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    New GL Pease tobacco forthcoming: Virginia Cream

    http://www.glpease.com/ Announced yesterday: Sounds like an aromatic to me. Never thought I'd see the day.
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    Rattray's Old Gowrie, Marlin Flake, and Hal O' the Wind

    Continuing my exploration of Virginias . . . Can someone with experience with all three of these talk about them a bit? I've got that Marlin Flake tends toward the plummy side of perique blends, that Hal is strong and maybe deep, and that's about it. If you had to choose one, which would it be...
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    Classic, out of production Virginia blends

    We all know the real classic oriental and latakia mixtures, and there has been a great deal of interest surrounding them the last few years. I'm thinking of blends like Balkan Sobranie White and 759, John Cotton's various latakia mixtures, Bengal Slices, Sullivan & Powell Gentleman's and Special...
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    McClelland Club & Collector Series Straight Virginias

    Continuing my exploration of Virginias . . . I'm finding that what I like in straight Viriginas are the zesty and earthy notes rather than sweetness. I've got my latakia and perique needs covered, and don't really care for burley for the most part. So far, I've smoked lots of Gawith Full...
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    Check on Your Old Tall-Style Pease Tins

    Dear folks: I've acquired some old, tall-style tins of GL Pease tobaccos over the years. I've smoked through some Bohemian Scandal, Raven's Wing, lots of Kensington, Charing Cross, Odyssey, Robusto, Stratford, etc. I've never had a problem until today, when I checked on a few tins of Samarra...
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    Who Bought the Dunhill Ye Olde Signe from Pipestud?

    Ever since I read about Dunhill's Ye Olde Signe in 2008 or so, I've wanted to try it. By all accounts, this is one of the finest Virginia blends ever made, up there with Benson & Hedges Original Virginia Flake and not much else. Since I don't have the scratch to lay out for the couple tins a...
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    Aging the GL Pease Classic Collection

    I'm a devotee of the GL Pease range, and I wanted to get everyone's experiences with aging the tobaccos in the Classic Collection. The two that I have lots of experience with are Kensington and Blackpoint. Years back when I lived in Chicago I found a few tins of Kensington from 2003 on the...
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    On Deck this Spring?

    For those seasonal smokers among us: what will you be smoking this spring? I'm getting out of my fall and winter latakia mixtures and into my VA and VA / perique blends. My staple has been Fillmore, but I'm trying to branch out a bit this spring. I'm polishing off a tin of 2009 Union Square and...
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    One Ounce GLP Samplers

    Does anyone remember these from the Chicago Show, maybe in 2007 or 2008? I think it was the Fog City Selection being offered in little one oz tins, which you could buy for maybe $5 or so. Maybe C&D was offering them, too, since they're tinned on the same line and sell at the same table in...
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    Too Cold to Smoke

    Since I don't smoke inside, my smoking habits are sometimes dictated by weather. I don't smoke much if it's in the 90s, for instance. Okay, maybe a little. I don't smoke when the wind kicks up much. And I don't smoke much when it's cold. True cold. If it's 25, I will fire up a big blend while...
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    Latakia Bombs?

    People talk a lot about latakia bombs, but I'm curious what a list of these might look like. My tolerance for latakia seems to top out at about 40-50%. Star of the East Flake is 50% and that's about as much as I can do, I think, but I can imagine blends with that much latakia that ring my bell...
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    McClelland 5100 & Blending

    I've never smoked this stuff before, but I'm interested in buying maybe a half pound of it to split into jars for aging, based on reviews. But I'm wondering if anyone has any particularly good blending recipes or ideas for this stuff. I'm not huge into burleys and don't smoke aromatics at all. A...