What Tobaccos Hit You from Out of Left Field?

[Donb1972]

Definitely C & D's Visions of Celephais. It has a wine must-y smell, and an incense-y, grape-y, flavour. And just a touch of some old-fashioned perfume, like your over 70 year old Grandmother might have worn(but that's a good thing! It works!).

Upon opening my first can, I wasn't sure I'd like it...it was almost as if I had snorted grape Kool-Aid powder. But I lit up a bowl, and I was amazed and surprised, and it has become my every day smoke.

 

[username]

Gawith black twist taught me what a nic hit can be. Why is the room spinning. I was a total newbie and had been smoking on a empty stomach.

 

[condorlover1]

It is not made anymore but something called Hogs Head. It was a RYO shag but was 'pipe-able' but if pushed to hard tasted like a urinal cake and had one hell of a nicotine punch. The same with Black Shag from G Smith & Sons - that stuff would punch a hole in your brain.

 

[karam]

Virginias. Cut Blended Plug and Huber Golden Flake. I had a tin of Capstan blue that tasted of hot air for me, so kinda thought straight Virginias were not for me, but these two converted me.

 

[musicman]

There have been a few tobaccos over the years that have opened up new flavor profiles to me, and made me dive down some deep rabbit holes into specific types of blends. A couple of note:
Match Victoria, the blend that made me "get" VaPers. Now I smoke Va based blends 80 percent of the time.
Oriental Silk. which opened my eyes to non-Latakia oriental blends.
Bosun Cut Plug, which made me understand the hype (both positive and negative) about Lakeland blends.

I don't smoke any of these three blends often anymore, but they were definitely a gateway to many of my favorites.

 

[Foxtrot Charlie]

I've had blissful bowls of 20 year old Haddo's and 15 year old Stonehaven and Marlin Flake that still make me salivate, but loading my bowl, I knew they were going to be great. My mind was blown the first bowl of fresh GH Dark Plug. It hadn't even turned one, so I wasn't prepared to be truly wowed. Wowed, I was. It was great! Still is. Ticks all the boxes for me and I've never had a "mehh" smoke of the stuff yet.