In this episode of All Pipes Considered, I'm back again this year with Kaz Walters to discuss Savinell's new series for 2025. With six unique lines joining the Italian marque's illustrious portfolio — Bosco, Sasso, Colombina, Dune, Whisky, and the Collection 2025 — there are plenty of stunning designs and intriguing shapes to discover from these new additions. These new Savinelli pipes are now available on-site.

[Andy Wike]: Hey everybody, we're here today to discuss some new Savinelli series. We just received a whole bunch of really exceptional new series from Savinelli for 2025. And as tradition begets, I am also joined by my good friend Kaz Walters, the Assistant Director of Laudisi Distribution Group, the exclusive U.S. distributor of Savinelli pipes here in the United States. I really look forward to these chats with you every year.

[Kaz Walters]: Likewise.

[AW]: This year, once again, we're seeing Savinelli play with the theme of proprietary acrylic stems but also switching up the finishes a little bit. Among this year's collections, we also have the final entry in the Commedia dell'arte series which is really exciting, a really nice new natural, and probably some of the coolest acrylic stems I've seen from the workshop.

[KW]: Oh yeah. Savinelli is known for their proprietary acrylic patterns and that they're the only pipe company that's going to have this type of material. This year has a solid lineup that's very distinct.

[AW]: Yeah. I definitely think there's something for everybody.

Bosco

[AW]: First up we have the Bosco. Bosco translates to woods from Italian, like the forest kind of woods. For the actual presentation for these pipes, appropriately, we're seeing really dark palettes and this beautiful acrylic stem that has this lovely brindled pattern. It really looks like brindled vulcanite. It's a moss green and black color with beautiful striations. This pipe is presented in two different finishes. We have a black rustication as well as a dark smoky, smooth finish.

[KW]: It's also a nice counterpart. A few years ago, one of their new releases was the Foresta, which had a much brighter, traditional, or quintessential green component to the stem. They're night and day, but I think they're both riffs on the same concept.

It's really cool that Savinelli thinks about previous iterations and how they can evolve.

[AW]: Yeah, and we pipe smokers really enjoy going for hikes and being in nature. I think there's something about smoking a pipe that translates really well to that.

So it's really cool to see another take on a nature-inspired line from Savinelli. Bosco is available in a lot of different, standard, classic Savinelli shapes and these two finishes. I think they're exceptional and I really do like the moss-green brindled vulcanite-style acrylic stem here.

Sasso

[AW]: Moving on, we have what I think is probably the most unconventional stem pattern and the most striking of the bunch, and that's the Sasso. This translates to stone from Italian, and you can sort of see that inspiration in the acrylic that they've used for the stem as well. It's a marbled granite kind of a pattern and it's accented by this really nice sky-blue ring at the end of the stem. I think the finish choices for this are really complimentary.

[KW]: Oh yes, for sure.

[AW]: It's a really cool-toned stem with really warm finishes. It's a light smooth, almost natural for the smooth finish and then the rusticated has a two-toned red and tan color palette.

[KW] Yes. And that's a quintessential or standard color palette for rustication within Savinelli's repertoire. There are even striations within certain aspects of the stem that definitely make me think particularly of granite. The bluish tones are subtle, but distinctly light blue, that look like a very clear granite appearance to me.

I love the juxtaposition between the rusticated finish and the stem, but also that natural stain. I've already actually picked one of those up.

[AW]: We have a favorite, folks.

[KW]: I struggled between which of the first I was going to get between the Bosco or the Sasso, but Sasso won out.

[AW]: Yeah. I think it's exceptional. Just like the Bosco, this is going to be available in a variety of Savinelli shapes in these two finishes. Not only will you be able to choose your favorite shape and finish, but then you can also look at the actual stems themselves and find one that speaks to you.

Dune

[KW]: Next up is Dune. Every year Savinelli releases a natural-finished pipe. These are cool in multiple respects. They are going to gather a patina individual to the wood itself, but also the smoker and the tobacco used, depending on how oily it is. So no two, even if they have the same rustication style and the same natural wood, are going to be alike once they're used; they kind of develop with the individual, which I think provides a special relationship with the pipe.

This year's iteration, as Savinelli does with a lot of these new releases, was inspired by the natural world. In fact, I don't know if I can think of a single example off the top of my head where their natural addition wasn't. They went with the Dune, which means dune from Italian.

It's a very desert-themed, sand-dune-themed finish from the undulating rustication. This one has a building of a wave effect to it. That makes me think of wind blowing across a dune and then, depending on the angle you're looking at this stem, it has a really cool sand earth tone color with a golden shimmery effect.

[AW]: I like the natural line every year because I think it's interesting to see what Savinelli can do with texture. Historically for this natural series, sometimes we'll see a more carved-style rustication. I'm thinking of the sea-urchin-inspired one, for example.

All of them are very evocative, but I think what Savinelli has done this year is play with texture and flow. If you look up close to the pipe itself, you see these notched rivulets, almost a chiseled rustication, but the way that it's applied is undulating. It ebbs and flows along the natural curves of the pipe itself, which I think not only enhances the shape but it's really fun to hold. I don't know about you guys, but when I'm smoking a pipe, smooth finishes are great, but sometimes having a little bit of texture in your hand, something to fiddle with, is just really nice.

The tops are polished smooth. As Kaz mentioned, these will patinate very nicely, particularly given how much texture and organic un-uniform texture there is on the bowl itself. I think you're going to see some really unique patination.

The stem itself has a shimmery effect. It's semi-transparent in the same way that a lucite stem would be but there is a little bit more of a pattern. There's this nice amber sandy tone and there is a little bit of shimmer. It's almost like if you have near microscopic bits of mica within dispersing the light.

There's a nice refraction to it. I think that's really cool because you have this shimmery stem with this more rugged, very highly textured bowl.

[KW]: And as it patinates, it's going to be thrown even in higher relief.

Colombina

[AW]: All right, moving on, we have the final entry in Savinelli's Commedia dell'arte series, which is a tribute to that historic precedent in Italy which is celebrated.

[KW]: Every region harkening back to the city-state model of Italy, references an important player. And this year it's Venice. It is the Colombina, who is a maid often depicted as being a handmaid, or a servant to a mistress. She is the only character in the comedy that does not wear a mask. The depiction is so that she can immediately and without any sort of barrier present her emotions.

The color palette is really cool and even for this line of Novelties that they've been building on for the past three or four years is, to me, the, the brightest and most eye-catching. The bright blue and reds depict her costume, or her dress, and the white lines depict her head scarf and her apron. It's rendered here in one of the top five Savinelli shapes as far as popularity, the 673 KS, which is their triangular-shanked Bulldog.

[AW]: Yeah. I love that pipe. I think that the dome-triangular shank is really good if you like to rest your finger in the crook of the transition there, which I do. It's a universal shape that isn't too masculine or feminine; it sort of bridges the gap there.

The stems themselves are mesmerizing. We spoke about the Sasso and how each stem is going to be slightly different. I think you're going to see a lot more overt variation.

[KW]: Oh yeah, for sure. Even in our examples here, I mean, you have a balance of all the colors, but the patterns that you get from hand-produced acrylic being utilized, are distinct. I love this pattern. The only other time that Savinelli has used this sort of trippy., lava lamp 1970s sort of pattern that I can think of, off the top of my head, is the Paloma, which was another new addition years ago, and it was more earth tones, with browns and yellows, and the dividing line was black. It's amazing that it's the exact same pattern concept, but with a different palette, which makes it wholly distinct.

There are not a lot of designs on patterns that can be singular in appearance like this one. Unless you've had the Colombina and the Paloma side by side, you wouldn't automatically associate this with a previous new release.

[AW]: Yeah, I think that's definitely true. It's the most memorable or one of the most memorable stems that I've seen from Savinelli. I think it's really interesting. I love the shape as well. There are two finishes for the Colombina: a black rustication and a really nice light brown, almost natural, smooth finish. I really like that finish in particular because I think it does a nice job of bringing out the grain, but then you also have a little bit of that cross grain coming through too.

[KW]: They also patinate with time. They will get darker and richer. I have a friend who collects the natural releases from Savinelli every year. It's so cool to have them lined up because from the oldest to the newest, it is a gradient from almost a dark walnut tone, because they're very well-loved pipes, to the most current rendition which is this almost natural color, and it's just from handling and smoking that that natural wood pattern and coloration patinates in a totally different way than others.

[AW]: Awesome. I think this is a great presentation to end this tribute to the Commedia dell'arte. I don't know that Savinelli could have done a better job with this encore, or last hoorah, for that series.

[KW]: Oh yeah, it's a strong closing for it. I've loved seeing the progression of the elaboration on this theme and inspiration.

Whisky

[AW]: Next we have the aptly named Whisky series, which is, if you are familiar with the Miele and the others that Savinelli calls flavor pipes, it's a tribute to culinary inspirations.

[KW]: As you said, aptly named Whisky because of the very warm browns, and the entire line is finished smooth. Even with the stem material, you get a shimmery effect that, if you are let's say a scotch drinker and you throw just a few drops of water to open it up and get a broader flavor profile, you get a shimmery effect in the stem that makes me think of the scotch and water look, which to me is a brilliant visual aspect to bring to the theme itself.

It's very warm, which to me is reminiscent of just that feeling you get whenever you're having a Whisky. It's really well thought out and it's a really well executed way to present the theme of Whisky.

[AW]: Yeah. You were talking about the stem from this angle, and it looks nuts. It has a brindled vulcanite pattern to it, but when the light catches it, it almost looks like there's gold in it.

[KW]: Yes, like gold filings, but not throughout the stem. You've got the solid, conventional, brindled colors, like this brownish black and this warm red but part of those veins has that shimmery golden hazy aspect. It's not all throughout, so it gives the steam material several dimensions.

[AW]: Yeah, it's super cool. I could probably stare at it for hours because even just slightly tilting it, you start to see these little glints and glimmers in a way that you don't really see head-on. I think the water and scotch analogy is perfect.

Like all of Savinelli's culinary-inspired lines, there is a bowl coating on this. So it is treated with a little bit of Whisky. You know, some folks find that this helps with the break-in period.

[KW]: It makes it really interesting that you're getting that added dimension to the flavor and by the time you've got this thing broken in and everything, it's about dissipated so it makes an interesting journey as you're transitioning from a virgin bowl to something that is officially broken in.

Collection 2025

[AW]: To wrap things up, we have Savinelli's most anticipated release every year, their Collection pipe, which I think you can consider Savinelli's Pipe of the Year.

Every year they release a new shape that does not exist within the current standard shape chart. You won't find an actual shape number attached to this, but it does very much fit in with Savinelli's design language and their signature house style. You can see allusions to some of their most popular shapes throughout the line itself.

[KW]: Oh yeah. Some years it's a riff or a playful augmentation of an existing shape or combined elements we've seen that forward where you take this aspect from one shape and this from another and then you marry them together and it's always well executed so that they don't look disjointed or anything like that. Then some years it is a wholly new shape. But as you said, even though it's new, it is entirely in keeping with Savinelli's style.

[AW]: This year's Collection pipe, the Collection 2025, is a muscular medium-to-large bent Pot shape. It's a little bit taller of a bowl than I would historically or traditionally associate with a Pot but I think that plays into Savinelli's signature neoclassical style well. Their bowls are always a little bit larger than you would typically expect from, say, an English brand.

[KW]: It's robust and as far as height, if you're looking at just that element, it makes you think of a Billiard, but it's a much broader presentation and it's almost not quite straight walled. Billiards have this natural, subtle curvature and then of course you have a wider chamber. That ratio is something that to me is distinctly Pot.

The Collection 2025 is available in four finishes: two sandblasts, one with a smooth rim, which I always love the juxtaposition and contrast there, a smooth brown, which is a very warm, dark honey tone, and then a natural with just a slight contrast applied to give the grain more visibility.

[AW]: To accent all of that, Savinelli is using natural, polished briar. What I think is interesting about the Collection series, you know, we've talked a lot about the proprietary acrylic and you can see here how eye-catching some of those are, but you historically won't find that colorful or strongly patterned acrylic on the Collection series. That's because the Collection series really is about the shaping.

While Savinelli is flexing their muscles with color palettes and proprietary acrylic stems across the entirety of the new releases for 2025, the Collection is an opportunity for them to really focus on the shape and present something new without any sort of distractions. It's very natural. It's very organic. And I think that lends a premiumness to the line as well.

[KW]: Yes, and Savinelli not being too far from Milan, I mean, I don't think there's been a single video that I haven't made the statement that they're not far from one of the largest fashion centers in the world. I think that definitely impacts the mindset with these designs every year.

When you're looking at a piece of clothing, whether it's a suit or a jacket or a dress or something else, you need all the right elements of color, pattern, cut, and fit. All of those factors come into play with the pipes that they release. In fashion, some garments make a statement with an emphasized element. Pipes are the same, such as the Colombina: the statement is the color. I think that is true on the opposite end with the Collection: the shape is the statement. That is where the emphasis is.

Of course, as always, they come with the little metal plate embedded in the stem demarking the year. I always love seeing the collections of people who collect the Collections. Just seeing throughout the years how they change and how they're always flexing their creative muscles, not just in their materials or concepts for these new releases, but also coming up with something novel that fits the brand aesthetic. Something that is cohesive yet distinct in the Collections through the years and it amazes me how something as, for Savinelli, reserved as this shape is, it is still distinct.

[AW]: Oh, totally. I think that's all well said.

So there you have it. These are Savinelli's new releases for 2025. As we discussed, there's a lot of variety in this year's new models.

[KW]: You're running from reserved to ostentatious but still within Savinelli's paradigm that they released them. This is a solid offering this year and I'm really excited to see them getting into pipe smokers' hands. This is a strong set.

[AW]: I hope you guys enjoy them as much as we do and drop us a comment to let us know which one's your favorite this year.