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Per G. Jensen Bold & Strong Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 005-443-0352

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Details

Strength:
4/5
Room Note:
4/5
Taste:
4/5
  • Components: Virginia, Burley
  • Family: Virginia
  • Cut: Broken Flake

About This Pipe Tobacco

Sutliff's Per G. Jensen Blenders Collection offers pipe tobacco mixtures with no top flavors and minimal casing. The entire Blenders Collection series is designed to be smoked as presented or blended into a personalized mixture. Presented here is the Per G. Jensen Bold & Strong blend, consisting of Virginias, Rustica, and Burley in a Ready-Rubbed cut.

Customer Reviews

Overall Rating:
4.5
4 reviews
Why Rustica matters
April 06, 2026
Product: Sutliff Per G. Jensen Bold & Strong Bulk
This review likely will be hidden because this blend is out of production and doesn’t show up on SmokingPipes except for an external Google search.

But damn, this is good stuff.

Per Jensen basically brought Rustica back with his Mac Baren HH Rustica flake and Ready-Rubbed, his use of
regular and stoved Rustica in the Sutliff Birds of a Feather and Pipe Force limited runs, and this blend. (I’d be surprised if he didn’t also have a hand in my favorite of all—Sutliff’s Limited Edition Barrel Aged No. 5.)

I’m smoking a bowl of the PGJ bulk blending Rustica as I write this and realize how much of a loss it would be if we no longer had access to blends with this uniquely bold, strong leaf.

But I have hope that Per’s collaboration with Laudisi will yield new and exciting blends using Rustica. And I’m excited to imagine what someone like Jeremy Reeves would do if he started to experiment with Rustica.

One other note: two of my favorite small-run blenders, Ken Byron Ventures and Mad Hatter, released a handful of (mostly discontinued) blends featuring Rustica. KBV had Myrkwood, Nightmare, and Thunderlord; MadHatter did Destroyer. I assume all four of these blends used Per’s HH or blending Rustica as their source, but the bottom line is that there are some amazing things that can be done with this leaf.

Fingers crossed for more creativity in the future!
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Hits Like It Means It
December 27, 2024
Product: Sutliff Per G. Jensen Bold & Strong Bulk
I tried this after sampling and thoroughly enjoying the similar HH Rustica blend from Mac Baren. Like Rustica, it has a dark, spicy flavor and will knock you on your ass. I found it lacking the sweeter hickory notes that HH Rustica offered, though. This is a good tobacco for blending in small amounts, as others have said, but it doesn't hit the same spot in a tasting pipe as the competition....Read More
Great Tobacco
July 14, 2024
Product: Sutliff Per G. Jensen Bold & Strong Bulk
Once again a great blend or blender from Per. All these tobaccos are wonderful on their own and I have no doubt will blend well together. Personally I like all 3 non aromatic blenders all stand alone pure tobacco experience worthy of putting away plenty to age.
Great Blending Tobacco
December 17, 2024
Product: Sutliff Per G. Jensen Bold & Strong Bulk
Rustica has a mild flavor and mixes well with other tobaccos. The flavor is the only thing mild about this stuff…it hits like a sledgehammer. I mix it with HH Bold Kentucky about 50/50 or 25/75 favoring the Bold Kentucky and it just sings. What else is there to say…it is relatively dry so unless you like Semois level dryness, it’s perfect in every way. It’s good smoked straight as well, with a restrained sweetness, but I swear it’s even stronger than HH Rustica....Read More