How Many Tobacco Blends in Your Cellar That You've Never Tried?
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When it comes to the number of blends in my cellar that I am yet to try, it is fairly substantial. That being said, any single blend represented in sufficient quantity has been thoroughly sampled and determined "worthy."
Basically, when I started I spent a year and a half researching and smoking my way through many different "blend genera's." Once I settled on some favorite's (really, there weren't many I didn't enjoy), I went to work on building my cellar. I slowly started buying multiple tins of blends I knew and loved. And when there was something new that peaked my interest I bought 3 (1 for now, 1 for later, and 1 for much later). The idea was always that I would buy more of what I really love, but eventually got to the point that there was just no more point in buying additional tobacco.
Today, I have a better selection of blends to choose from out of my own cellar than any tobacconist within driving distance of my house. I have a very healthy supply of blends that I know and enjoy, with a tremendous selection of new blends for when my curiosity peaks, or I'm in the mood for something different.
I guess I was fortunate in that it was easy for me to find / separate the tobacco's I liked and didn't like. I found some blending houses that worked for my tastes (helping me navigate my purchases), and some that definitely did not (which I tended to avoid). Once I found a criteria for my tobacco preferences, building a cellar was easy. However, applying the breaks, and eventually pulling out entirely, was much more difficult. :
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Basically, when I started I spent a year and a half researching and smoking my way through many different "blend genera's." Once I settled on some favorite's (really, there weren't many I didn't enjoy), I went to work on building my cellar. I slowly started buying multiple tins of blends I knew and loved. And when there was something new that peaked my interest I bought 3 (1 for now, 1 for later, and 1 for much later). The idea was always that I would buy more of what I really love, but eventually got to the point that there was just no more point in buying additional tobacco.
Today, I have a better selection of blends to choose from out of my own cellar than any tobacconist within driving distance of my house. I have a very healthy supply of blends that I know and enjoy, with a tremendous selection of new blends for when my curiosity peaks, or I'm in the mood for something different.
I guess I was fortunate in that it was easy for me to find / separate the tobacco's I liked and didn't like. I found some blending houses that worked for my tastes (helping me navigate my purchases), and some that definitely did not (which I tended to avoid). Once I found a criteria for my tobacco preferences, building a cellar was easy. However, applying the breaks, and eventually pulling out entirely, was much more difficult. :
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57 untried blends. The tins I have had the longest are McClellands Three Oaks, and Arcade, that I purchased in 2009. The oldest thing that I have not tried is Parson's Pleasure, from 1991.
I was in the habit of buying tins of things I wanted to try, then saving them at least two years for aging. Then more new blends would appear, and I would buy those. Then I would try more new blends, that I didn't want to wait two years to try, and then I would try new blends at club meetings or when I visited shops in the different cities or countries I had visited. Then I would get into my head that I want to finish the tobaccos I have open before opening another tin. Now I have 29 blends open. And making my own mixtures entered the fray. I have a tin of Dunhill flake on the way, which I have never tried either, but I want to mix some of that with some Squadron Leader, because I read somewhere that it was like Penzance. Sigh, it must be a sickness. But who wants a cure? Heh heh.
I was in the habit of buying tins of things I wanted to try, then saving them at least two years for aging. Then more new blends would appear, and I would buy those. Then I would try more new blends, that I didn't want to wait two years to try, and then I would try new blends at club meetings or when I visited shops in the different cities or countries I had visited. Then I would get into my head that I want to finish the tobaccos I have open before opening another tin. Now I have 29 blends open. And making my own mixtures entered the fray. I have a tin of Dunhill flake on the way, which I have never tried either, but I want to mix some of that with some Squadron Leader, because I read somewhere that it was like Penzance. Sigh, it must be a sickness. But who wants a cure? Heh heh.
I just added it up and I have 356 different blends and I have tried about 46 of them. So I have 310 blends I have not tried. Do I have TAD or what?
I have 18 blends waiting to be tried.
Zito... WOW! :worship:
I am waiting for Peck to chime in and let us know how much of the MOTHERLODE he has sampled. I'm thinking he might beat Zito.
Zito... WOW! :worship:
I am waiting for Peck to chime in and let us know how much of the MOTHERLODE he has sampled. I'm thinking he might beat Zito.
Peck has me beat, maybe, maybe not. I retire the end of this month and I can really start my piping in earnest. The tobacco cellar site says I have enough for 37 years, hmmm guess I have to live to 110. I can do it!
I currently have 31 blends in my cellar that I haven't tried. That's mainly because I have about 45 mason jars with tobacco that I'm currently smoking from. I usually don't open a new tin until I finish off a mason jar or two.
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