St. James Mini Plug 8oz Pipe Tobacco

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 line of Mini Plug tobacco blends are unique, being the small, chunk-like bits of tobacco sliced away from Gawith's lines of iconic plug and flake mixtures. Though some of these small bits are included with larger plugs, a good deal is left over, and these small chunks of plug tobacco make for a perfect self-contained smoking experience. Presented here is the St. James Mini Plug, offering the same blend of Virginias and Perique tobacco as the full-sized plug and flake versions but in a more convenient size.