Pontefract Priory The base tobacco for this snuff is Black Cavendish blended with flue cured Burley, Zimbabwe and Bright Leaf Virginia, sauced with a syrup made by simmering liquorice roots in Muscovado sugar and cased with an extract of liquorice roots suspended in alcohol for six months. Decoctions of the liquorice shrub Glycyrrhiza glabra, had been the universal cure-all for pulmonary complaints since antiquity. Liquorice shrubs were first introduced to Britain in the early 12th century by Spanish monks from the Cluniac monastery in Sahagún, as a gift for their brethren in the newly founded priory at Pontefract. The plants thrived there and were soon established in the herb garths of other monastic houses in Yorkshire. The origin of the sweet loved by children dates from the 1700’s, when George Dunhill, an apothecary in Pontefract, added sugar to a decoction of liquorice root to create a form of cough lozenge. In rural Yorkshire and Lancashire, liquorice is still always referred to as “Spanish”.

DAMN!! That sounds wonderful. Heading to Mr. Snuff now. Update: Mr. Snuff site isn’t working for me right now, so Andrea the Angel is on the case. She’ll get it fixed. As usual Andrea got the problem solved quickly. She really is an angel.

Wonderful artistic creation indeed. Much labor in such a snuff.

yup, rejecting my c card

Wonderful artistic creation indeed. Much labor in such a snuff.

From what my nose tells me, quite often, is that Sir Johnny is not adverse to hard work when crafting snuff. I’m getting excited already. Good luck @Mouse

yup, rejecting my c card

update…I couldn’t place an order successfully (credit card issue) using my new chromebook but had no problem on firefox on my old netbook. Any others have a similar problem, just wondering if it is a chromebook issue.

:-h

@mouse use the payment method “alternative processor” on the Chromebook

Great timing! Been putting together another EU order for sometime this week. I was planning on mostly sampling Indian snuffs this time, but this one MUST go on! Licorice without the menthol… I’ve been searching for this since I started Thanks for the heads up, @Johnny

Orderd today looking forward to this!

Being up in Yorkshire now I’ve got to give this a go. As Hitsuzen said, liquorice without menthol was a definite gap in the market.

I was fortunate enough to try some of this recently and it really is splendid snuff; the liquorice is perfectly balanced and works beautifully with the rich flour. Delicious.

Ah… A new SWS offering: Can’t wait! I feel [another] snuff buying spee in the offing

@MrSnuff - Cheers for that Dave Just put my order in, if it arrives nice and quickly I pop a review on for you too!

Mines here didn’t take long.48hrs spot on.not tried it yet.

Very good snuff indeed.If you like liquorice sweets you will love this.but more than just liquorice to it.very nicely balanced and rich undertones of the tabacco come through perfectly. Something very different which I like.another masterpiece.

Ah Ha! @snuffykib am a big fan of liquorice; proper excited for this one to arrive @Johnny 's snuff are all fantastic to be fair ^:)^

@MisterPaul It reminds me of old memories when my gran handed out the liquorice alsorts after tea on a Sunday .I’m sure you will love this.

My father and grandfather’s favourite sweets liquorice allsorts, as regrettably they have both passed now I’m sure that this will hit a special spot for me too. Cheers for the review, very informative

Still waiting for some artisan to make a strong snuff flavored with horehound.

@Mouse - Interesting thought… I’m not terribly familiar with it other than the cough sweet type…

@MisterPaul My Uncle works at what was Bassetts (now Cadbury) and has been making liquorice allsorts and the other sweets there, all his life since leaving school.

@50ft_trad - Wow! Yeah, it’s odd really, both Grandpa and my dad were huge fans. Even at a loss for a Bday or Christmas present, either of them appreciated a tin of Bassetts. Must be great to work in an industry with such a lovely tradition; sadly missing from todays working lifestyles eh?

Please review this when you have a chance. Indeed SWS snuffs in general need more reviews from you guys (pretty please).

@MrSnuff Send me any snuff you like me to review and I will give it my fair unbiased assessment.

So the new offering from Sir @Johnny Walter Scott’s: The Pontefract Priory blend arrived on my mat this morning (My thanks to Dave @MrSnuff the charming Andrea @MrSnuffCS for the prompt delivery). I was in no state this morning to appreciate such a fine offering, so wisely left it until later in the day to sample it. As always with SWS blends the tin note is captivating and you can catch the liquorice in the scent profile straight away. It’s a dark, moist and on the finer side of mid-ground. I reckon that liquorice is a bold casing choice that could have gone very wrong; however, as usual @Johnny 's skills in blending snuff shine through here. There’s no overpowering sweetness and the liquorice isn’t at all cloying. It kind of reminds me of a very fine, dark fired and mildly aromatic pipe tobacco scent (I guess due to the flue cured Burley & Zimbabwe leaf) with the liquorice and Cavendish portions of the blend mediating and balancing the strong and robust scents of the former. There’s a hint of Mull of Oa in the base flour to me (though without the single malt element and not so ‘peaty’) but still nicely smoky, in the SWS range I’d place this somewhere between Mull of Oa and the Trice Brewed blend. To me the leaf is the star here; just amazing tobacco scents, rich and decadent, but refined, without being over complicated. In summary another quality artisan snuff delight for the snuff enthusiast from SWS

Lordy! Sell my clothes. I just died and gone to heaven. The leaf is absolutely the star of the show, and real licorice, as opposed to it’s sometimes silly counterpart anise, is applied with a steady hand. The cavendish lays a natural sweet foundation for the other tobaccos to build on. I get some nice high notes of Virginia, a bit of nuttiness from the burley and a nice blast of licorice that reminds me of Black Jack chewing gum I used to get in the good old days of primary school. It stained your entire mouth black, but the smell and flavor were unique and delicious. I did a short stint at a Swensen’s Ice Cream parlor while in high school and they had a genuine, real, actual licorice ice cream that did a fine job of staining everything it came into contact with. This snuff is in this same realm, but far and above a mere confection. I’m going to break a rule and try it with some good strong black coffee right now. So, don’t be surprised if I am posting hereabouts at Zero Dark Thirty rambling on in a caffeine and nicotine induced haze…not surprising, really. That’s my usual state. Off to Mr. Snuff for a few more big tins

This stuff is delicious. I cannot recommend enough. I used liquorice papers when I used to smoke so I very much appreciate this expertly blended snuff.

The liquorice casing and sauce note comes through nicely on top with an alluring cigarette tobacco under tone. One pinch is not enough!

I’ll be ordering the large tin next time around.