John Rolfe-Peach Brandy tobacco

[hobie1dog]

Has any of the Old Timers smoked this popular blend back in the 70's?
A great friend stopped by on Saturday and saw my pipes, and told me he smoked only this blend when he smoked a pipe years ago. I researched and found out that Lane Limited makes a copy of it.

 

[cacooper]

Greetings,
Unfortunately, Lane no longer makes John Rolfe. It was one of casualties of the R.J. Reynolds era, along with Four Seasons, Holiday, V.I.P., Edgeworth, Rum & Maple, and SWR Special Mixture.
Don't know if the new ownership (STG) plans to bring it back or not. Shame if they don't, it was pretty good.
CACooper

 

[reichenbach]

Thank you so much for this info. I posted in the hard-to-find tobaccos thread about this but to no avail. My dad mentioned he used to smoke this blend at christmas time as a treat/change of pace.
He is the kind of guy that never asks for anything but is constantly trying to give his shirt away so hopefully this will be a nice surprise for him.
THANK YOU!

 

[judcole]

I smoked a pouch back when I first started. Didn't work for me, IIRC.

 

[hobie1dog]

http://www.pipetobacco.com/our-john-rolfe-copy.html
This place above has a listing for a copy of it.

 

[captainbob]

I certainly remember this blend and I thought it was very good. I am age 62 and remember those very special blends from many years past. By the way, a good substitute, in my opinion, is Cornell and Diehl's #403 Peach Brandy.

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[puffy]

I've never been big on alcohol flavored tobacco.The ones that I've tried seemed to be a bit on the hot side

 

[hobie1dog]

Thanks Bob, I'll be on the lookout for that one.

 

[papipeguy]

Yep, back in the '70's I think I tried all of the "drug store" blends. many were not very good but some were pretty good. Revelation and Barking Dog come to mind. C&D'd Epiphany is supposed to be like Revelation, although I have not tried it yet.

 

[hobie1dog]

I got my copy of the Peach Brandy baccy in the other day, and it is your typical aromatic, nice flavorful blend for the first 1/2 of the bowl, then the stuff goes away quickly like all the other aromatics I've tried.