Adam O'Neill

When I was asked to take the Mystery Review for October, I racked my brain trying to think of a tobacco obscure enough to stump our reviewers, but not so unknown as to be impossible. Then Greg Pease released his new American blend, The Virginia Cream, and I thought it might be fun to explore some of the more fully aromatic Vanilla blends.

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When an opportunity came up to sit down with Mark Ryan during a visit to our offices we jumped at the chance. After all, he's a key figure in pipe tobacco in the US, and possibly the world. Still, I wasn't sure what to expect. Every first hand account had the man as being intelligent and genial, yet he's such a controversial figure ... Read More

Low Country Pipe and Cigar, our brick and mortar store here in Myrtle Beach, played host last Friday to Mark Ryan, who was in town to promote his new Perique cigar, the 1881 Perique.

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I don't know about you, but I consider my pipe to be an extension of myself. Like any fashion the shape and finish of a pipe become a statement about who I am, or at least who I consider myself to be, and most definitely whom I wish to be seen as.

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This past Sunday marked our annual company picnic. From what I'm led to believe it's usually a fairly large affair, but with this year being our fifteenth year of operation, it was an especially big occasion, with every employee, wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, child, and dog turning up. ... Read More

We pipe smokers can be a ritualistic lot at the best of times, observing methods of packing and lighting passed down from smoker to smoker in order to elicit the absolute coolest, driest, most pleasurable smoke possible. Luckily most of us draw short of donning robes or ceremonial garb...anymore anyway. ... Read More

If you have a spare moment, go and Google "Gungfu ceremony". The leaves being prepared are different, but there's some commonality there too. Much like our everyday ritual of preparing and smoking a pipe, the Gongfu ceremony serves both to aid in proper preparation and to ease the drinker into a proper mindset to enjoy the tea.

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We've discussed, at some length, music and pipe smoking before. Predictably, selections ranged anywhere from Bing Crosby to The Clash, and from Ella Fitzgerald to Fleet Foxes. Musical tastes, you see, are as varied and diverse as tobacco blends and the people that smoke them.

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A few days ago, we introduced Mimmo Provenzano, our latest carver from the heart of the Mediterranean — Lecce, Italy. ... Read More

Some of you may have already noticed that we've changed the way we do our blog notifications. Adam explains the what and why

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