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Sorry about that, I should have placed it in another forum. I wrote that while sitting on the deck, MacBook on my lap. Was tricky to type, so I kept it short and sweet.
I am too new to tobaccos to give an informative review. I've only tried 4-5 blends so far, but this is by far my fav. Room note is nice, but not nice enough for my wife.
Burns smooth, not hot. No trouble lighting it and stayed lit. Super impressed—tasted fantastic. It's made right here in VT, but is (to my knowledge) an original blend from an old, well known tobacco shop in NYC, dating back to the 1800s.
I am too new to tobaccos to give an informative review. I've only tried 4-5 blends so far, but this is by far my fav. Room note is nice, but not nice enough for my wife.
Burns smooth, not hot. No trouble lighting it and stayed lit. Super impressed—tasted fantastic. It's made right here in VT, but is (to my knowledge) an original blend from an old, well known tobacco shop in NYC, dating back to the 1800s.
While you might be new to pipe tobaccos, you certainly were fortunate in finding one of the terrific small pipe tobacco blenders and one fine blend.
Aromatics from a place like vtpipes.com are wonderful examples of what treasures these blenders are.
Try any of their blends that sound interesting. You won't be disappointed.
Aromatics from a place like vtpipes.com are wonderful examples of what treasures these blenders are.
Try any of their blends that sound interesting. You won't be disappointed.
Smoking a bowl of Bleeker St. as I write this ... I ordered a sampler of all aros from her a couple months back, but I'm looking to order up some of her English offerings here soon. I agree, #191 is good stuff, six!!!!
Funny enough, I think that her English blends are what truly sets VTPipes apart from the rest of the world, and not the aromatics. No. 10 is Carole's take on Dunhill London Mixture, and blows it out of the water. High Hat is her take on My Mixture 965 I believe and way better. And then, there is 524 ... The absolute best herbal English / Oriental I've had the pleasure to smoke so far and I smoke pretty much everything Oriental. Her new No 5 is veeeery interesting too, with a super intense taste of pine needles, raisin, and some sweet incense. Time for me to put out an order again.
Six: You heard of mis-spent youths in pool halls. Mine was mis-spent in the Wilke pipe shop on Madison Ave in the 1950's. The better pipes were great. Never tried the tobacco.
Ha! That's awesome foggy. I am surprised you've never tried their tobacco—some of their blends are downright famous. Unfortunately Wilke is now in VT so the taxes are just too high (the new owner/blender, Carole, is not too far from me actually). Wish I could tho - love Rumcake and 191. Best aros on the market IMHO.
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