Top 5 Blends To Cellar Deeply

[Elric]

Mordy18 recently posted a comment about finding a blend to cellar deeply. This got me thinking (always dangerous), what are your top 5 blends to cellar deeply now, from a smoking preference perspective? Currently mine would be something like this:

Newminster Superior Navy Flake
Presbyterian Mixture
Solani Aged Burley Flake / Wessex Burley Slices
C&D Blockade Runner
Lane BLWB

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

SG - FVF
C&D Bayou Morning
SG - St James Flake
Sutliff 515-rc1
C&D Yorktown

My $0.02 anyway

 

[originalnutcracker]

My totes are full of:

GLP Gaslight
Samuel Gawith FVF
Samuel Gawith St James Flake
McC Christmas cheer (yeah, right)
Dunhill 965

 

[Magpiety]

Interesting, I would have to focus on blends that I doubt will 1) clear the deeming regs on their own merits, and 2) their manufacturers won't want to pay the fee and go through the process to have them stay on the market. Exceptions: Blends with limited supply in the US.

1. Quiet Nights
2. Blairgowrie
3. Mac Baren HH Burley Flake
4. Gawith Best Brown Flake
5. Gawith St. James Flake

This is if I was starting over. My current cellar is plenty deep for me, but mostly with blends that will facially clear the deeming regs. I just buy heavy when there's a sale going on.

 

[beezer]

This got me thinking (always dangerous), what are your top 5 blends to cellar deeply now, from a smoking preference perspective?

I don't have a Top 5 blends to cellar deeply, but I've been on a G.L. Pease run to add as much variety as I can across the different genres that are available. My second blender to go deep on is MacBaren, specifically the 1lb boxes from the HH lineup.

 

[shanez]

For me personally and in no particular order:

1. SG St James Flake
2. GH&C Bob's Chocolate Flake
3. GH&C Scotch Flake
4. Rattray's Exotic Passion
5. Esoterica Penzance (or Arango Balkan Supreme)

There's a few other blends that I hate to leave off this list but definitely would include in a top 10 list or substitute for any of the above based on availability.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

These are five blends I have more than 10 lbs of.

F&T CVP
SG FVF and BBF
Astleys 44
Orlik GS

 

[briarbuck]

> 5 lbs

FVF + SJF
Dunbar
Solani Silver
PS Navy flake
Ratray's HOTW + Marlin +OG
Capstan Blue

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Ones I have stocked pretty well:
Arango Balkan Supreme
C&D Gentleman Caller
C&D Billy Budd
C&D Habana Daydream
C&D Black Frigate
C&D Pirate Kake
D&R Rimboche SJ
D&R Picayune
Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake
Planta MMXII Ripe Marula Fruit
Sutliff Match Victorian
Sutliff BS759 Match
Sutliff 515 RC1

Ones that I intend to start stacking deep:
GLP Haddo’s Delight
GLP Key Largo
GLP Spark Plug
F&K Lancer Slices
C&D Winchester
MacBaren HH Old Dark Fired Ready Rubbed
St Bruno Ready Rubbed

Ones I’d like to stack up, but availability sucks:
SG Kendal Plug
SG Brown No 4 Rope
GH&Co Coniston Cut Plug
GH&Co Sweet Coconut Twist

 

[dochowl]

SG FVF
SG SJF
Cabbie's Mix
50/50 blend Sutliff 515RC1 + 507S
SG BBF

 

[Country Bladesmith]

what are your top 5 blends to cellar deeply now,

Ones I have stocked pretty well:
Arango Balkan Supreme
C&D Gentleman Caller
C&D Billy Budd
C&D Habana Daydream
C&D Black Frigate
C&D Pirate Kake
D&R Rimboche SJ
D&R Picayune
Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake
Planta MMXII Ripe Marula Fruit
Sutliff Match Victorian
Sutliff BS759 Match
Sutliff 515 RC1

Ones that I intend to start stacking deep:
GLP Haddo’s Delight
GLP Key Largo
GLP Spark Plug
F&K Lancer Slices
C&D Winchester
MacBaren HH Old Dark Fired Ready Rubbed
St Bruno Ready Rubbed

Ones I’d like to stack up, but availability sucks:
SG Kendal Plug
SG Brown No 4 Rope
GH&Co Coniston Cut Plug
GH&Co Sweet Coconut Twist

?
I guess I can’t read! I just saw where you said “5.” Whoops.

 

[kcghost]

Six Pence
Stonehenge
Mad Fiddler
Escudo
1792

 

[tschiraldi]

1.F&T Vintage
2. F&T Cut Blended Plug
3. Reiner's Long Golden Flake
4. Esoterica Stonehaven
5. PS Luxury Twist Flake.

 

[artvandelay007]

1. Synjeco Bad Nun
2. SG Lakeland Dark
3. G&H Dark Flake/Plug
4. SG 1792
5. HH Bold Kentucky

 

[prairiedruid]

PS LNF
PS LBF
Black Frigate
PS Cube Cut
El Nino

 

[mso489]

Categories not blends, your favorite of each: All Virginia leaf, Virginia Perique; English with Virginia; Balkan; Virginia burley blend, non- or aromatic.

 

[tmcg81]

I'm working on cellaring in general. As of right now, the blends I'm getting deeper on are:

GLP Westminster
C & D Star of the East Flake
Mac Baren Navy Flake
Solani Aged Burley Flake
KBV Burley Morning Pipe
PS LNF
Kramers Cary Grant

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

It is retail prices that prohibit us here in EU and those folks in Canada and AU to cellar deep..

 

[Ahi Ka]

It is retail prices that prohibit us here in EU and those folks in Canada and AU to cellar deep..

Yep going forward my cellaring approach will be:

1) homegrown
2) anything that contains tobacco
3) anything that maybe contains tobacco

 

[olkofri]

Sillem's Schwarz & Vauen's Auenland The Shire. But I only have a jar of each. I don't really have any favourites.