Ten Tobaccos You Must Try Before you Die

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james80

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 16, 2012
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Amazon UK have a list of 100 books to read in your Lifetime. My variation is the ten tobaccos you must try before you die. I think it should be past or present so please include the classics of days gone by.

 

petes03

Lifer
Jun 23, 2013
6,212
10,653
The Hills of Tennessee
Here's my list;
Butera Kingfisher

Esoterica Penzance

Original Balkan Sobranie 759 (I've had McClelland and H&H's versions, and love them!)

Original Edgeworth (I've had Sutliff's match, and it's good!)

Warhorse Plug

Original Capstan (I've had Mac Baren's version, and love it!)

Original Dunhill Durbar

Original Dunhill Aperitif

Wessex Gold Brick

Any 50 year old straight Virginia.

 

lochinvar

Lifer
Oct 22, 2013
1,687
1,632
I broke it into two, because I think some of the classics are basically gone at any price. I can't remember the last time I saw a tin of Smyrna. On top of that, while we have lost many powerhouse classics, we are living in a truly blessed time as far as variety and quality go. So there was room for two :)
The Dearly Departed

1. Bengal Slices

2. John Cotton Smyrna

3. Three Nuns

4. Sullivan Powell Gentleman's Mixture

5. The Balkan Sobranie

6. Sobranie 759

7. Rattray Black Mallory (the new version has totally fallen off)

8. Dunhill Durbar

9. Bohemian Scandal

10. John Cotton No. 1
Those still with us

1. Rattray Red Rapparee (It is so awesome, even the new version is a champ)

2. Germain's Balkan Sobranie

3. Rattray Old Gowrie

4. McClelland Virginia No. 24

5. Compton's Macedonia

6. Gawith Full Virginia Flake

7. Gawith Commonwealth

8. Astley's No. 44

9. Presbyterian Mixture

10. Pease Caravan

 

lestrout

Lifer
Jan 28, 2010
1,758
283
Chester County, PA
Uh oh, looking over the lists, does this mean that once I puff Warhorse Plug and JC1, that I will have to die, since there would me no more reason to live?
hp

les

 

rmbittner

Lifer
Dec 12, 2012
2,759
1,994
Lochinvar:
Cool: I've had 8 of the blends on your "Dearly Departed" list (all but the two John Cottons) and 6 on the "still with us" list.
Bob

 

simnettpratt

Lifer
Nov 21, 2011
1,516
2
Three Nuns has also made a comeback. Having smoked neither, I do not know if the new Bell's blend is as good as the departed Bell's blend, but you can get a 50g tin from smokingpipes for $12.12. It's currently listed as their 4th best selling tin:
Three Nuns at smokingpipes
They're also currently offering a free half ounce sample with any order of tinned 'tobacoo'. [sic]

 

fishingandpipes

Part of the Furniture Now
Aug 24, 2013
654
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Escudo

Marlin Flake

Old Gowrie

Hal o the Wynd

PS LBF

St Bruno

Condor

GH Dark Flake

Revor Plug

Royal Yacht

 
May 31, 2012
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I must try Ilsted's Dark Fired Plug, hard to get German-market only stuff.
I'd love to try the various old Irish plugs, but it's not likely

PJ Carroll Donegal Plug

Clarke's Perfect Plug

Spillane Garryowen Plug

Ruddell Potomac Plug

Taylor Bendigo Plug

etc etc etc
Other old baccies of impossibility:
Bell's King's Head (stronger version of 3N)

Ogden's Spade Ace Cut Cake + St. Ino + Headway Dark Flake + Midnight Flake + Redbreast Flake

Illingworth Westland Flake (another Kendal house)

Lambert & Butler Warlock

Wills's Harpoon Black Cut Cake

Balkan Sobranie Spun Cut
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escioe

Part of the Furniture Now
Oct 31, 2013
702
4
Three Nuns has also made a comeback. Having smoked neither, I do not know if the new Bell's blend is as good as the departed Bell's blend
Not to beat a dead horse, but it isn't the same blend. It's like saying one car you have to own is a 1969 Camaro SS with the 396, and someone responding that they had a 1999 Camaro with the 3.8L V-6. The name is about the only thing that is the same. Not to say it's a bad car, but it isn't the classic.
My list:
1. Some vintage of Christmas Cheer, or McCranie's Red Flake or Red Ribbon, or well-aged McClelland 5100

2. Balkan Sobranie Original or 759

3. Esoterica Penzance or Smoker's Haven Krumble Kake

4. Gawith Full Virginia Flake or similar

5. One of the modern classic perique blends: Escudo, McClelland's St. James Woods or 2015, Pease Telegraph Hill or Fillmore

6. One of the Dunhill latakia mixes: Early Morning Pipe, London Mix, 965, or Nightcap

7. One of the Frog Mortons

8. One of the Pease Syrian blends: Bohemian Scandal, Renaissance, Raven's Wing, or Mephisto

9. One of the modern dark-fired Kentucky classics: Macbaren Old Dark Fired, Pease Jackknife Plug, Esoterica Stonehaven

10. Whatever your local place calls 1-Q

 

conlejm

Lifer
Mar 22, 2014
1,433
8
Thank you for starting this thread! I am taking copious notes as I am still a rookie.
I would love to see Jiminks top ten ... :worship:

 

masspiper

Starting to Get Obsessed
Mar 14, 2014
286
1
@petes03 you may know already but Wessex Gold Brick can be found pretty easy unless it is some old version your talking about.

 

Perique

Lifer
Sep 20, 2011
4,098
3,884
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Great thread. Not sure I can do this without a reflection of my personal tastes. I like escioe's approach.

I'm not a big enough English smoker to fairly complete a list of ten, but a few I might add/substitute into his list:
- Escudo as a prime example of a spicey-side VaPer

(contrasted with)

- Marlin Flake as a prime example of a plummy-side VaPer

- One of the Pipeworks & Wilke American-English blends to demonstrate what the lowly burley leaf can add to a Latakia blend. And perhaps one of their famous aromatic American-English blends - probably No. 5

- A classic straight burley such as Mac Baren Burley London Blend (plenty of equally good alternatives in this category)

 
Aug 14, 2012
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OK, lists are fun. Here are my 11 favorites currently available.

Bombay Court-I smoke about 3 ozs a week of this

Frog Morton

MacBaren's Syrian Vintage

Peterson's University Flake

Old Dark Fired

Hamborger Veermaster

Robert McConnell Scottish Cake

Syrian 3 Oaks

McClelland's Full Balkan

Stokkebye's English Oriental

Nightcap

 

lochinvar

Lifer
Oct 22, 2013
1,687
1,632
Bob:
Looks like we are on the right wavelength. The Cotton's were awesome, what comparatively little I got of them. Lane's LEO is closer to the original to me than the current versions of Rattray and Dunhill are to their older iterations.
escioe:
I echo your opinion of the new 3 Nun's. The new Nuns is good tobacco, but the only thing it shares with the original is the name. A marketing ploy.

 

layinpipe

Lifer
Feb 28, 2014
1,025
8
My list:
1. Stonehaven

2. Stonehaven

3. Stonehaven

4. Stonehaven

5. Stonehaven

6. Stonehaven

7. Stonehaven

8. Stonehaven

9. Stonehaven

10. Stonehaven
I fear my list will never come to fruition and that i will never be able to climb that 8oz. stairway to heaven... :(

 
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