English Estates: Dunhill Root Briar (31091) (1981) Tobacco Pipe

Dunhill's "09" Canadian is a sleek, streamlined shape that scales beautifully across the marque's various Group sizes. This particular Group 3-sized rendition features a slender, upright bowl that stands proudly at the fore of a protracted oval shank and an abbreviated tapered mouthpiece. It's a lightweight design that conforms effortlessly to the hand, and it should clench comfortably between the teeth. It's presented in the warm Root Briar finish, which highlights handsome grain across the briar's surface.

The highest honor for a Dunhill pipe is to receive the prestigious Root Briar appellation. Root Briars have been coveted by pipe smokers ever since they first debuted in 1931, due to the fact that each pipe must boast briar completely free of even the most minor of blemishes. Dunhill has the strictest of standards and expectations for quality with all of their pipes, and so any block of briar that comes to bear the Root Briar stamp must indeed be superlative.