Tobacco Talk

With our Mac Baren HH promo in full swing, I thought it was about time to revisit some of my favorite blends in this natural tobacco line. Being the Perique fiend that I am, I immediately reached for our communal tin of Acadian Perique. It's certainly not a new blend to me; in fact, it regularly makes its way into my rotation. ... Read More

According to Stephen A. Ross, in his article "Tobacco Renaissance," in 1887 Harald Halberg, son of merchant captain Hans Nissen Halberg, who ran cargo including snuff, chewing, and pipe tobacco, decided that instead of going into the family business he would buy S. Bønnelycke, a tobacco factory located in their home town of Svendborg. ... Read More

Busy, busy, busy — that's been things around here of late, even more so than usual. Nonetheless, we still managed to slip in some time for me to wander around the warehouse in search for something special, and for several others to be press-ganged into smoking it. And, as usual, time for Andy to make several poor attempts at getting me to name the picked blend ... Read More

It has been a cold winter here at the beach this year. Sure, some other places have been way colder (sorry New Englanders), but I have had just about enough of those inevitable winter time blues. The other day, I decided that I needed something that was going to put me back in a summer-like mindset and maybe, just maybe, make me feel a bit warmer. ... Read More

As noted in my previous post, I resolved at the beginning of 2014 to smoke my way through the G.L. Pease line of tobaccos. My original plan to complete this project within the year went up in smoke — literally — but not frequently enough it seems, as I now find myself in a new year with several blends yet to smoke ... Read More

A few weeks back, I mentioned that my New Year's resolution was to try more tobaccos and, more specifically, a wider variety of them. My goal for the first few weeks was to explore Perique. Now I'm fairly familiar with Perique's effect on Virginia and Burley based blends, but I was curious to really explore its role in Latakia blends — namely how its spicy notes would complement the often overwhelming, smoky tones of the exotic leaf. ... Read More

And so it's that time again: time to introduce an unidentified blend to several of my coworkers and see what happens when their combined with it. A gentle fizzing? A sudden change in complexion? An explosion of noxious gases? While we can all make our predictions, there's no real telling until they've stuck it in their pipes and smoked it — which they have. ... Read More

Since our "buy a Savinelli pipe, get a free Savinelli tin" deal has been underway, we thought this would be a good chance to highlight Savinelli's newest tobacco blends. With Doblone d'Oro and Essenza Cipriota smoked, and enjoyed to good measure, I thought I'd take a crack at describing my time with Savinelli's Brunello Flake. ... Read More

After I cracked open a tin of Doblone d'Oro the other day, a few of our Latakia lovers around here noted that they had a particularly enjoyable experience with another of Savinelli's newer offerings: Essenza Cipriota. Here's some of their thoughts. ... Read More

When the Savinelli blends first came out a few months ago, we, of course, all lined up to try them (including those who had been testing out the various prototypes long beforehand). Somehow though I never got the opportunity to try Doblone D'Oro. ... Read More