Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Kendal Gold Coffee Caramel

Kendal Gold is the umbrella name for the shag-cut tobacco family Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. produces in the town of Kendal in England's Lake District. The family's body is built from Brazilian- and Indian-origin, heat-cured light Virginia leaf; largely stripped of stem, it's cut into fine golden strands. The producer steams and softens the tobacco, cuts it, toasts it on a hot cylinder, and then applies the top flavoring — so the family's members are versions of the same body offered with different scents. This version adds a coffee-and-caramel flavoring to the series' Virginia body; it's listed under the name Coffee Caramel in the producer's bulk-tobacco list. The roasted-coffee scent combines with caramel's sugary roundness, with the leaf's own herbal, honeyed sweetness underneath. The fine shag cut lights quickly and resists going out; since it burns fast, slow smoking is needed. Nicotine is measured.