Smoking Pipe 20th Anniversary Blend: XX Flake and XX Flake Dark

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SpookedPiper

Lifer
Sep 9, 2019
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I wonder where all this aged Perique is coming from. Mark Ryan had a barrel that had aged about 15 years, but that was completely by mistake, and that Decade Perique was sold out a year or more ago. I have a couple of tubs of it that Mark held back for me, and it's lovely stuff.
Do you smoke it straight up or is it used to mix or both?
 

sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings
Jun 15, 2013
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Do you smoke it straight up or is it used to mix or both?
I've smoked it straight just to get a sense of it, and it almost holds up on its own, but there's a disagreeable aftertaste. So I use it as a blending components with some stoved, matured red, touch of gold, touch of lemon VIrginias, and a bit of Burley to round it out.
The alchemy happens when the aged Perique is combined with other tobaccos. The fruitiness of the Decade Perique reminds me of the fruitiness of Perique in a 20 year old tin of Escudo,
 
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