One Tobacco To Rule Them All

[ChippewaAce]

Hello all! Been searching the forum and have found answers to this question here and there, but not (from what I could find) in a thread dedicated to it.

For a few different reasons, I'm waning my pipe tobacco down to one blend. I'm currently in the process of determining what that blend will be. I don't have the most discerning palette in the world, most blends please me unless they're too dry. I'm personally looking for something of deep quality, without a lot of added chemicals or flavoring. I do love me some flake tobacco as well.

I'm curious while I'm in my search, if you had to pick ONE blend to rule them all, to smoke for the rest of your life, what would it be and why?

 

[Es0teric]

Right now my answer would probably be Dunhill/Peterson Flake. It seems to be the most balanced and most satisfying Virginia blend I have smoked.

 

[aquadoc]

Couldn't nor wouldn't do it. Maybe 1 from each blend type. Maybe that would be doable. Maybe not. Why limit one's pleasure to only one delicious delicacy on a table filled with delicious delicacies?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Why limit yourself to just one blend? ...especially when you aren't even sure which one?

 

[DanWil84]

No. Just no. Can't do it, won't do it.

But to answer your question, if I could pick one blend which I know right now only it would be Ascanian #2 from Dan Tobacco. For me incredible VaPer with enough perique (10%) to not be just Virginia which most acclaimed VaPer blends give me.

 

[Grangerous]

A dedicated one-blend smoker is a rare bird indeed. I’m of that genre.

I sample other blends but when I return to Granger, it solidifies my love of this simple blend.

But it seems you are enamored with the “idea” of smoking only one blend and I have to agree with others whom have asked, why?

Granger clicks with me to the point where I have to be in the mood to reach for something else but I didn’t plan it this way.

Yes, I’ve discovered a few blends that would keep me happily smoking if Granger was no longer available, but It wouldn’t be the same.

I’m definitely in the minority on this forum.

 

[jiminy]

Intriguing question! I haven't explored enough tobacco's to quite be content with only one, but I have given thoughts to limiting myself to one or so in each major category.

Anyways, if I had to choose right now, I think it would have to be either Hunting Creek. It is the one I always gravitate towards lately, a wonderful english-aro

 

[Flatfish]

Though I am a non smoker, and therefore have no experience. I sort of understand the mindset of finding "the one".
In my "virtual" research I was looking at reviews of Capstan blue and Peterson Flake and thinking that if I was a smoker that one of them would be what I would choose.
But if I did try smoking I might hate them. So my opinion is technically of no value whatsoever.

Currently struggling with fountain pen acquisition disorder. I think my "one" is the Jinhao X750. I have three of them.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Though I am a non smoker, and therefore have no experience. I sort of understand the mindset of finding "the one".
In my "virtual" research I was looking at reviews of Capstan blue and Peterson Flake and thinking that if I was a smoker that one of them would be what I would choose.
But if I did try smoking I might hate them. So my opinion is technically of no value whatsoever.

Currently struggling with fountain pen acquisition disorder. I think my "one" is the Jinhao X750. I have three of them.

This has to be the most intriguing post on this forum that I've ever seen. You don't smoke? Do you just collect pipes as Object d'Art, or do you plan to start smoking?

 

[BriarBrook]

Would never willingly limit my options, but if i HAD TO, would be Sutliff Vanilla Custard. It is my go to, and the wife loves the room note and the smell in my beard. Burns really well. There you go.

 

[LotusEater]

I’m a smoker.
There are a number of blends I could happy smoking all day everyday but if push came to shove I don’t know which of these I would choose. It would probably be a light to medium English with some sour Oriental notes.

 

[Flatfish]

This has to be the most intriguing post on this forum that I've ever seen. You don't smoke? Do you just collect pipes as Object d'Art, or do you plan to start smoking?

No plans to start. Just curious. I just like finding out about stuff. I have no pipes or any smoking paraphernalia. Unless you count a box of matches.
i feel something of an imposter lurking on this site, but its quite interesting being here.

 

[btp79]

3P's for no other reason than I have a ##@$ ton of it.

 

[burleybreath]

I'll play, just for the hell of it. Even though I haven't smoked it in a while, I think I would pick C&D's Epiphany. Yup, I know I would.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

No plans to start. Just curious. I just like finding out about stuff. I have no pipes or any smoking paraphernalia. Unless you count a box of matches.
i feel something of an imposter lurking on this site, but its quite interesting being here.

I think that you should at least buy a pipe, but it is merely a suggestion. We have had pipe collectors that don't smoke on here, and I met a young kid at a pipe shop once who was accompanied by his parents because he collected pipes as mere objects, but he also obviously on spectrum.

Interesting. I'm not sure I would be comfortable here as a non-smoker. Anyways, I was very curious...

 

[Etipton]

I pick tobacco…in my pipe, the rest is just a name on a tin.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

We have multiple versions of this question posted regularly... If you could only smoke one blend... your deserted island blend... etc... my response is always the same. If I was restricted to just one blend, I'd quit. I'm here to taste and explore variety. I was a one brand cigarette smoker for decades, and I have no interested in doing that again. But, I could see if someone found a blend and just fell in love with it... but, even that is sort of weird to me, ha ha.

 

[lochinvar]

For me it would be Capstan Blue, assuming you didn't care about price

If you want to save some and still have a great Virginia flake (though not quite as fine as Capstan), Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake. Great tobacco, and you can buy it by the pound box.

 

[reloader]

I understand that almost none of the members would intentionally limit themselves to just one blend, myself included. To answer the question that if I had to choose one because everything else was just gone, I would probably choose Haunted Bookshop.

 

[SBC]

Though I am a non smoker, and therefore have no experience. I sort of understand the mindset of finding "the one".
In my "virtual" research I was looking at reviews of Capstan blue and Peterson Flake and thinking that if I was a smoker that one of them would be what I would choose.
But if I did try smoking I might hate them. So my opinion is technically of no value whatsoever.

Currently struggling with fountain pen acquisition disorder. I think my "one" is the Jinhao X750. I have three of them.

Flatfish, you crack me up! When you first showed up as a non-smoker with an abstract and theoretical curiosity about pipe smoking, I thought for sure that one of two things would happen: [1] Within two weeks you'd be telling us that you bought a pipe and were learning to smoke it, or [2] within two weeks you'd be gone.

But here you are, still actively participating on a pipe smoking forum -- even going so far as to study online reviews of tobaccos in order to form an opinion about which one might be your favorite (if you were a pipe smoker) (!) -- yet without smoking a pipe!

Don't get me wrong, you are more than welcome -- we're thrilled that you're here!

I grew up in an ardently anti-smoking household. I told my dad that I'd never smoke... but that IF I did, it would be a pipe. Well, here we are.
Often, desire is precursor to belief, and interest is precursor to practice. I still predict that you'll wind up a pipe smoker, one of these days ;-)

Oh, and, I recently got my second Jinhao X750. I traded out the converters in both of them to much better standard international converters, and traded out both nibs to JoWo #6s.
Great pen, especially with these mods. My only complaint is that I wish it were a screw cap.

Oh, to answer to OP, maybe HH Pure Virginia.