Samuel Gawith: Navy Flake 8oz Pipe Tobacco

Name: Navy Flake 8oz
Brand: Samuel Gawith
SKU: 003-059-0088
Price: 51.0 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.83 (3 reviews)

Product Number: 003-059-0088

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.

Samuel Gawith's Navy Flake is a traditional navy mixture, blending Virginias with a small amount of Latakia — flavored with a dash of rum.

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Components: Virginia, Latakia
Family: English
Cut: Flake

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Brilliant. Best English Navy Flake Available.

July 04, 2023

By: Pretentious Pedantry

Product: Samuel Gawith Navy Flake 8oz

Gawith is the undisputed King of English navy flakes. The smoke is so thick, so full bodied, you can chew it. The rum topping is goldilocks, just right, dances in the background on the very tip of the tongue and shines in the retrohale, nowhere appearing as a goopy, syrupy, sugary, taffy bomb. It smells and tastes like real rum, not some chemical concoction. The latakia here is just barely enough to make itself known as a player in the harmony, not center stage, not in your face. It's just enough to frame and support the Virginia leaf. As in all Gawith products, the Virginias used here are of the highest quality available, sweet and grassy and spicy, bready and bright and citrusy, but then also dark and mature and musty with notes of stewed figs and stone fruits. SmoPipes rates the strength at a level 4, and a Gawith 4 is much stronger than a Drucquer or Sutliff or C&D level 4. It's very strong. But it's not club-you-over-the-head and leave you knocked out strong. It's perfect. It's so incredibly good I can't even wrap my head around it yet. It's absolutely the best English navy flake I've ever had, and I've had all of them. It's the B.E.S.T. Without question. I wish there were more available. Around Christmastime I was lucky enough to snag this one and a Firedance Flake. It's such a rare and special treat, I can't believe I scored eight ounces. I would buy five pounds if it were available. Six stars....Read More