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Maltzinga Blendfeel – Review

INTRODUCTION

After talking to you a few months ago about the Talius aroma, today I will deal with the review of Maltzinga, the second aroma by Blendfeel Signature line that bears the signature of Alen Tufekcic, a very long experienced vaper, especially in terms of tobacco extracts and MTL vape. I met Alen a few years ago at an edition of Vapitaly and I want to add my personal consideration: he is an exquisitely modest person without that arrogance that have many italian vape influencers.

But let’s get back to us and immediately try to understand what the Maltzinga aroma is, which is said to have been born as a homemade aroma made by Alen and later, after a providential taste by Renzo Cattaneo (Blendfeel), landed in the Blendfeel Lab to become a product open to the public. I was also told that it took about two years of work and almost a hundred tests to reach the final result that is proposed to us today. Maltzinga is sold in the 20 ml aroma shot format in a 60 ml bottle, to be added with a neutral base to reach a recommended final composition of VPG 50/50.

MALTZINGA – DESCRIPTION

I start as usual with the official description of the manufacturer:

A complex, harmonious, fragrant, unique melange. Maltzinga contains the essence of the aroma of a sweet, persistent, fruity pipe smoke. That memorable aroma that filled the rooms where the pipe rose to the rank of a natural fragrance diffuser. Describing all the aromatic characteristics of Maltzinga will always be an understatement but its tasting will amaze and leave you speechless. No words and vape!

SMELL TEST

It is my habit to smell the aroma to be reviewed for several consecutive days with the aim of perceiving every slightest aromatic mutation of the product. In the case of Maltzinga it was wiser as a first nasal test, performed immediately after mixing the aroma with the base, the aroma had an evident note of licorice, quite dominant compared to all the other components of the mix, notes that it has faded with the passing of the days and that, after about ten days from the first test, it has almost disappeared, amalgamating within a very complex bouquet, characterized by iridescent and oscillating fragrances between liqueur scents and soft hints of tobacco fresh, moist and vegetable.

VAPE TEST

Devices: Penodat V2 MTL RTA single coil 1.05 ohm (Kanthal A1 28 AWG) + Innokin Ares 2 single coil 0.90 ohm (Kanthal A1 27 AWG) with Cotton Bacon Prime

I tried and tested Maltzinga on many atomizers, alternating models universally recognized for their performance with dark tobaccos, with others more at ease with the so-called flavored tobaccos; I finally decided to perform the official vape test on two atomizers (an high end atomizer and a low cost one) in my opinion quite suitable to enhance all the subtlest nuances of the Maltzinga bouquet. In this case I used the Turkish Penodat V2 RTA atomizer with low and wide bell and the cheap but also good Ares 2 by Innokin.

“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is“ thought Alen Tufekcic before starting to create his own blend of tobaccos; it was the dawn of Maltzinga…

The melange of Maltzinga tobaccos offers a warm, sweet and enveloping embrace in inspiration, in which a soft Virginia plays at making the Black Cavendish with twirls of rare intensity and refinement, filled with subtle vanilla and liqueur veils. But will it really be just a Cavendish treated Virginia tobacco? I wonder after each draw, or is it “simply” an unusual new Black Cavendish?

What if they are both? Doubts overlap, I increase the frequency of puffs eager to know, to understand; curiosity at times seems to distract me from the taste perceptions, but then a new bewitching aromatic note brings me back to the pure pleasure of the senses, to the pleasure of savoring something unique and never revealed. And then yet another nuance, in an almost endless vortex of iridescent aromatic brushstrokes.

The sensory perceptions that arise from tasting Maltzinga are beyond any other mix of tobacco extracts you have ever tried. Here you enter the exclusive club of aromatic pipe tobaccos, catapulted back in time, in an old, warm and humid northern European tavern of the late 19th century. The environment is filled with the smoke of the sailors returning from their daily fishing trip, the smells of the kitchen intertwine with the scents and aromas of tobacco slowly burned in the pipe stove.

It is the great tradition of Dutch pipe smoking that is affirmed with Maltzinga, and is brought back to us in liquid form thanks to Blendfeel. The culture of the Nordic pipe, unique in the world and perhaps also the most appreciated by non-smokers because it is able to reconcile the strong smell of tobacco with the pleasure of the scents that are dispersed into the surrounding environment.

The fruity, slightly acidic and delicately pungent nuances of Perique are added to the sweet head movements during the vape; the atty starts to heat up and with it toasted, almost scorched, roasting hints, the vape becomes unusually “dark”, although at the same time soft and full-bodied. The creator of the blend revealed to me to be Semois tobacco, a variety of Burley which after the traditional air cure, is humidified and then “smoked” with oak wood.

The taste on the palate is captivating beyond all limits, the scent in the air simply intoxicating, the puff deeply mushy. I slide gently towards the end of the vape and I perceive with new amazement a further breath of novelty. The taste buds perceive the clear fragrance of a freshly baked product, the reassuring scent of the warm crumb of bread, a mix of malty notes caressed by light but easily recognizable insertions of yeast. I relax and indulge in tasting so much unlikely complexity. Apotheosis and praise of an aromatic madness.

MALTZINGA FINAL VERDICT

Maltzinga, on paper a classic sweet and fragrant flavored tobacco extract, is actually the first NON-flavored flavored e-cigarette tobacco e-liquid. Maltzinga’s puff is dazzling, its puff like a revealing muse of the unknown, and with every puff you realize that like it no one ever …

“This is the smell I love. This and fresh-cut clover… wood-smoke and the burning leaves of autumn. That must be the odor of nostalgia, the smell of the smoke from the piles of raked leaves burning in the streets in the fall… Which would you rather smell? Sweet grass the Indians used in their baskets? Smoked leather? The odor of the ground in the spring after rain? …. Or coffee in the morning? Or a cider mill in the grinding, or bread fresh from the oven?”

What if it’s the smell and taste of Maltzinga? Hemingway would have loved him too…

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