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Updated for Spring 2025. The most popular Virginia blends we offer, along with a few suggestions here and there, should you be looking to try something new or find blends similar to your favorites. ... Read More

Airports are universes unto themselves, dictated by their own laws of physics and time. Ten minutes through security actually takes five hours, and a five-hour layover really only lasts two beers — yes, beers transmogrify from beverages to measurements of time (the result of a complicated process that Einstein only touches on in his fifth Annus Mirabilis paper). ... Read More

Virginia and Perique mixtures, or VA/Pers as they are sometimes referred to, are pipe tobacco blends consisting of one or more varieties of Virginias that have been lightly spiced with a small portion of Perique. Traditionally, the percentage of Perique in a blend is only three to five percent ... Read More

Our Spring Showdown is coming to a close, with the championship round polls running on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to see which of these two fan favourites will reign supreme.

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Over the weekend we ran polls across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pitching blend against blend to see which would be the crowd favourite. ... Read More

Though the view out the window may say differently, our trusty calendar marks today as the first day of Spring, and in these parts that can only mean one thing — our annual Spring Showdown. ... Read More

Adam and Shane are back with the latest edition to our "Will it...?" series, and this time they're asking the big question: will Escudo ghost a pipe or will Zelda Rubinstein declare this pipe to be clean?

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In this Tasting Notes video, Shane circles back around to an old favorite, Escudo Navy De Luxe, a Virginia-Perique blend that's become the gold standard of the VaPer category.

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With the announcement of our second Spring Showdown, we also mentioned we'd be doing it a little differently this year. Instead of an all in brawl to see which blend in a wide open field of contenders was the best springtime smoke, we narrowed the scope a little ... Read More

Well tobacco fans, it's that time of year again. Not only is spring upon us, if the quarter inch thick layer of pollen covering my car every morning is to be believed anyway, but the organisation-that-shall-remain-nameless-for-copyright-reasons has finished it's first round of play. ... Read More