Vincent Manil Réserve du Patron Tobacco Review

Vincent Manil Réserve du Patron

Goodbye, summer—hello autumn.  An interesting theory is summertime is only wildly and emphatically celebrated for one reason:  for a long time, many schooling and education models were designed to both […]

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G.L. Pease Samarra Review 2011 Vintage

G.L. Pease Samarra Tobacco

There are few things nicer than experiencing the satisfactory hiss of a tin of pipe tobacco that’s been waiting for you to pop it open for a decade.  The smell […]

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Cornell & Diehl Americana Tobacco Review

Hot, hot, hot.  The American West started summer with a hellish vengeance before summer even officially began. It’s made doing everything difficult.  Places like the Northwestern states were seeing temperatures […]

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G.L. Pease Windjammer Tobacco Review

G. L. Pease Windjammer Tobacco

The year is nearly half over, and what a year it’s been so far.  There’s lots of talk of life “getting back to normal,” yet even with the mechanics of […]

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Plum Pudding Special Reserve Flake Review

Plum Pudding Special Reserve Flake

There’s a strange phenomenon happening around the world:  people are starting to come out of their post-pandemic stupors and panics and…gathering again.  This might serve as a cause for celebrations, […]

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C&D Oak Alley Tobacco Review

One quarter of the year 2021 is gone already.  It’s as if each upcoming moment turns to the one before it and says, “Hey dude, hold my beer.”  For example, […]

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C&D Yale Mixture 2010 Tobacco Review

Yale Mixture Tobacco 2010

It surprises a few people when they learn I write my reviews in a small, outdoor space barely big enough to fit two folding chairs, attached to an expensive apartment […]

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Hearth and Home “Bright Night” Tobacco Review

Bright-Night-Tobacco

Not too long ago, Brian Levine and I chatted on his radio show about brick-and-mortar tobacco stores, tobacconists and how special (and arguably essential) they are. As is known, I […]

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Peterson Elizabethan Mixture Tobacco Review

Peterson Elizabethan Mixture

If current events have shown anything about humanity, it’s about our attitude. Sometimes it’s admirable and resilient other times it’s cringey and embarrassing. My attitude has struggled through simple activities […]

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Sutliff Cringle Flake 2020 Tobacco Review

Sutliff Cringle Cake 2020

I feel like a cliché and cartoonish version of Paul Revere going into the end part of this year, “The Holidays are coming!  The Holidays are coming!” as if there […]

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