What Were Your Go-To Tobacco’s in 2025?

[tatter]

PSLNF
Bob's Chocolate Flake
McC 2015
C&D Bijou
Watch City 558

 

[SpuddsBuckley]

Might as well weigh in here, while everyone's gettin' in on the fun...

• Squadron Leader
• Marlin Flake
• Royal Yacht

 

[okiematt]

Always Royal Yacht

 

[Contrarian_King]

Three Nuns
Carter Hall

Gonna try and find a Virginia or Vaper and then Ill have my permanent 3, hopefully

 

[MisterBadger]

From the numbers of empty tins:

Peterson's Irish Flake
McConnell's Scottish Cake
Peterson's Irish Cask
HH Old Dark Fired

However, I buy a lot of tobacco loose and/or in twist form, so I'd have to include Gawith Hoggarth Brown Pigtail and Black Irish Twist, Tabac Manil Semois La Volute...

...and I was gifted a tin of C&D Special House Reserve which didn't last long. Given the opportunity, I'd have smoked a great deal more of that.

 

[huntertrw]

What Were Your Go-To Tobacco’s in 2025?​

Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed (the Lane Limited product manufactured under license from The House of Edgeworth).

Pegasus.

Velvet.

Vintage Carter Hall.

My approximation of Shelby Foote's "Shiloh" mixture: Two-thirds Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend and one-third Granger.

St. Bruno Ready-Rubbed.

 

[WerewolfOfLondon]

F&T CVP
MacB Virginia Flake
Germains RDF
Solani ABF

Finally got to try two McC blends this year, Boston 1776, and Tudor Castle. Both excellent, but Boston the clear winner, and one of the best I've ever had the pleasure to smoke.

 

[rsshreck32]

C&D Exclusive is always #1. I'd add this year's rendition of Sansepolcro (got 7 tins), C&D Burley Flake #2, G&H Coniston Cut Plug, and C&D Haunted Bookshop Cake.

 

[judcole]

Sutliff Virginia Slices (discontinued, alas)
Amphora Virginia (discontinued, alas)
Mac Baren Mixture (Altered by STG, from what I hear)

 

[SkippyJohn]

Although I have a few small jars with some other blends, I'm a man of simple tastes (and a somewhat cheap). My three usual -
1. Lane 1-Q
2. Carter Hall
3. C&D Nutty Irishman

 

[litup]

From the numbers of empty tins:

Peterson's Irish Flake
McConnell's Scottish Cake
Peterson's Irish Cask
HH Old Dark Fired

This is surprisingly close to what I was going to answer:

Irish Flake
McConnel's Scottish Flake
HH Old Dark Fired
But if no Irish Cask for me. I'm swapping in GL Pease Navigator.

 

[tirefire]

1. Old Gowrie
2. Park Square
3. Deluxe Navy Rolls (my Sunday smoke)

 

[rstloup]

Peterson Elizabethan
Esoterica Dorchester
Gawith Best Brown!

 

[wyfbane]

Entering year 10 of trying to smoke all the jam jars of samples I have accrued over the years. But staple smokes this year are

SPC Plum Pudding
SWR Aro
4th Gen 1855
H&H Frenchy's Sunza Bitches (RIP)
H&H LJ Heart Burley (RIP)

 

[Michigan_Bill]

My big three of this year—-
Orlik Mellow Mixture
MacBaren Mixture Modern
PS Nougat

(The first two are discontinued. Good thing I stocked up)

 

[Arkansas Paul]

The 2 I smoked the most of without a doubt is Rattray's Hal o the Wynd and Peterson Irish Flake.
They're very different. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a nice sweet Virginia, and other times a strong, bold Kentucky blend.

 

[Auxsender]

Watch City Bada Bing
Per Jensen Blending Burley
C&D Atalaya
Warped Kings Stride
Wessex Curly Block

Very recently I found Watch City None Of Your Business and Erik Stokkebye Evening Flake. Had I found them earlier in the year, they would have made the list.

 

[Questionable Source]

H&H Frenchy's Sunza Bitches (RIP)

https://www.pipesandcigars.com/product/hearth-and-home-signature-frenchys-sunzabitches/HSQ-TP.html

 

[wyfbane]

https://www.pipesandcigars.com/product/hearth-and-home-signature-frenchys-sunzabitches/HSQ-TP.html

As great as this news is, I didn't love it enough to pay $58/lb. I smoked what I had and made peace with it's inevitable (if not current) demise. LoL

 

[The Hermit]

Every year I keep the lids from each tin and the label from every can I empty in a tupperware container just to see what I smoked most often during the year. I was a bit surprised to find these were my top blends this year. What were yours?

1. Drucquer & Sons Loch Ness: the quality of the tobacco’s GL Pease sourced for this series made them enjoyable fresh out of the can without any aging.

2. Palmetto Balkan by C&D: when this limited series came out in March 2024 I bought six of the 8 ounce cans. At the one year mark in the spring of this year, I gave it a go. Let’s just say that only 3 cans are left.

3. Drucquer & Sons Casbah. This Balkan crumble cake became a mainstay in my rotation.

4. HU Makuwa: a Burley, Virginia and Perique blend. An all day smoke for me if the urge struck.

5. HU English Breakfast. Typically my first bowl of the day.Virginia & Latakia blend, a step up from the typical English.

Honorable Mention: Captain Earle’s Ten Russians. I‘m typically a Perique forward guy, but this Latakia blend really struck a note with me.

I also dabbled in a lot of different Burley blends, but no single one was much ahead of the others.

What were your favorites this year?

I like your choices. I have a good number of Palmetto Balkan 8oz tins in the cellar and it is an excellent blend. I do thoroughly enjoy D&S Casbah as well, and similarly Loch Ness when I'm feeling a wee bit Scottish. I find I prefer Perique in condimental amounts (Loch Ness and Quiet Nights being my favorites). As for Captain Earle's, I keep Stimulus Package and Diamonhead in the rotation, preferring the former a bit more. Love its pungent earth and compost notes with the Oriental spice.