Seems a thing to wait a few months...bought this awhile back, blending with VFC, VFC w/Perique, "started with a little, and a little got more and more". First and most important note is to thouroughly clean and inspect especially dark leaf tobacco; found a little bit of wildlife; bag in the freezer for a week takes care of things (poor, poor little spider and whatever prey he was changing). That being said...I love this burley, leaves were in nice condition once cleaned (nice enough to wrap a stoagie, which I might).
Years ago I had a German version of burley, and it had a really nice soft honey smell to it. Now I know, it's Red Tip. The smell of this leaf is beyond the average burley, it's doesn't have the funky not quite ready smell to it; this mildly smells sweet, like honey liqueur, with a more aged tobacco smell (think fine cigars). Don't let the smell fool you, it packs a major nic punch, and REALLY adds a nice mild bass note to your smoke (mixing up to 15% of the red tip in to a blend). This is the answer to VFC bite, but unlike regular burley, it brings a little more flavoring, a little closer to using dark(er) air cureds..but sweeter, with that cigar nicotine punch. I actually cut down the amount of VFC red I was mixing in; gives that punch I want but a little softer on the palette than good old Viginian Red Leaf.
Definitely a unique and wonderful tobacco, worth the work that always seems to come with DAC; Bought a pound, which will last me a year, but I'm already thinking another pound into storage, let it age.
