Virginia Flake Hoarders: This Is It!
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I do. I like to keep lots of all kinds of good basic tobaccos on hand. These are the building blocks of a thousand other blends! Here is a picture with some 400 at the bottom. I know, kinda hard to see in these small pictures. But you can never have too much virginia on hand and I feel variety is the spice of life. :mrgreen:
To me the Newminster Navy Flake is way sweeter. It has a heavier topping, honey or whatever. Cosmic put me on to that one and I enjoy it. The Sutliff I need to let age some more. I didn't enjoy it as much but I tend to gravitate towards the sweeter Virginias, and I've only had it once
Another view of tobacco economics: if people buy a ton of this stuff, the blend will be more likely to endure... if we are really canny, we will all buy at this price, then hoard through the price rise, and wait it out until it drops again, then replenish those caches, signaling that this is the appropriate market price to the manufacturer.
Not bad for the price but I've never tried any that wasn't fresh and mostly use it in blending though decent on it's own, not sweet, a few years would do it good. Newminster Superior Navy Flake is great and only gets better, the Slices too. Newminster Navy and Orlik Golden tie for first in VA, if I want something light it's Orlik, or for something even lighter that's like pouring honey in your mouth it's Newminster.
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