Capstan & Three Nuns

[pitchfork]

Ted, that's sensible. (I'm all signed up, already.) But I was all ready to order before guys like Harris/cigrmaster bought it all!

 

[tedswearingen]

jiminks, I would have liked to see Three Nuns come back as a Virginia-Perique as well, but I figure what with blends like Escudo and OGS out there I'm pretty well taken care of. Besides, I love the Three Nuns blend as it is now.
I'm sorry to hear that your notifications aren't working. PM me and I'll see what I can do to take care of it ASAP.

 

[cigrmaster]

jim, my emails notifications began working again over a week ago.
Ted, thanks for the explanation, I was wondering why it went down. Next time I would appreciate a hand written letter sent by courier letting me know you are having issues, thanks. :lol:
pitchfork, since Mac Baren is involved in this I am confident supply will not be a big issue after the initial offering. They have kept the supply of ODF up with some serious demand on it.

 

[hfearly]

Three Nuns

Tobacco: Virginia (Africa), Dark Fired Kentucky (Africa)

From Kevin's post. Disappointment :-( Oh dear gods of the Perique, where art thou?

 

[pitchfork]

pitchfork, since Mac Baren is involved in this I am confident supply will not be a big issue after the initial offering. They have kept the supply of ODF up with some serious demand on it.

Yeah, that seems like a reasonable assumption. Still, it wouldn't surprise me if SP sells out for a few days after the initial offering.

 

[JimInks]

Ted,

I have the notifications taken care of now. Thanks for the offer to help.
I like the current Three Nuns and am smoking a bowl now, but I don't love it. I want to love it, but it's just not the same as a VaBur. Too bad someone at MacBaren wasn't thinking.

 

[teufelhund]

About how much blending perique do you think you'd have to add to make as close to the original as possible?

 

[JimInks]

+1, Rothnh.

 

[Wellington]

I'm really let down that it isn't the original version. Why? WHY?! It seems everyone I've talked to or read about minus a couple people loved the original version but dislike the current.

Not sure if I'll even bother ordering it anymore, I might try a tin, who knows, I might like it I guess.

 

[Wellington]

I'm interested in this Capstan stuff, I love the tin packaging on it (shallow, I know) but I think I'll order a tin of the navy flake and I'll still order a Three Nuns to give it a try I think. I still haven't had a virginia dominated tobacco yet (besides some dark cavendish if you count that). I have an unopened tin of Orlik Golden Sliced waiting to, it might be a couple months till I get to it though.

 

[peckinpahhombre]

Has anyone tried the Peter Heinrich special curley? It is the same cut as three nuns and has perique.

 

[JimInks]

Peck: there's very little perique in it. Even when I add perique to it, it's not near Three Nuns. PC does not have the Brazilian lights that helps give Three Nuns its flavor. It's a decent blend on it's own, and with added perique, it's about 70% "there", but no cigar, in my opinion.

 

[pitchfork]

I've tried the Special Curly. It's good, but not loaded with perique as far as I can tell. Then again, some of the coins have more "dark stuff" in them than others, and I've only tried it two or three times. In any case, I've never had the original Three Nuns, so I can't compare it to that.
It reminds me a bit of the Lakeland flakes -- not that there's any Lakeland flavor in it, but it has that very soft, leathery, rounded taste to it. I wish I could be of more help here, Peck, but I need to spend a little more time getting to know this blend.

 

[peckinpahhombre]

I hear you. It is very odd to say that PH SC is closer to Three Nuns than Three Nuns!

 

[JimInks]

Coalsmoke, that description is incorrect. Neither Orlik or MacBaren is producing a perique version of Three Nuns. Synjeco never changed the description from the old VaPer days. Several people over the years, including me, have tried to get them to correct it, but they never would. If they had been selling a perique version all these years, we'd know. I sure would because I've ordered Three Nuns from them since 2000, and in all the years Three Nuns has been a VaBur, that description has remained. And that includes the time Three Nuns was virtually "only" a Virginia/Brazilian blend with no perique and no Kentucky.

 

[sjpipesmoker]

I don't smoke virginia or VA/Per blends, but might just have to pick up some Three Nuns for the heck of it!

 

[pitchfork]

Someone on another forum posted this:

Don't Believe the Hype

Yo Chuck, they must be on a pipe, right?

I had totally forgotten about the line about a "pipe." If you're of a certain age, this reference is pretty funny.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Might have to pick up a tin of each. I do enjoy a good Virginia from time to time and would like to give the classic VaPer Three Nuns a go.

 

[cigrmaster]

peck, the Heinrichs is nothing like TN in my opinion. It is a decent blend that will benefit from aging and I think it might be the exact same thing as Wessex Brigade Sovereign Curly Cut. I have had both and really cannot tell them apart. I first picked up the Wessex hoping it would be a substitute for TN, but alas it is a shadow. Tried the Heinrichs and same thing. If I did not have a frame of reference I probably wouldn't be as critical of the other 2, but I had an open tin of TN to compare to the Wessex and tried the heinrichs within in a short time of finishing the TN. I even got an aged sample of the Wessex to try and while it was better, still not TN.

 

[tennsmoker]

With all this talk of Three Nuns Original with Virginia and perique and what Mac Baren is coming up with for a new roll out later in June, I decided to have a deep look into my cellar.
I thought I remembered buying Three Nuns years ago, and then forgetting about it.
Sure enough, Three Nuns Tobacco in a 100g tin. “None Nicer,” it says on the front. Right there in my little ol' cellar.
The backside of the tin shows that I cellared it in 1997. It was distributed by James B. Russell, INC. On the bottom of the backside it says:
"Made in Denmark under License of Imperial Tobacco Limited England."
Now, I had honestly forgotten about this tin. I can’t recall where I bought it, but it might have been while in Europe on an assignment of some sort.
Now, I know there are tobacco scholars here that can tell me quickly whether or not this is the Old Original with perique or some of the stuff that arrived in America with burley and no perique.
It does not say on the tin anywhere. I guess you were expected to know your tobaccos back then, and I must admit that I thought I was pretty sharp. Obviously, I wasn’t as sharp as I let on to be.
Anyway, enough prattling from me. I have also supplied two photos: front and back.
Anyone who can shed light on this tin as to whether it is the Old Deal or the New Deal will be much, much appreciated.