When I only want a short puff, I resort to DGT. This works well with light Englishes, great with VAs. The only blend it bombed out on was Pirate Kake - dunno if it was the burley or the high Lat dose that was the culprit. But I did get a handful of these lady sized pipes for club meetings and pipe shows, as taster pipes. You don't get the full flavor development a larger pipe would deliver with a good VA but I could make the decision to get a tin from those Group1 or even Group0.5 minis. Besides, at a pipe club meeting, when a member offers me some 40YO blend he'd been cellaring, it would make me feel like a mooch if I brought out an ODA or a 3 inch bowled Italian warhorse that was a Group55.
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