(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…
Take A Trip To Flavortown!
The Mayor of Flavortown, Chef Guy Fieri, has a stealth love for cigars that he doesn’t share through his shows on the Food Network, but he’s a big fan nonetheless. He’s such a fan of cigars that he’s teamed up with Eric Espinosa to release Knuckle Sandwich. Available in both Habano and Maduro wrappers, both cigars are what Guy would…
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…
COMING APRIL 19TH — LIMITED EDITION PETERSON BARD
I get many requests for a pipe with a long stem, but not too long, like a churchwarden. The Bard from Peterson of Dublin fills that profile perfectly… The word bard is derived from the Irish term meaning poet, traditionally one reciting epics within a particular oral tradition, and appropriately, the Peterson Bard line nods to the tavern pipes that…
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,…
The La Palina Experience
March 16th thru April 4th we’re spotlighting the La Palina line of cigars here at Chesapeake. Although La Palina has roots that go back to 1896, brand recognition isn’t very robust. As we personally selected several of the La Palina lines for inclusion in our humidor, we are very committed to introducing these cigars to a larger number of our…
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…
Viva La Libertad!
To christen its new premium cigar factory in Esteli, Nicaragua, Villiger has taken one of its value brands, La Libertad, and completely recreated it from the ground up. The results? FANTASTIC! Really! This new version of La Libertad is sure to make a huge splash on 2022’s Best Cigar lists at the end of the year. Find out more about…