A mix of C&D Virginia broken flake with Sutliff stoved Virginia in a little devil acorn.
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Scotty's Trout Stream in a bent MM General 
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm almost half way through this bowl of year 2015 Strang in a 2003 smooth light brown medium bend straight grain Ardor Venere Extra signed by Dorelio Rovera Dublin and a black acrylic saddle stem. El Savador Dali, neat, is my drink.
Tashkent in a blasted half bent Ceppo Dublin.
I guess my wife had never seen me prepare a plug and I've only done this a few hundred times, she was perplexed and I was a bit tickled by it. Wessex Gold Block heading into a Nording Cut Smooth Bent Dublin.
An old Stanwell Majestic, filled with Wilke 111, a lagunitas stereohopic...great tobacco taste and a mellow buzz 
Today was Tilbury, which I very much liked. Yesterday was Dunbar, which I don't thinking I'm crazy for.
A bowl of Mac Baren Mixture Modern in my Missouri Meerschaum Diplomat bent apple with churchwarden forever stem.
The London Press in my Castello saddle dublin.
Samuel Gawith 1792 Flake in a Falcon with Meerschaum Bowl
SPC Plum Pudding in a Canadian era Brigham
What don't you like about it? Perhaps it needs a little dry time if you haven't given it any?
SG Cabbies Mixture in a Altinay translucent meer.
Last bowl of the day. G.L. Pease Sammarra in one of my favorite cobs:
MM Country Gentleman with bent stem.
MM Country Gentleman with bent stem.
I did dry it fairly well. I could allow more time. My goto is Escudo for vaper right now. My pallette may not be all that refined, but I was left wanting a bit more ...body? The flavor was bright, toasty, and a bit sweet, but it felt thin, too light, too airy. Escudo I think is a richer for me. I'm not giving up, I have 4 oz of it. So I'll be working my through it ha!
After a long day at work I'm now relaxing poolside with some WCC Old Dominion in a volcano by carver Rafa Salinas and a glass of A de Fussigny VSOP Grande Champagne Cognac:
Now smoking year 2021 Strang in a late 50s, early 60s Comoy’s straight smooth dark brown Deluxe 20 billiard with a silver cap military mount and a black vulcanite tapered stem. Working on comparing this with the vaunted earlier version.
Peterson Nightcap in a Ser Jacopo L2 bent paneled Dublin.
I see your problem. You want an earthier, deeper, spicier flavor than you can get from Dunbar, which doesn't have nearly as much darker Virginia or perique. Dorchester, which has more perique than Dunbar, doesn't have the Virginias you prefer either. If you have any dark Va. and perique handy, you could mix in a little of each, and see if that gives you a better smoking experience.
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