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- Components: Virginia
- Family: Virginia
- Cut: Ribbon
About This Pipe Tobacco
Founded in Kendal, Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. has fashioned quality pipe tobacco since 1887, utilizing processes and techniques that date to 1792. The Cumbria-based company prioritizes natural tobacco flavor, and in many of their mixtures, Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. maintains the standards enforced by the United Kingdom's strict purity laws of the 19th and 20th centuries — such laws dictating how much and what type of flavorings could be added to pipe tobacco and ensuring that sub-quality leaf wasn't hidden under the veil of exorbitant toppings.
Kendal Dark is a strong, pure Virginia blend, showcasing dark-fired Malawi leaf and air-cured Indian leaf for a rich and deep flavor profile that highlights the varietals' natural essences. While Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. has traditionally only offered shag-cut versions of their blends to the U.S. market, this Vintage Cut edition presents Kendal Dark in a classic ribbon format.
Customer Reviews
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There's a spiciness too, despite no perique, which could be a result of having smoked only Deluxe Navy Rolls out of this 1940s US Falcon for the last two weeks.
A hint of cigar weaves in and out.
It'd be a nice evening smoke once one is used to the strength, or perhaps smoked through a filtered pipe or churchwarden; I can imagine it'd be a nice reading tobacco.
Imagine Sam and Frodo on the edge of the woods peering out at strange elven travelers crossing the meadow, feeling a dark sense of trepidation.
Halfway through the bowl the virginias give way to the nutty burley after a short interlude of dark earthiness, that could be unsettling for some.
The nuttiness is accompanied by rich cream and even a hint of popcorn.
Throughout the bowl in the constant background feeling that if pushed too hard, things could take a turn for the worse.
In the final third the virginias return to the front accompanied by the fullness that all pipe smokers will be familiar with when approaching this portion of their smoke.
At this point a fine dance ensues between virginias and the burley, which is altogether pleasant, yet in the background remains a constant threat. A darkness that may be a little too close for comfort.
Even at this stage, the briar of the Falcon is warm at best, but it takes little to send it over the edge.
The smoke ends rather abruptly with fire and darkness akin to one of Frodo's visions of The Great Eye.
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