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What Were Your Go-To Tobacco’s in 2025?
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Couldn't get enough of King's Watch, Port Guardian, Sunbear Navy Cask, and Cabbie's Mixture
Lane Limited BL/WB
Cornell & Diehl Bayou Morning
Luxury Navy & Bullseye Flake
Cornell & Diehl Bayou Morning
Luxury Navy & Bullseye Flake
Edisto, Interlude, Peterson Navy Rolls, Elizabethan and now Burley Flake 5 have made up my most smoked blends this year.
I had a surplus of open jars and made a direct effort to reduce that number which led to a lot of variety this year.
I had a surplus of open jars and made a direct effort to reduce that number which led to a lot of variety this year.
2020 Sansepolcro
2025 Sansepolcro
Father Dempsey's
PS 402 luxury twist
Kopps Year of the Dragon
Autum Evening
Prety much in that order, though I still have 3 tins of 2020 Sans. and eight 2025. I'm still watching and hoping for a 2026 drop absolutely hooked on that blend.
2025 Sansepolcro
Father Dempsey's
PS 402 luxury twist
Kopps Year of the Dragon
Autum Evening
Prety much in that order, though I still have 3 tins of 2020 Sans. and eight 2025. I'm still watching and hoping for a 2026 drop absolutely hooked on that blend.
I enjoyed variety. But my "base" was made up of:
C&D Pegasus
C&D Haunted Bookshop
GLP Cumberland
C&D Pegasus
C&D Haunted Bookshop
GLP Cumberland
HU Edward G
HU Directors Cut
HU Old Fredders
Reiners Long Golden Flake
Petes DNR
I need to break out the latakia. Probably Quiet Nights.
Sometimes I add some Janneman Flake to Ed G for a touch of red. Red makes everything better!
HU Directors Cut
HU Old Fredders
Reiners Long Golden Flake
Petes DNR
I need to break out the latakia. Probably Quiet Nights.
Sometimes I add some Janneman Flake to Ed G for a touch of red. Red makes everything better!
I smoked the following 4 blends a lot. I went through several tins of the Rattrays, a pint jar of LBF and two pint jars of the Virginia slices.
Black Virginia
Dark Fragrant
Virginia Slices
LBF
I opened several new tins to me to sample and jar. This wasn’t a huge pipe smoking year for me - a change in assignment at work wiped out most of the pipe time I had at work with less free time to enjoy a pipe and I went down to just a few bowls a week to some weeks 0 - fine by me, just added more time to how long my cellar will last
Black Virginia
Dark Fragrant
Virginia Slices
LBF
I opened several new tins to me to sample and jar. This wasn’t a huge pipe smoking year for me - a change in assignment at work wiped out most of the pipe time I had at work with less free time to enjoy a pipe and I went down to just a few bowls a week to some weeks 0 - fine by me, just added more time to how long my cellar will last
Hu Zulu
Heinrichs #15
Match Walnut
With a few other things thrown in here and there.
Heinrichs #15
Match Walnut
With a few other things thrown in here and there.
Yes, but the word is that STG has already wrecked it (no surprise there). I've got a pound and change, so I have no desire to confirm it for myself.
Top 5 in order:
Kendal No.7
Tashkent
Reserve du Patron
Pegasus
Ampersand Flake
I sampled a wide variety of blends in 2025, but these were my staples.
Kendal No.7
Tashkent
Reserve du Patron
Pegasus
Ampersand Flake
I sampled a wide variety of blends in 2025, but these were my staples.
Still on my variety kick, as I've a shelf full of new ones to try.
But I was very pleased to discover how much I enjoyed the HU offerings.
Of note, I may be one of those that have really gotten over my initial love of Latakia. It just doesn't do anything for me at the moment, and I'm wondering if that will be permanent. If so, I'll have loads of Latakia based blends to trade, sell, and gift.
But I was very pleased to discover how much I enjoyed the HU offerings.
Of note, I may be one of those that have really gotten over my initial love of Latakia. It just doesn't do anything for me at the moment, and I'm wondering if that will be permanent. If so, I'll have loads of Latakia based blends to trade, sell, and gift.
go to this year was:
GLP Telegraph Hill
Robert Lewis Tree Mixture
Wilke Wall Street
GLP Telegraph Hill
Robert Lewis Tree Mixture
Wilke Wall Street
Since I love perique so much and since I find drying and shredding my own tobacco so enjoyable, I buy perique, virginia red, and burley. I get all my tobacco whole leaf. Thats my go to 99% of the time. I have some Balkan mixture pre made and some whole leaf latakia, somewhere but that is more a twice a month sort of thing.
St Bruno every day, War Horse Green every other, Ten Russians, Irish Flake.
That's changed now, of course, since they quit making War Horse. And, well, St Bruno tastes like a dirty mop after the acquisition, so I'm done with it.
Any of you boys have better alternatives?
That's changed now, of course, since they quit making War Horse. And, well, St Bruno tastes like a dirty mop after the acquisition, so I'm done with it.
Any of you boys have better alternatives?
Sutfliff Sweet Virginia, same as the year before. Runner up was probably Stokkebye Peaches & Cream.
Bad news? In 2025? You don't say!
I did find two empty lids for Cabbie's in my bin, so it would have been in my top 10 this year. I found it a bit edgy fresh out of the tin and have some jarred to see how it ages.
Tashkent and Ampersand Flake are really fine blends.