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  1. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    Goes great with Mad Dog 20/20 Grape, or at least as well as anything can go with Mad Dog Grape.
  2. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    Sutliff is definitely the greater loss. They have a few blends that go head-to-head with STG, and I have never experienced Sutliff losing in those contests. Without their blending components, I am going to have to start buying whole leaf tobacco. Even C&D doesn’t have Sutliff’s range. As...
  3. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    And now you have rolled that old bucket of sunshine, Reinhold Niebuhr, into this.
  4. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    I do not disagree with that statement in general terms. In this case, though, I don’t think “grow or perish” applies. From what I have read here and elsewhere, STG are casting off too many products, distribution deals, and retail outlets that were sufficiently profitable for Mac Baren/Sutliff...
  5. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    This is why I miss a political scientist named James C. Scott. He was the best at explaining the state as counting, categorizing, and controlling entity. He was no fan of control by massive corporations, either.
  6. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    I know it’s too late. I’m just in that stage of grief. I should’ve specified: I meant Laudisi had been good to Peterson pipes. Gee thanks, mister!
  7. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    There has been acknowledgment that STG make some good tobaccos. They have not always been stewards of their acquisitions. That is, at least for me, the concern.
  8. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    The sad thing is that I think it really is more about rooting out the last recalcitrant tobacco smokers than raising revenue. Tobacco control is a quasi-religion.
  9. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    The hammer will come down anyway. It is a hammer, and all tobacco products look like nails to that blunt instrument.
  10. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    That is encouraging. I keep hearing they “go rancid.” I have not experienced that, but the oldest I have smoked out of a jar from my cellar was eight years old.
  11. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    One thing has been gradually working its way into my thoughts on STG and our concerns about what it might do to blends we love: STG-made Warrior Plug, Mick McQuaid Plug, and Velvan Plug were highly sought after for good reason. STG don’t ruin everything. I hope they will be good to their new...
  12. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    I stocked quite a few things. My old oriental blends with Yenidje and some others were accidentally fortuitous hoarding decisions. I did not see the death of Sutliff coming, though. We will probably see an event nobody would have bet on: a scramble for Mixture 79. Unfortunately blends with...
  13. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    Thanks for that (no sarcasm). I thought this was the case, but then all those Per Jensen creations kept rolling out.
  14. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    This is the main reason it occurred to me that Sutliff can still be saved. Unless STG wants to lock Per Georg Jensen in a blending room it Jutland, I cannot see what they really want from Sutliff. They may not care about collateral damage, but they should be able to smell the opportunity to...
  15. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    Yes, mum is the word.
  16. buroak

    What's Up With The New Gawith Hoggarth Blends?

    Seeing as Laudisi is bringing back old blends like Rich Dark Honeydew, and introducing ropes they haven’t sold before, would you please tell them there is interest in Grasmere? I emailed them about it several months back, but the customer service team didn’t seem to understand that the blend...
  17. buroak

    What's Up With The New Gawith Hoggarth Blends?

    What racist EU official thought children would be attracted to a throat burning liquid, but repelled by a Jamaican?
  18. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    I want to adhere to the no-politics proviso, but I think someone should point out that this may be payback for all the times Americans have railed against Scandinavian socialism. This might just be the Dane’s “Coward of the County” moment proving how wide of the mark all the taunting has been.
  19. buroak

    Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

    I wish Laudisi would save Sutliff and partner it with C&D. If you combined both companies’ sourcing and produced the final product at Sutliff, the sporadic mold incidents would disappear and we would have great leaf in the hands of a world-beating blending team. Is there any way this could...
  20. buroak

    What's Up With The New Gawith Hoggarth Blends?

    It was Rich Dark Honeydew. It was pretty good.
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