Stokkebye Luxury Vs. Escudo Navy De Luxe

[peckinpahhombre]

I’m in the like em both camp but if I had to pick one, I’d pick Escudo. It’s the VaPer I cut my teeth on and I still smoke it frequently.

This is where I am. I enjoy them both and have cellared both in large quantities, but prefer Escudo, especially young. I will say my LBF is all in the 5-6 year of aging range and it has transformed into an absolute delight.
Davidoff Flake Medallions are very similar, if not the same, as LBF. I do find the Davidoff provides a better fresh smoke than LBF however, likely do to tin aging, and the Davidoff stuff may be a higher quality cut of tobacco as all the coins seem more perfectly formed than bulk LBF.

 

[sablebrush52]

How long to age LBF for sublime ?

A minimum of 4 years.
I haven't bought any Escudo in years. The STG product is good, but not quite in the class of Petersen and since they switched to Stokkebye tobaccos a couple of years ago I don't see any reason to buy more Escudo.

 

[briarbuck]

Finished up with a re-hydration project bringing back 4 cans of Copes from the dead. I wasn't sure how they would come out, but I did good. Little dark spheres that smell like chocolate. Hard for me to tell how much they have lost over the years from drying out.
I have been fooling around with blending and pressing different concoctions into plugs. I may take 50 grams of the old Copes and stack them between 50 grams of some 2007 Escudo and press them together, just to see what happens.

 

[tnfan]

I like both but they're different. I load the bullseye flake without rubbing it out. So the Cavendish bullseye only kicks in occasionally. I like the sweetness of the bullseye flake. I think the escudo tastes more like s true VaPer and the Virginia content is of higher quality than the bullseye flake. Thankfully, I don't have to choose one over the other, I smoke both regularly.

Totally agree with Hoosierpipeguy. I definitely think that Escudo is a higher quality Virginia and is stronger than LBF. I have been smoking both for several years. IMHOyou can’t go wrong with either one.

 

[virginialover]

Since I'm not a heavy pipe smoker, I don't mind paying a bit more for Escudo which is of better quality, has more body and flavor for me. Also I enjoy it more for the fact that it doesn't have Cavendish.

 

[craiginthecorn]

Keep in mind that PS LNF has a rum topping.

Not true. Only the description on pipeandcigars.com makes that claim. Not tobaccoreviews nor any other retailer. I can't taste it. There is another whole thread on that topic

 

[jonas]

I prefer PS LBF. Virginia’s are brighter, sweeter and the perique is sharper, which I like. Price has nothing to do with it but it’s a plus.
These are my opinions on fresh samples. Haven’t had any of either aged.

 

[npod]

I love them all. But I cut my teeth on Davidoff Flake Medallions and that will always be the original gangster for me.

 

[newbroom]

The 'observation' I've made in this and many other similar threads is that we revert to our first impressions as a baseline.

Typically, we remember the good first impressions, perhaps more fondly than their reality and it's that originality that becomes our ghost.

That opens the door to 'limitation by expectation'.