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Royal Twist 3.5oz Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-039-0117

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Details

Strength:
3/5
Room Note:
3/5
Taste:
4/5
  • Components: Virginia, Perique, Dark Fired Kentucky
  • Family: Virginia
  • Cut: Coins

About This Pipe Tobacco

Among the most elusive of Mac Baren's spun-cut mixtures is Royal Twist, a distinctive Virginia/Perique blend enhanced by Dark-Fired Kentucky. Despite strong popularity and demand, it was delisted in the 1960s due to shared name registrations and unfortunately was taken off the market. While it later returned as Mac Baren's flagship Roll Cake, one of the blending house's most popular tobaccos of all time, the recipe had changed and no longer included Perique.

Crafted using its original 1960s recipe and packaged in 100g tins with vintage artwork, Mac Baren's Royal Twist returns in a limited-edition run, available only at Smokingpipes. Select Virginias, Dark-Fired Kentucky, and Perique form the core of this complex mixture, elevated by a naturally sweet, whole-leaf Virginia wrapper for a nuanced, all-day smoking experience with just the right amount of peppery, smoky spice. Meticulously handspun into ropes, aged for weeks, and sliced into delicate coins, Royal Twist is a testament to Mac Baren's proud spun-cut legacy.

Don't miss your chance to experience this special-edition revival of Mac Baren's Royal Twist, the predecessor to the modern Roll Cake, blended as it was in the '60s.

Customer Reviews

Overall Rating:
5.0
25 reviews
Excellent Smoke
October 07, 2026
Product: Mac Baren Royal Twist 3.5oz
One of MacBaren’s finest. Too bad it’s discontinued. Should have bought more tins.
Burns clean
February 04, 2024
Product: Mac Baren Royal Twist 3.5oz
It provides a lot of tart and tangy citrus, grass, bread, sugar, vegetation, light floralness, spice, and a touches of honey and acidity. Excellent. Love at first light!
Best Roll of Macbaren
March 10, 2024
Product: Mac Baren Royal Twist 3.5oz
2023 with a touch of perique is the best!
awesome!
January 12, 2023
Product: Mac Baren Royal Twist 3.5oz
Freshly opened tin dated Mar 2021, has notes of mild pungent barbeque, spices, and sugar. Tobacco is an orangish brown and dark brown coins with tan specks. moisture content is a on the dry side, coins rub out with a little effort. Burns slow with a few relights. The strength is medium and nic is mild to medium. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium to full and consistent, with notes of wood, bread, leather, orange peel, dry earth, floral, slightly bitter, grass/vegetation/hay, sugar, moderately spicy, a tangy dark spice fruit background note, and a peppery retro. Virginia is leading with Kentucky and Perique supporting. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is outstanding....Read More
Just wonderful!
June 29, 2022
Product: Mac Baren Royal Twist 3.5oz
Just wonderful! Mac Baren has outdone himself. I haven't enjoyed smoking this much in a long time. The recipe is magnificent, the execution is magnificent, and I would like this tobacco to be put into production.