Anyone have any info on this? I have seen ads for its release on the 19th. @JimInks, have they asked you for your review?
Low Country Atalaya
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Haven't heard of this one yet. I'll be watching the thread for some info.
It's advertised on Tobacco Reviews home page. Limited edition. Curious to know what kind of blend this will be.
This "Limited Edition" stuff is for suckers, pure and simple.
So how many tins are you buying?
I haven't tried it yet, but I'm supposed to get a tin. I wasn't given any blend details.
I thought you where a Stephen (I swear there is more to this joke then most will think, it's not random).
'splain me!
Sounds like a Firesign Theater bit (That's not a beaut, it's a plateau!).
a Stephen is a person who is the perfect and most natural target of a prank. Slang term circa 1920s-1930s and if I have my way the mid to late 2020s.
Pressed dark Virginia, oriental and perique. C&d’s in-house perique.
I got a tin of it today. Will give it a try later.
How does it feel to know that if you wrote a review that just said "wow that's good, better sell my cellar"? That you could create one of the biggest runs on a random blend ever!
Which is exactly what Jim doesn't ever do. Jim does his best to convey a verbal description of his experience smoking a particular blend, and then rates it based on his experiences with other blends of the same genre. "Like" doesn't enter into it as he doesn't rate for personal preference. We talk almost nightly and there are times when he's been weighing the rating because a particular blend falls somewhere between the points and spends days delaying and revisiting a blend before making that decision and posting that review.
If he were to rate for personal preference, a LOT of those star ratings would be different.
Jim just doesn't see personal preferences as being as useful as a carefully crafted description of the flavors he's picking up for the curious to read. Evidently that has turned out to be very beneficial to a lot of other smokers who would like some idea of a blend's flavor characteristics before purchasing.
It has also earned Jim the trust and respect of blenders from around the world, who send him samples of blends in development. When the blenders are asking you to test drive their product, that represents a very high degree of trust and respect.
There are so many times I think about stuff I could do that would cause chaos. I don't do those things, don't even want to... But part of me enjoys seeing what could be done. And to me it's funny that if he just threw his integrity out the window it could cause a silly little chain reaction.
One of my personal rules is don't give terrible advice to people who might follow it. And it wouldn't be funny to me if that was something he'd actually do. Then it would just be sad.
On the name of the blend, it's fun to say, to pronounce, but people will never say it the same or get it "right." When pipe smoking was a more sociable habit, people could have settled on a pronunciation, "correct" or not, but today, when people don't socialize nearly as much around smoking, it will be said three or four different ways, with different syllables accented. Since special editions are usually only around for a year or two, or less, it may not matter. Just a thought.
SPC has a whole article out on it now for anyone looking for more information:
www.smokingpipes.com
Low Country Atalaya | Limited-Edition Pipe Tobacco by Cornell & Diehl
Learn more about Low Country's Atalaya, a limited-edition Virginia/Oriental/Perique mixture crafted by C&D's Head Blender Jeremy Reeves
www.smokingpipes.com
