Per Jensen’s Upcoming Blends at C&D

[Mike N]

Interesting interview this week on Brian Levine’s radio show with Per Jensen, who now blends with Jeremy Reeves at C&D. Per said the most pleasant surprise was how pure and uncased C&D leaves its blends compared to Mac Baren’s, and the superior quality of the tobacco C&D sources. Can’t wait to try his upcoming 4 new blends dedicated to his father, the Danish pipemaker, Georg Jensen. These will be ongoing blends that meet the deeming standards, and not limited small batch. Available first week of September. Thank you Sykes.

 

[AirOne]

I’m looking forward to his C&D interpretation of "what Capstan Blue might have been like in those days". If I’m not mistaken, this represents his Mac Baren-era version: (availble only from cigarworld.de : Bloemfontein Pfeifentabak kaufen | Cigarworld - https://www.cigarworld.de/tabak/pfeifentabak/cigarworld-pipes-tabac-benden-bloemfontein-navy-cut-100g-dose-90015895_44995)

 

[Steddy]

That was an interesting episode as C&D is what I seem to prefer. When I smoke other producers blends I ask myself, why does this tobacco taste artificial? To each their own but this episode further reinforces my thoughts on C&D.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

That was an interesting episode as C&D is what I seem to prefer. When I smoke other producers blends I ask myself, why does this tobacco taste artificial? To each their own but this episode further reinforces my thoughts on C&D.

Those are usually my thoughts too. After you acclimate yourself to smoking uncased tobaccos, all of that European stuff tastes like aromatics, IMO.

 

[isaac]

That was an interesting episode as C&D is what I seem to prefer. When I smoke other producers blends I ask myself, why does this tobacco taste artificial? To each their own but this episode further reinforces my thoughts on C&D.

I prefer C&D now that everything else has been taken away :P

 

[Hutch Piper]

Agree, great episode! So happy for Per and C&D. Seems like a great match. The best news was he’s not done with these four blends - he has many more planned. Can’t wait to see what he comes up with.

 

[anotherbob]

Per is reminding me of someone that's marriage ended after many decades and now has all the dating apps accept instead of dating it's blending. Which is kind of awesome by the way. I think he's not that far from working with Brick and Mortar stores that no one knows about.

 

[Brad H]

I may have missed something or read/heard it wrong.
But Per Jensen is working with C&D with those 4 new blends coming out.
I saw in a picture they weee in a round, non pot top Pringle can. Does C&D make anything else not in a Pringle can?

 

[Oddball]

I may have missed something or read/heard it wrong.
But Per Jensen is working with C&D with those 4 new blends coming out.
I saw in a picture they weee in a round, non pot top Pringle can. Does C&D make anything else not in a Pringle can?

HU Blends are packed by them I believe in those bigger 100g tins

EDIT: This is an assumption because the tins say blended in EU packed in US. Who else be packing in US?

 

[ofafeather]

I may have missed something or read/heard it wrong.
But Per Jensen is working with C&D with those 4 new blends coming out.
I saw in a picture they weee in a round, non pot top Pringle can. Does C&D make anything else not in a Pringle can?

Not typically but occasionally they jave done blends for others in vacuum sealed round tins. This was Per’s request for the series.

 

[Brad H]

Not typically but occasionally they jave done blends for others in vacuum sealed round tins. This was Per’s request for the series.

Thanks for clarification. I was confused by the pictures I saw of the releases.
I prefer the vacuum seal tins over the pringles pop top.

 

[isaac]

I like Per calling C&D’s usual tins “cat food tins”

 

[Terry Lennox]

I like that they come in flat tins. I'll be interested to see what the reviews are like.

 

[JimInks]

I like that they come in flat tins. I'll be interested to see what the reviews are like.

I reviewed them here: Jim's Per Jensen Legacy Reviews. :: Pipe Tobacco Reviews - https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/jims-per-jensen-legacy-reviews.110889/

 

[Sig]

Many of my favorite blends were done by Per Jensen while at MacBaren. Can't wait to see how things go.

 

[Pipes1863]

I'm somewhat disappointed that there is no "dark strong" Red Va/Dark Fired KY/Rustica type blend like he used to have. I could really use a blend like that in my rotation.

 

[Hutch Piper]

I'm somewhat disappointed that there is no "dark strong" Red Va/Dark Fired KY/Rustica type blend like he used to have. I could really use a blend like that in my rotation.

He’s coming out with more offerings so stay tuned.

 

[RL Bucktails]

He’s coming out with more offerings so stay tuned.

It would be wise to try and replicate some of those discontinued HH blends.

 

[ofafeather]

It would be wise to try and replicate some of those discontinued HH blends.

Hard to replicate because the process and tobacco would not be available. My guess is Per’s blending style will produce great blends whoever the processor is but they will be very different to what MacB produced. Even STG producing MacB blends has a different end product.

 

[Auxsender]

I’m curious to know people’s thoughts on these blends.
Who’s tried em?