Holy Smokes Batman ! This must be gold
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The interesting thing is that even if the winner posts about smoking it on a forum, I wonder if he/she would admit if it was a horrid experience. If you spend that much, could you be honest enough to say you wasted your money?
Garfinkels Orient Express, Gallahers Latakia, Sullivan Powell Gentlemans Mixture - there's lots of tobacco that sells at about the fifty dollar/oz. price when the moon is in the right phase.
I buy it when I've got money, and I watch it pass me by when I don't.
I buy it when I've got money, and I watch it pass me by when I don't.
As someone who also smoked some of that 85 year old smoke, I could only assume this tin to be excellent.
As a side note, the difference between the Revelation and the modern "Epiphany "is like Knob Creek whiskey to a quart of Mad Dog.
As a side note, the difference between the Revelation and the modern "Epiphany "is like Knob Creek whiskey to a quart of Mad Dog.
well i think there are a couple of GL Please blends that may be worth saving also i think a tin of todays EMP or Nightcap may have some value in 20-40 years also several tins of your favorite SG blends you never know
It seems to me that a blend lives and dies by reputation alone. When I first started smoking people absolutely hated Erinmore. To the point of it being the butt of every joke, the pipe salt treatment was first tossed about on Pipes digest to get rid of Erinmore ghosts. Now people like it..... Bengal Slices is another blend that people did not really care for then on the net, but now is sought after. PCCA blends were very big when I started smoking because of certain people inside the pipe smoking community. Now they are gone. The first time I heard about cellering tobacco was in reference to PCCA blends, and the Mclelland's 1999 Christmas cheer. I think pipe smoking is such a small fraternity that a few people with high standing in the fraternity can really change the way the majority of smokers feel about certain blends. That can drastically change the value of a tin that someone put back. A good review by the right person hitting certain sentimental notes can make a tin of otherwise decent VA PER blended tobacco seem like the smoke of Olympus. I'm not saying Balken was not great, just not to the legendary price it has achieved. I feel the exact same way about wine, look at the way pinots were priced after a certain movie a few years ago. Cigars suffer the same disease, with the ratings scale and Cigar mags. Smoke what you like, write honest reviews, cellar what you want to smoke in a few years, and hope someone noteworthy waxes poetic about it, so you can sell it for 20 times what you paid for it...
It's all pretty subjective, and funny. I got a ten year old 50g tin of McClelland #25 the other day. 7.50 on ebay. That tin would smoke wonderfully today, and will be sublime when I open it in 10 years or so.
I'm in a bit of a bidding war for a tin of Bohemian Scandal, it will top 100 dollars before it's done. Is it really worth thirteen times the price of the #25? To me, yes, to alot of people it's sheer stupidity. C'est la vie.
I'm in a bit of a bidding war for a tin of Bohemian Scandal, it will top 100 dollars before it's done. Is it really worth thirteen times the price of the #25? To me, yes, to alot of people it's sheer stupidity. C'est la vie.
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