As the holiday season steamrolls over us approaches, thoughts, at least my thoughts, turn to old fashioned desserts. Fruitcake -- yes, though not the cheap artificial-dyed bricks, but a well made example; Jamaican Black Cake; Panettone; weird steamed British puddings -- I love 'em all. So naturally, I'm wondering where to get the fig fix in tobacco. I'm not talking toppings, and nothing against holiday spiced special releases, I'm talking about where the dried and stewed fruit flavor comes from the leaf itself. What are people's favorite figgy-plummy-dried cherry-raisiny blends?






