Quality of Sutliff Tobacco
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Some of my always have some on hand and opened just in case are:
After Hours Flake, Black Frigate, Chenet's Cake, Exhausted Rooster, Five O'Clock Shadow, Haunted Bookshop, Kajun Kake, Manhatten Afternoon, Oak Alley, Old Joe Krantz, Opening Night, Star of the East, Sunday Picnic and Virginia Flake.
After Hours Flake, Black Frigate, Chenet's Cake, Exhausted Rooster, Five O'Clock Shadow, Haunted Bookshop, Kajun Kake, Manhatten Afternoon, Oak Alley, Old Joe Krantz, Opening Night, Star of the East, Sunday Picnic and Virginia Flake.
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I primarily smoke the classic burley blends but once or twice a year I'll order in a few ounces of one or two Sutliff burleys I like and some Virginia Slices for a change of pace. I find no quality issues with the Sutliff tobaccos I've tried and enjoyed thus far.
Nothing wrong with the quality of Sutliff's leaf or their blends (or Lane for that matter). As Sablebrush said, they're perfectly capable of making a prestige blend like Cringle Flake. Their focus seems to be mostly on middle-brow aros designed to please a general pipe-smoking audience. They don't make many blends that appeal to my tastebuds but they've been successful for a good long time. I assume they know what they're doing and who their target audience is.
Got about eight, maybe ten Sutliff aros, and two or three non-aros. Barbados Plantation is in my aromatic top 5, for sure. No complaints thus far.
Or, you may have very much enjoyed their blends under other labels, not knowing that what you were smoking was a Sutliff product.
Currently enjoying Sutliff Medium English. Although I Don't typically smoke English blends, this one I enjoy.
I'd love to know all they blend for folks. As far as what they sell under their own name, Cringle Flake 2020 is something to be proud of. The Red Va Crumble Cake is decent - the 515 red va is good as well. Haven't had many others.
Pretty sure they produce the SPC blends as well as Watch City's pressed blends. The "flake" blends that are basically sliced crumble cakes... usually a giveaway that it was Sutliff produced.
Sutliff Medium English is a fantastic smoke. Do a blind test with this blend against a few of the "good" blends. It might surprise you.
Correct! Sutliff does make Watch City's flake tobaccos
Sutliff is fine. Tobacco snobbery looks better on cigar smokers. Pipe smokers should no better.
So throw out the McClelland, Gawith, and Esoterica? There would be no Castello or Dunhill pipes in the world you would have... mostly just corncobs and Sutliff.
I say there's room enough for Champaign as well as beer.
Sutliff is good quality tobacco. Some good quality tobaccos I don't really care for, but that doesn't take away from the good quality. I'm not really into their aromatics though. Not because of them, but because I'm not that much into aros.
Sutliff's English blends are pretty good if you want to go that route. And their matches, while maybe not as true to originals, are damn fine smokes based on their own merits. I've only had like 2 bowls of Virginia Slices, but I feel very good about the balance of the 8oz in jars in my cellar. And I'd have more of their Victorian (Elizabethian Match) in my cellar if I didn't keep smoking it all when I get it.
As far as "doing it right", if you're enjoying the journey you're doing it right. Touring the Sutliff catalog is a pretty solid plan. They do a very wide range of decent + blends. If nothing else, you'll be able to narrow down which rabbit holes you decide to go down.
Sutliff's English blends are pretty good if you want to go that route. And their matches, while maybe not as true to originals, are damn fine smokes based on their own merits. I've only had like 2 bowls of Virginia Slices, but I feel very good about the balance of the 8oz in jars in my cellar. And I'd have more of their Victorian (Elizabethian Match) in my cellar if I didn't keep smoking it all when I get it.
As far as "doing it right", if you're enjoying the journey you're doing it right. Touring the Sutliff catalog is a pretty solid plan. They do a very wide range of decent + blends. If nothing else, you'll be able to narrow down which rabbit holes you decide to go down.
Except that isn’t what I suggested. Other than the typo, I thought I was clear in my meaning. Would I be wrong to think you are a cigar smoker?
Virginia Slices, their Nightcap Match, and should we forget, their Frosty Mint, all are examples of quality tobacco.
558. One of the finest examples of tobacco for sale.
Unless you were saying that people who prefer anything fancier than Sutilff are snobs, then no, you're meaning wasn't clear.
I'm not a cigar smoker for what that's worth.
Sutliff Virginia Slices is a very good, all day sort of Virginia. Not fancy. just a good solid smoke.
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