Hello Oldpops,
I first fell in love with the mixture when I was a freshman in college and trips home meant a subsequent run to Williamsburg, VA to pick up some more. When I ran low with no trip home in the immediate future, I would order it by mail. The campus P.O. was run by students & one of the guys told me that everyone loved it when my order arrived because the box smelled so good. A some point in the year or two following college, the shop in Williamsburg closed. I tried contacting the owner to see if it was a blend he had put together or something he got from a distributor but I never heard from him again.
Thus began my long search for the mixture. About nine or ten years later, I had moved to Charlottesville, VA & the local tobacconist found something similar from Century that I smoked for a couple of years but he never re-ordered it. I was visiting one of my old haunts, Tobacco House Ltd., in Richmond, VA and decided to try something different. I picked up this one jar labeled Heather Honey & when I stuck my nose in it, there was my old friend again.
The shop was purchased by a small chain and they carried it for a while but suddenly ran out. I called the main store and got a cock & bull story about the blend's demise but could not find out whom the distributor was.
I continued my search but eventually gave up as nothing lasts forever. On Christmas Day, I Googled Heather Honey for the fun of it on my smart phone & was rewarded with not one but several possible sources. Most of 'em turned out to be dead-ends but this one shoppe in TX still seemed to carry it and now you know the rest of the story.
The recipe has been around for at least 40 years and the tobacco that arrived in the post on Fri. smells quite close to what Tobacco House carried. I've only had time for two bowls since then and while the jury's still out, I suspect that I'll be ordering 8 oz. in a few weeks.
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