What is your Favorite Christmas Blend?
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I do like that one when I am in the heavy aro mood. The room note is actually my favorite part. I get so many smiles from random strangers with that one.
Found anything similar to it? I don’t dabble in aros much but I’d like to find something always available that is similar.
I have had this tin open for over a year and only smoked it maybe 8 times.
I took this recent C&D sale to get a couple of aros to try them out.
I've broken out a tin ot McClelland Holiday Spirit from 2013, and it's just a delightful blend. I'm also partial to Sutliff 2020 Cringle Flake and McClelland Christmas Cheer. I'll probably open a tin of the 2017 vintage.
I've recently acquired 2, the oldest is 2011, other is 2017.
I've never had this but am working up the nerve to go for it. It seems like such a thing, I keep hesitating.
I don't know why, with tomorrow never guaranteed, and all that...
This thread is making me want to open a few Christmas tins…..
As of now I have settled on C&D CRF to open for Christmas.
As of now I have settled on C&D CRF to open for Christmas.
Nothing I've tried quite like it. It's amazing how much it tastes like Cocoa. And how much it smells like Cocoa.
I don't think it's in the same arena but as far as C.D. aromatics. I really love Founding Fathers. It's pomegranate. It's oddly half and half. Like as aromatic as it's tobacco forward. The tobacco is a cigar like burly. A kind of mild cigarish with a nice pom taste. Again not the same thing at all but still like it as an aromatic for someone who isn't super into aromatics.
The Cringle Flakes are quite enjoyable. I popped a 2020 tin this year. Zesty.
Sadly Cringle is now OOP, like Christmas Cheer, my other favorite Christmas blend.
Sadly Cringle is now OOP, like Christmas Cheer, my other favorite Christmas blend.
Now that Thanksgiving is over and my wife's new 9ft inflatable apatosaurus with Santa clinging on back for dear life is properly displayed-
I'm with Brad and Bob: Corn Cob Pipe. Smells and tastes like a good mug of dark hot chocolate. If I remember right its first release was a cube cut. I would have liked to try that one, I only have the most recent.
I'm with Brad and Bob: Corn Cob Pipe. Smells and tastes like a good mug of dark hot chocolate. If I remember right its first release was a cube cut. I would have liked to try that one, I only have the most recent.
I've tried Saint Espresso and We Three Kings. Like them both, I'd say Saint Espresso is my favorite to far.
Corn Cob Pipe & a Button Nose - but I've only had the cube cut version and was disappointed to see it go completely ribbon cut.
Also C&D Canal Boat - cube cut burley, black cav, and Latakia. Topped with something that makes it taste like toasted marshmallows.
Also C&D Canal Boat - cube cut burley, black cav, and Latakia. Topped with something that makes it taste like toasted marshmallows.
I haven't tried many Christmas-specific blends, but of the ones I have, I kind of have to give it to this year's C&D We Three Kings.
Many I have tried I wouldn't even say are necessarily all that evocative of Christmas or even winter in general. The Cringle Flake i have tried was just a va/or with perique for example, and while not bad, didn't exactly say "wintertime", nothing about it made it more wintery than any other va/or or va/or with perique, it wasn't even "warming" or all that "plummy", I never understood why it was a Christmas blend to be honest, like what about it made it Christmas other than just being released at Christmas time.
Many I have tried I wouldn't even say are necessarily all that evocative of Christmas or even winter in general. The Cringle Flake i have tried was just a va/or with perique for example, and while not bad, didn't exactly say "wintertime", nothing about it made it more wintery than any other va/or or va/or with perique, it wasn't even "warming" or all that "plummy", I never understood why it was a Christmas blend to be honest, like what about it made it Christmas other than just being released at Christmas time.
Now that the question has been asked, I realize I have none. Weird, that...I`ll have to remedy the situation. I guess I could open one of my Davidoff Green, Blue or Red for Christmas.
In order of preference:
Cringle Flake
TCS - Old Toby
GL Pease - autumn evening
C&D - Corn cob pipe
Cringle Flake
TCS - Old Toby
GL Pease - autumn evening
C&D - Corn cob pipe