$12 a pound
Highly recommended
Buoy Red is a blend of Virginia bright leaf and burley and maybe some orientals and flavorings that duplicates the smell, taste, and aroma of Marlboro Red cigarettes only its milder and easier to inhale.
The closest true codger blend I can compare it to is Half and Half, but milder.
Buoy tobaccos do not list any component of foreign tobaccos, but if it was Made in USA they’d say so.
Instead the package reads, Blended and Packaged in USA.
Tobacco blending is an art and a science, and Fred Rouse and his family have been at it for eight generations in Kinston North Carolina, the heart of the Old Belt tobacco district.
There may be a dozen small tobacco companies left that all blend value bagged tobaccos and compete to but the same leaf and sell over a hundred different blends in plastic bags.
The FDA allows them to pay only $2.83 a pound tax under the “deeming rule”, which holds these are deemed the equivalent of old pipe blends made before 2007.
If there’s a really bad one, I’ve not found it yet.
The trick is to find the best one you like.
For unfiltered cigarretes I prefer Buoy Red, but in a pipe it’s a Virginia forward blend that has notes of citrus and hay and nuts and raisins.
It comes in one ounce trial packs for a little more than a dollar, so you don’t spend much to see if you like it,
Highly recommended
Buoy Red is a blend of Virginia bright leaf and burley and maybe some orientals and flavorings that duplicates the smell, taste, and aroma of Marlboro Red cigarettes only its milder and easier to inhale.
The closest true codger blend I can compare it to is Half and Half, but milder.
Buoy tobaccos do not list any component of foreign tobaccos, but if it was Made in USA they’d say so.
Instead the package reads, Blended and Packaged in USA.
Tobacco blending is an art and a science, and Fred Rouse and his family have been at it for eight generations in Kinston North Carolina, the heart of the Old Belt tobacco district.
There may be a dozen small tobacco companies left that all blend value bagged tobaccos and compete to but the same leaf and sell over a hundred different blends in plastic bags.
The FDA allows them to pay only $2.83 a pound tax under the “deeming rule”, which holds these are deemed the equivalent of old pipe blends made before 2007.
If there’s a really bad one, I’ve not found it yet.
The trick is to find the best one you like.
For unfiltered cigarretes I prefer Buoy Red, but in a pipe it’s a Virginia forward blend that has notes of citrus and hay and nuts and raisins.
It comes in one ounce trial packs for a little more than a dollar, so you don’t spend much to see if you like it,
