“Give me Liberty or Give me Death” Founding Father Patrick Henry’s powerful speech in 1775 helped ignite the War for Independence. His cry for Liberty still rings true. Tobacco farming was at the heart of Early America. This special blend is predominantly Old Belt Red Virginia’s from North Carolina combined with some lightly stoved Virginia from Brazil. Old Belt is…
Category: Pipe Tobacco
BILBO BAGGINS’ BIRTHDAY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND
I know Bilbo Baggins is a fictional character, but something so trivial as being real should not deter us from celebrating his birthday! So, Peter and I whipped-up a batch of Tewksbury & Company’s Hobbit’s Weed. We used the original recipe with the original ingredients, recreating this popular blend. We’re calling our’s Hobbit’s Weed — Second Lunch. Here’s the recipe:…
SEATTLE PIPE CLUB HOGSHEAD SIGNATURE
Welcome the inaugural blend in Seattle Pipe Clubs’ Signature Series! Starting in 1612, John Rolfe and his then wife Pocahontas, of the Jamestown Colony, began growing tobacco, naming the strain they grew after their plantation, which they called Varina Farms Plantation. This particular tobacco became known as “Virginia Tobacco.” The tobacco was shipped worldwide on ships. To keep each lot…
Carolina Red Flake 2022 Small Batch
Carolina Red Flake is quite simply the finest Virginia flake that Cornell and Diehl has ever produced.
Palmetto Balkan Small Batch Release By Cornell & Diehl
(Retail Launch Date: May 18, 2022) Cornell & Diehl recently completed their latest exciting addition to the Small Batch line: Palmetto Balkan. A tribute to Oriental-forward blends of the past, this singular Balkan mixture showcases a proprietary processing method that mellows modern Latakia’s often dominating campfire note and offers a uniquely Carolina-inspired rendition to the blend family. “While this is…
DUNBARTON TOBACCO & TRUST
“When you try to blend a cigar that everyone likes, you have ultimately created a cigar that no one loves.”— Steve Saka, Owner of DTT Cigars After nearly a year of coordination, we’ve finally added Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust cigars to our humidor. Not just a few boxes here and there. We’re bringing in all their award winning lines: Sobremesa…
Seattle Pipe Club 2022 Plum Pudding Special Reserve Flake — ON SALE 4/26/22
Over the years, the Master Blender behind the wildly popular Seattle Pipe Club line of pipe tobaccos, Joe Lankford, has earned the trust of most of the pipe smoking enthusiasts in America. Last year, Lankford released a Special Reserve Flake of his Mississippi River blend. This year, Lankford has moved on to a years old desire to create a Special…
Katerini Perique Style
NOTE: This new take on an old tobacco began as an experiment by Mark Ryan, owner of L.A. Poche Perique Tobacco, the ONLY surviving processor of original Perique tobacco. Katerini is a very important tobacco producing area in the southwest of Thessalonika on mountain slopes of mainland Greece (western Macedonia). The small, heart shaped leaf that takes the area’s name…
EIGHT STATE BURLEY SMALL BATCH
Cornell & Diehl has added a new limited edition SMALL BATCH release for the Spring of 2022 — EIGHT STATE BURLEY. Cornell & Diehl’s tribute to historic US Burley growing regions, Small Batch: Eight State Burley is an elegant and elevated take on the traditional American Burley tobacco family. Starting with a specially sourced blend of air-cured leaf from 2014,…
Gawith & Hoggarth Drop Is Here!
We waited, and waited and waited for a shipment of the highly coveted Gawith & Hoggarth Pipe Tobaccos since last spring! COVID lockdowns in England and shipping nightmares had left us high and dry for way longer than we like. We’ve received our shipment and we have a small supply of over 20 of their blends. We’re limiting quantities to…