It's officially holiday season! Christmas blends and Christmas pipes are rolling in, and the soundtrack from A Charlie Brown Christmas is now on perpetual repeat in my noggin. Going up on the site today, in fact, we have new 2012 Christmas pipes fitting neatly alongside Peterson's just-released Holiday Season Tobacco 2012 - this year a mix of Virginias of differing shades and cuts along with no less than three kinds of black cavendish. I confess that I'll be picking up a tin of this today myself.

If you might find an English-style tobacco blend more enticing, with this update we're also releasing the much anticipated Hyde Park, again from Peterson. This one's again a blend of Virginias, but also Burleys and Indian tobacco flavored with rum and maple sugars, and a just a hint of latakia. Given that Movemeber (the official Mustache Awareness Month) is merely days away as well, this here would be a good pick for a 'Stache-Note evaluation.

Continuing today's Peterson theme, we have a new Peterson Old Boy-style pipe lighter in a formal dress-black body and chrome fixtures. Quite stunning, and suitable for any black tie holiday parties to which you may find yourself in attendance this year, or even just for relaxing in your easiest chair.

Last, but certainly not least, we're nearing the end of our hugely successful Dunhill sale, so if you've been procrastinating, you've exactly sixty hours as of this publication to take advantage of discounted Dunhill pipes, twenty percent off Dunhill bulk blends, and twenty percent off Dunhill tinned tobacco and cigars when you buy five of the same product.

 John Sutherland: Marketing Mngr and Sr. Photographer