoked a lot of aromatics, and have only really tried one pure Virginia. This was my first Va/Per, and I am about to order several more tins of this. I like aromatics, I like English blends, but I can't say enough good things about Escudo Navy De Luxe.

5 out of 5 Great smoke Great smoke

5 out of 5 Excellent Excellent

5 out of 5 Dr. Dot sez two thumbs up An absolute must-have for the perique fans.

5 out of 5 My go to VaPer. My go to VaPer.

5 out of 5 Escudo Love the grassy hey nots. Burns well. I like to fold and stuff into a large Meershum pipe. Part of my rotation. Have purchased several tins in the last several months.

5 out of 5 pure tobacco pure tobacco

5 out of 5 Great for the intermediate pipe smoker. The tobacco that helped hone in on the type of pipe tobacco that I enjoy smoking. Has a great aroma while in the can, smoked smooth and cool if packed right, was a mix between heavy and light smoke and was actually one of the first pipe tobaccos that gave me a little nicotine kick. Having to work out these rolls by rubbing them between my fingers before packing my pipe added to the relaxing nature. I am still experiencing May blends and makes but I have added this to my “buy again” list. Just writing about it makes me crave it again.

5 out of 5 A Perfect Blend? I Think So. This is my desert island tobacco. This is the gold standard for VaPer's. The taste is phenomenal and the even and slow burn in the pipe is unparalleled. This is a tobacco you can sip all day long. If you're only smoking aromatics and want to try something new, this is your tobacco.

5 out of 5 Simple, yet remarkably satisfying As a new pipe smoker, this is the tobacco that shifted me from automatics to Virginia's. I love the taste and presentation of this tobacco. It's the first one that I feel I need to start stock piling. This is a winner and should be in everyone's rotation.

5 out of 5 Very nice Very nice

3 out of 5 Pipe is very comfortable and Pipe is very comfortable and loads nice bowl

5 out of 5 Fantastic! Fantastic!

5 out of 5 OLD PIPE TABACCO OLD PIPE TABACCO

5 out of 5 Excellent Blend!! This is my first experience with a Virginia/Perique blend. Truly great stuff!! To me it smells like freshly baked bread in the tin, just as it has been described in other reviews I've read. Very mellow - actually tastes just about what it smells like. No bite, no burn whatsoever. Just don't pack it too tightly, as I did the first time around or you'll be tamping and relighting too often. I smoked it in a Savinelli 624KS Toscana, and a coin and a half was more than sufficient to fill the bowl. As this was also my first experience with coin tobacco, I simply folded them, packed them in and lit up. Will be one of my favorite non-aromatics ever and will definitely buy more to put down for awhile. Thanks for reading.

5 out of 5 Great quality and muted spicy notes. Great every day smoke. I haven't cellared this one, so I'm not sure what it would taste like.

5 out of 5 Sweet and spicy warm bread. This blend will definitely be one of my top 3 Va/Pers. The smell from the tin is very mild, grassy like a nice rasin bran cereal or a fig newton. Once lit, it stays lit but does smoke a bit hot. There as some tongue bite but probably because the delicious sweet and very lightly spiced scent of warm sweetened figs and bread had me puffin like a maniac lol. Highly recommend to someone moving to a VA/Per or away from or taking a break from aromatics and burley based. Not really recommending this to a newbie in general as the nicotine does kick if you don't watch out.

4 out of 5 Sweet and Spicy VaPers I love this VaPer! This blend is a perfect balance of sweet and spicy. It has a nice complexity of flavors with figgy-ness up front and some spice and pepper morphing in towards the finish. Mine came with the perfect amount of moisture to fold and stuff. I'm enjoying it very much.

5 out of 5 Escudo Navy Delixe It’s the best... Service & product was excellent.

5 out of 5 Good! Very good! Good! Very good!

5 out of 5 Simple in the best sort of way Thick, rich, pleasant clouds of tobacco smoke. When I think of a pipe tobacco that is simple but in a good way, I think of Escudo. Burns nicely with no bite and has substantial nicotine even for a non-inhaler such as myself. The coin slices ensure a consistent mixture and the mixture is classic tobacco greatness. I reach for it everytime when I want an "unflavoured" tobacco.

5 out of 5 Well balanced savory Great medium body/full flavored Smokes wells Very enjoyable

5 out of 5 Escudo tobacco I love this tobacco. Mr. Pete--------> aging hippie

5 out of 5 Excellent Wasn't sure what I thought about this at first but now I love it with a blend with my favorite aromatics. It is a very high quality tobacco with a great flavor.

5 out of 5 Smooth smoke Great smoke has a nice sweet Virginia, with a slightly greasy hay flavor and a little sweet and sour recommend this as a blend for new pipe smokers

5 out of 5 Excellent smoke I have been looking for a Virginia/Perique blended tobacco and when a friend mentioned he loved Escudo but couldn't find it anymore, I looked and here it was! I tried it and it is a good, honest, smoke. Can't wait to share some with him accompanied by a nice scotch!

5 out of 5 Escudo navy I bought this for my husband's birthday, it is one of his favorites!!

3 out of 5 Overrated A fine blend but nothing special. I suppose I'm in the minority on this one but personally I found it quite tasteless with almost no body to the smoke. Very little spice on the perique to. Not much sweetness. Only around the very bottom did things finally ever get interesting. On the upside seems to have easy cool burn and the preflight aroma is very interesting. Very heavy apricot smell to the tobacco.

5 out of 5 Delicious Just finishing my first bowl of this stuff. Trusted the reviews -- am glad I did so. Beautiful little coins of golden brown tobacco. Starts sweet and smoky and finishes off dark and peppery. Would smoke this all day if I could afford it.

5 out of 5 One of the Best VA/Per Navy Flakes Out There Someone described the flavor of Oscuro as fig-like. Good description. I've always described it as plum-like. Either way, this comes out naturally, by processing the Perique with heat, NOT by adding unnatural, sugary flavorings that do nothing but burn your palate. I like to smoke Oscuro in large bowls that allow me to fold the whole coins rather than rubbing them out. This way you taste the nuances of each type of tobacco rather than a single, monolithic flavor, unchanging from first light to last. (I fold all flakes of all types whenever possible for this reason). While I am primarily a Balkan and Latakia smoker, I do smoke quite a few VA/Per tobaccos. Oscuro is perhaps the one I've smoked steadily for the longest, and it is surely the best.

5 out of 5 Very good If you like Virginia/Perique blends, you should try this one. I know it is a little more costly than others, but the extra dollars seem to reflect a higher quality tobacco in this case.

5 out of 5 Good stuff I really like this stuff.

5 out of 5 GreT tobacco!! GreT tobacco!!