Most Unique Blends

[badbriar]

What are some of the more unique pipe blends everyone here has encountered in the past few years?
With Stoved Rustica and Orientals, Turkish Latakia and other 'new' components, there have to be some interesting ones that stand out as of late. Do Tell.

 

[kcghost]

I think HH Rustica and G.L. Pease's Geometrie are the two that come quickly to mind. These are blends that are not for everybody.

 

[prairiedruid]

War Horse Bar made by SToP

 

[prairiedruid]

Operator Error, was going to say War Horse Bar made by SToP but that was more than a few years ago.

 

[makhorkasmoker]

C&D Dark Burley. It is the only straight dark burley I have found that has not been toasted, cased, topped or otherwise adulterated. And that includes Five brothers, another unique tobacco—but one that certainly has a topping. If I am wrong, I’d love to know what others there are. If I am not, c&d dark burley is the last example of an otherwise lost genre of pipe tobacco

 

[hoipolloiglasgow]

I've noticed C&D makes A LOT of oddball blends with strange component combinations. None that particularly interest me though as I'm more of a traditional English man.

 

[sablebrush52]

Operator Error, was going to say War Horse Bar made by SToP but that was more than a few years ago.

I think it counts. Yeah more than a few years, but still unique. Seattle Pipe Club's Hogshead fits the bill for me amongst the publicly available releases.

 

[K.E. Powell]

Not sure if it is unique, but it is uniquely good: Toscano's Sinfonia. Not many blends combine both latakia and DFK and manage to make it work, but Sinfonia does just that.

In the same vein of being uniquely good and also under the banner of a cigar manufacturer, Warped's series of blends are some of the few pipe blends that use cigar leaf well. Until the End and King's Stride are particular standouts.

Cornell and Diehl has several blends in their lineup that can fit this bill. Their Old Ones line, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft, come to mind. They nearly all employ Katerini to some degree, and the aromatic blends are topped with something akin to currants or wine.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

G&H Black Irish X.

I just got 2oz after years of being intrigued by reviewers flavor notes of “asphalt” and “tastes like licking the grate if your charcoal grill” amongst others lol

 

[sablebrush52]

Come to think on it, Ken Byron Ventures is constantly putting out new small batch blends, often with high quality aged components that exist in amounts too small for more major manufacturers. A number of those blends have been highly innovative and eminently smokeable.

 

[Servant King]

Savinelli 140th Anniversary.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Savinelli 140th Anniversary.

Reminds me of Sun Bear.

 

[Chalaw87]

Come to think on it, Ken Byron Ventures is constantly putting out new small batch blends, often with high quality aged components that exist in amounts too small for more major manufacturers. A number of those blends have been highly innovative and eminently smokeable.

Ive become a big fan of KBV for this reason. I completely agree with you.

 

[mingc]

The blends that made me think, "oh, that's something new," in a good way, when I first smoked them:

• 1792 because of the tonquin and DFK
• Ennerdale because of the Lakeland topping; and
• Crooner because of the deertongue.

 

[Servant King]

Reminds me of Sun Bear.

Never had it. (watchwords of TAD?)

 

[hoipolloiglasgow]

I don't think that there is anything like Bob's Chocolate Flake. The whole lakeland style is unique to SG and G&H in itself. Also, just tried Brebbia Balkan. It's a balkan that doesn't feature Virginias, but does have perique and DFK. The perique in it is very plum-like and sort of makes up for it having no Virginias. It's actually quite good.

 

[fireground_piper]

Never had it. (watchwords of TAD?)

I'm a fan of 140th. I can't stand Sun Bear.

 

[mortonbriar]

Grousemoor, it has this apricot jam flavour that comes through to the smoke tasting like it smells, more than any other aromatic blend I have tried. I think they might have changed the sauce though? I have not purchased it recently.

 

[kola]

In the past few years? NOTHING CLOSE to the blends from the distant past. Even newer GLP blends haven't gotten my interest.

 

[kola]

Delete, smh.