I just got a half pound of both the Sherry and the Toast and they are a superb couple of snuffs. The usual very useful plastic screw top cannisters that last forever and keep snuff in perfect condition.
Sherry
Terrific, a modern classic from WoS. Medium across all aspects of the body, there is a berry rich rush of flavour, what I can only describe as a ‘tang’. Not tart, not in any way cloying, just a gorgeous, balanced oloroso sweetness. But it is emphatically not a dessert snuff, like some types built on this sort of chasis are. It is something you could take all day. It’s hard to think of a time when it wouldn’t be welcome on your palate: enough zest to wake you up, some comfort through the working day and then with a cold beer or glass of chablis at the end of the day. 100% excellent.
Irish D High Toast
Really odd. If I have tried this - with my lousy memory I might have even reviewed it - it made no impression on me to speak of. It’s the least like a toast of a toast I have ever tried. Really good snuff but closer in flavour and body to something like Tom Buck. I think of toasts as fine, dry, light, penetrating snuffs, probably based on taking a lot of Smith’s Irish High Toast when I was younger. This is too damp, and not very toasty. But a very good snuff indeed; I just wonder about dear old WoS’s categories and labels sometimes. But it is an excellent snuff whatever it is. It’s hard to get too grumpy with the grand old man of snuff, just for giving one of their wonderful snuffs an odd name. I think it’s even down as an SP on one bit of their site.