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Samuel Gawith: Grousemoor 50g Pipe Tobacco
Product Number: 003-059-0005
Samuel Gawith was the son-in-law of Thomas Harrison, a snuff manufacturer who moved his trade and equipment to Kendal, Cumbria, England from Scotland in 1792. Gawith inherited this equipment from Harrison, and the company has been crafting premium tobacco since, with one of Samuel's two sons continuing the brand while the other joined with Henry Hoggarth to establish Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Though offering separate blends, both brands remain forever linked and still share the same manufacturing facility in England's Lake District, utilizing processes and techniques that date to the brands' 1792 roots. In many of their mixtures, Samuel Gawith 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.
Named for the field sport of grouse hunting popular in the United Kingdom, Grousemoor from Samuel Gawith is an iconic Lakeland blend topped with a number of seasonal scents that so often characterize blends from England's Lake District. A pure Virginia mixture, Grousemoor features flue-cured leaf that's first steamed before being cut. It's then stoved and topped with a mélange of essences.
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- Components: Virginia
- Family: Aromatic
- Cut: Ribbon
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Upon cracking the tin, my eyes were met with a mixture of beautifully golden, light brown and tawny ribbons. That same perfumed scent again. After packing my meerschaum (did you think I’d use a briar with this?) and sparking the char light, I quickly sensed that this would be one of those cases of my repulsion at the tin note not matching up with what followed ignition. Upon first smelling the inside of that tin, I sensed I’d soon be giving this a 3.5 or 4 stars. Well, that gladly didn’t quite come to pass.
The faint flowery vanilla Lakeland toppings (and the more generous additions of orange blossom toppings) many of the more conservative pipesters like to deride—well, they are what defines and dominates this blend. You probably will either like them or strongly dislike them. Grousemoor isn’t for everyone, but Samuel Gawith achieves what it sets out to accomplish with this blend. Just as I believe SG delivers the ideal rope/twist tobacco with Brown Number Four, the ideal medium-bodied Virginia Flake with Full Virginia Flake, Grousemoor wins its division: a technically Lakeland aromatic.
Be sure to puff slowly, for with its sugary toppings, and the sugar organic/native to the Virginias, Grousemoor can bite your tongue a bit in warning. But nothing close to what many aromatics will do.
Bottom line, you have a fine, top-notch aromatic here.
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