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Chocolate

AJL 11/15/06

 

The way I heard it, this snuff was originally made for a Harrod’s department store “Chocolate Festival” as a one-time custom item. Enough snuffers kept asking for it that Gawith added it to regular production thereafter. That’s the story, anyway.

 

Gawith Chocolate is dark brown, medium grind, and medium moisture. Its chocolate-liqueur aroma, similar to Godiva, is noticeable long before the snuff approaches one’s nose— even in a well-fitted snuffbox in my pocket, I can smell that it’s there.

 

One would think that a snuff designed as a novelty item for chocolate-lovers would be sissified, but this is not the case. It’s a serious snuff, with good nicotine content and a fairly strong burn.

 

This snuff offers some subtle complexities— there are times when I’m certain that I detect a note of coffee lurking in the background, and other times I’m equally certain that there is no such thing. The hints of vanilla I’m more convinced of , but then the chocolate itself would be responsible for that. The tobacco is undetectable except through the nicotine effects.

 

A good all-day snuff, even though the flavor lingers a little longer than I would like— not overwhelmingly, though, like floral snuffs will sometimes do. It’s quite easy on the nose and blows out fairly cleanly.

 

 

 

This snuff is available from  “My Smoking Shop.”