What is your Favorite Christmas Blend?
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I really like Boswell's Christmas Cookie too. A Corn Cob Pipe and a Button Nose by C&D is pretty good. I get a chocolate note from that one. Golden Days of Yore is a bit different from anything else that I smoke, but that's good for a change of pace from the sugary aromatic genre.
I think this will be the year I finally crack on of my McClellands Christmas Cheer tins, I think 2014 is the oldest I have. Other then that, I have never bothered much with Christmas blends. I do hit the Bob's Chocolate Flake very hard this time of year, so maybe that counts.
See a number of Cornell normal blends full of cocoa and chocolate and dark rum
Low country Christmas was popular. 5000 tins sold in under 2 days
Drucquer & Sons Merry Monk always seems very Christmas-y to me.
True but I'd hazard a guess to say the healthy majority... either way just trying to illustrate (at least in my experience) the process seems to make the "controllability" of the lead night vs day...
Actually now that you mention it one that I noticed was far more mild at least, if not also more controllable) was Sutliff ZBC which is actually DFK cavendish, not burley.
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Generally they will use those as descriptions of flavor or even toppings, yes. But with this it was specifically how they supported the Pecan (which was the primarily noticeable flavor and is something you don't see in almost any blends today) to make an absurdly rich and smooth special flavor.
I (again unfortunately) never knew til the Sutliff-pocalypse, but they actually made a bulk Pecan cavendish I was lucky enough to snag at least a single pound of in the last days of Rome burning lmao. I haven't even actually tried it yet but cut-wise it seems to be a dead ringer for the pieces I remember being in H. Spirit... so I'm pretty hopeful.
As the holidays get closer this year if I actually get some free time as I jar the remainder of my bulk stash I'll get to open it up and play around with it/compare it to the miserly stash of Spirit I'm also lucky enough to have left and see if I can possibly recreate my own clone. I think/hope that if I'm able to combine it with the correct ratios of some bulk Rum & Maple(?) and Hot Cocoa Sutliff cav's along with an appropriate backbone of RR bright and broken flake red VA's I may just get close... and poss. be able to end up with a couple few pounds worth.
Whenever I get around to it I'm going to be sure to document and post here. Even though I know it may not help anyone *directly* (As most of those component tobaccos are now also discontinued)... but if my blind attempt can teach anyone anything about personal blending or (even more importantly) give them hope and an idea of what to look for in recreating versions of their lost favorites from mix-matching other current production blends... well.. then I'd be even doubly content with the venture.
I guess it’s a name association thing, Saint Nicholas seems a Merry Monk (Jolly old elf), but more importantly, I suppose, is the room note that has a slight baking roast and sweet potato pie vibe. The heavy smoke feels like walking into an oven warmed kitchen after being out in the cold. Likely, I fist smoked it around the holidays and that scent is now linked to those memories.
Some of the lane and sutliff blenders survive but I wasn't a lane or sutliff man.Generally they will use those as descriptions of flavor or even toppings, yes. But with this it was specifically how they supported the Pecan (which is something you don't see in almost any blends) to make an absurdly rich and smooth special flavor.
I (again unfortunately) never knew til the Sutliff-pocalypse, but they actually made a bulk Pecan cavendish I was lucky enough to snag at least a single pound of in the last days of Rome burning lmao
Hopefully as the holidays approach this year if I actually get some free time as I jar the remainder of my bulk stash I'll get to open it up and play around with it/compare it to the miserly stash of Spirit I'm also lucky enough to have left and see if I can possibly recreate my own clone. I think/hope that if I'm able to combine it with the correct ratios of some bulk Rum & Maple(?) and Hot Cocoa Sutliff cav's along with an appropriate backbone of RR bright and broken flake red VA's I may just get close... and poss. be able to end up with a couple few pounds worth.
Whenever I get around to it I'm going to be sure to document and post here. Even though I know it may not help anyone *directly* (As most of those component tobaccos are now also discontinued)... but if my blind attempt can teach anyone anything about personal blending or (even more importantly) give them hope and an idea of what to look for in recreating versions of their lost favorites from mix-matching other current production blends... well.. then I'd be even doubly content with the venture.
To be honest they seem to have relied more from. Selling bulk leaf to people like perretti instead of individual retail sales.
While not marketed as Christmas or Holiday blends, I like Gawith Hoggarth Bob's Chocolate Flake and Rum Flake during the silly season. This November, I have been smoking a lot of Peretti Thanksgiving Day from 2020, and I fully expect to keep on smoking it into December lol.
I refuse to open my Christmas blends until after Thanksgiving. Ask me then.
My winter smoke of choice is 1792, whether it’s Xmas, the solstice, or whatever winter day is at hand.
For me it's Rattray's Exotic Passion (aka Exotic Orange), not specifically a Christmas blend, but full of aromas (expecially orange) that remind me of Christmas Eve
My favorite Christmas blend is McClelland Christmas Cheer. My favorite was the 2013 blend. I have a small amount of 2017 left that I'll be enjoying in the coming weeks. I'm currently smoking Rattray's Winter Edition (Merry Christmas) 2022, and it's pretty good. I really like Rattray's Exotic Passion, and I think it's great around this time of year.
For some reason I really enjoy my aromatics this time of year. I usually enjoy Trout Stream and Hobbits Weed (match) and a few others over the holidays and winter months.
For some reason I really enjoy my aromatics this time of year. I usually enjoy Trout Stream and Hobbits Weed (match) and a few others over the holidays and winter months.
The funny part is that I hide this stuff from myself.
I put all my McClelland at the very end of this "tobacco cabinet", where I can NOT see it.
The most unaccessible and unfortunately not so abundant stuff lies there at the corner so as to not tempt me too much...
I know it's there but it requires some work to get to it.
So Christmas is a good opportunity to bring out the goods, like getting that old Xmas decoration from the garage.
I put all my McClelland at the very end of this "tobacco cabinet", where I can NOT see it.
The most unaccessible and unfortunately not so abundant stuff lies there at the corner so as to not tempt me too much...
I know it's there but it requires some work to get to it.
So Christmas is a good opportunity to bring out the goods, like getting that old Xmas decoration from the garage.