My only holiday blend is Dan Tobaccos Christmas tobacco. I really would like to try others too, but they are hard to find.
Favorite Holiday Blends?
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i’m with youChristmas Cheer
% on this. I am so thankful I stocked up in 2016 and 2017 — it’s so fine that i smoke a bit of it throughout the year…. even some this morning 
Careful what ya wish for….
lol. Just kidding. There is a Secret Santa event on this forum. It’s pretty great.
Careful, the more we all talk about it, the sooner it arrives.
The participants is what make PMSS so great.
For me, it's the time when Latakia starts to re-intrigue...
Wilke Santa’s Blend
The Storyteller’s Pipe The Holly King
Sutliff Christmas Spice
The Storyteller’s Pipe The Holly King
Sutliff Christmas Spice
I'm in Arizona and even next week the temperature will be 114 degrees. Once the temps drop into the 70's, I begin returning to English blends. So for me, holiday blends are the nice comfy warmth of a good English blend. Any of the Germain englishes, Lancers slices, SG Balkan, GH Bob's chocolate come to mind.
I don’t think it is a Christmas blend particularly, but I enjoy Russ Tastykake during the winter.
I smoke HH Vintage Syrian and Christmas Cheer during the month of December. I can’t afford to smoke them anymore than that, but they both suit the cold weather and make Christmas time even more special.
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I had my first taste of the Tastykake last week (I got a big ol' 4oz chunk) and it was really nice, very satisfying.
Is there anything more beautiful than a huge cube of pressed tobacco?
I checked my cellar and found these.
I did not even remember I had those
I did not even remember I had those
never noticed myself, but do companies release special blends for holidays? I'm thinking european ones.
any detail would be great if you guys know.
any detail would be great if you guys know.
kohlhase and Rattray's normally do. It's a bit hit or miss whether we get them in the UK, though. I have cellared a few from years gone by. The Gawith Christmas blend is always available over here. No idea of its availability elsewhere.
Gawith Rum Flake always goes down well at Christmas time.
I still have some McClelland Christmas Cheer - 2017, and I recently picked up some Rattray's Winter Edition. I don't have a go to Holiday blend, but I usually smoke my aromatics more during the holiday season.
It's not really marketed as a Christmas blend but I'm gonna say Plum Pudding. It's such a full, flavourful blend that stands up well to rich meals and desserts.
Dang it, JS, your post has been bugging me all week. I definitely have seasonal preferences, and never thought about that. I grew up rural and agrarian in Alabama, so maple syrup wasn't a local thing, but sorghum was. It's pressed in the late summer or fall, so maybe it's just a sugar syrup thing that got misaligned somehow. I'm still going to enjoy my Maple Shadows this fall, but your observation has definitely broadened my perspective.
On "hay season-" that usually meant fescue grass, and was always a nasty, toilsome activity that was physically exhausting and wrought havoc on my sinuses. I've never understood reviewers finding notes of hay in tobacco. Sometimes "grass," yes, if that means rye. But not the majority of what I associate with "hay" (we did sometimes bail rye, but not much.) But I agree, Virginia goes with the hay season, but not because it tastes like it. That would be awful.
Because that's when those same trees are putting on a show. People with fly and drive many miles to see Autumn colors.