Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut Review

I have been wanting to write a review about Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut for sometime now. I have been using it just over a year, right after it came out in fact, since Copenhagen gave away so many coupons for it and the fact that the price for it remains cheap. I think this must be the longest Copenhagen have promoted a product and kept the price low.

Just the other day I bought a can of Longhorn Wintergreen at Stripes (a gas station mini-mart) and the cashier gave me a coupon for Copenhagen Wintergreen. I also got quite a few free cans through coupons not to mention a Bass Pro Shops Camo Cap, a coffee mug, and I think some kind of multi-tool.

In any case, I think I have been using Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut because it is decent, but more importantly because it has been cheap for such a long time (in the price range of Grizzly, Longhorn, etc., but cheaper than Skoal and Kodiak).

When I read that Copenhagen was coming out with a Long Cut Wintergreen I thought it was great news and visited my local shops often to keep an eye out for it. I remember having my first dip with it and thinking that I liked the flavor and that the tobacco was moist. What I did not like about it was that it was hard to pack and that some of the tobacco seems kind of hard and tends to "ball up" in the can.

I don't know how else to explain it but the tobacco does not seem very consistent in the can. Sometimes it seems to be cut well and evenly and other times there are a lot of small loose bits of tobacco and tight balls of tobacco in the can.  The same can be said for the moisture of Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut.

Often I feel the tobacco is too moist which causes your fingers to stain when packing in a dip. It can be almost juicy, which some other brands of snuff could use a little more of (Redman Wintergreen and Longhorn are pretty dry and almost require you to put a few drops of water in the can to get it to the right degree of moisture).

Pros

1. It's cheap. Copenhagen is premium tobacco, but I am not sure that Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut is. I know that they wanted a piece of Skoal Wintergreen's business as well as Grizzly's. I am sure that this is why Copenhagen have kept their price low on the new Long Cut flavors (Wintergreen, Straight, and Natural), pretty much right at the level of Grizzly's and other non-premium brands.
2. The flavor is OK. It is decent, but does it win best Wintergreen? I don't think so.
3. The can design and amount of promotional products that Copenhagen gave away almost makes you want to like this Long Cut. Anyone play the hunting game for a Bass Pro Shops Gift Certificate? How many free cans did I get for Long Cut Wintergreen? At least ten, if not more.

Cons

1. As much as I want to like it, I really would rather chew Skoal Wintergreen or Grizzly. Kodiak burns too much and has too many balls (tight wads of tobacco) for me. Grizzly Wintergreen Long Cut is better I think for just a little more money and it packs better and tastes better.
2. Hard on the mouth and gums. I feel Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut is rougher on the mouth and gums than other chew and maybe this is to the quality of the cut of the tobacco as I mentioned earlier in this article.
3. Hard to pack. Seems harder than other Wintergreens to pack. Difficult to handle I think compared to Grizzly or Skoal.
4. The moistness is inconsistent.
   

I have been a big fan of regular old Copenhagen Snuff for years. Right out of the fridge Copenhagen is hard to beat. I was excited about Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut the day it has come out and have used it along with other brands for over a year. That being said, I do not feel that this is on par with Copenhagen Snuff or the brand of Copenhagen. Both the Wintergreen and Straight Long Cuts seem to be made of a lesser quality.

For all of the reasons above I feel that I would rather buy Skoal, Grizzly, or another brand of wintergreen over Copenhagen's Wintergreen. However, it is still a decent dip at $1-2 cheaper than the premium brands. I don't want to ever pay $5 or over for a can of chew and that is what Skoal has been at for quite a while with Copenhagen's Long Cuts being anywhere from $2.63-$3.89 per can (this has been the price over the last year in the Western States, it may differ where you live).

It has been hard not to buy it considering it is the cheapest can at Walmart for example. It is Copenhagen and it is cheap so I naturally buy it. If the price goes up I will not be buying it, I will buy Grizzly with a can here and there of Redman or Longhorn or another budget brand. I just wish Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut was just a little better and I think this review would have been more favorable.

I think that when Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut came out we all expected it to be a new premium flavor that was at it's "Try it Now!" price for just a limited time. Now, I think we have realized that this is a budget chew product that is not a premium and will not be priced higher in the future because it is priced right where it belongs, in the budget tobacco price range along with Happy Days, Longhorn, Redman, Husky, Kayak, and all the others.

Hey fellas, let me know what you think in the comments.  Do you love it?  What do you chew and where do you buy it? How do you like Copenhagen Long Cut?  Appreciate the feedback.