Which no longer produced tobacco blend do you or will you miss the most?

[burleybreath]

I took a strong liking to Amphora Full Aroma a short time ago. It was nothing like the blend of years ago, which I remember being too perfumey. In other words, I liked the resurrected blend better. Much better. I still have five pouches left.

Of the oldies, there's the long lost Craven, and Balkan Sobranie Virginian No. 10. Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all, sayeth someone.

 

[spearheadbill]

SG Bracken Flake is one. But as someone else shared, the original versions of HU were my favorite smokes. Hans love of burley is unmatched. Dockworker, directors cut, nyala, makhuwa. Nashville county. Haymaker. …. Man those are exactly why I smoke pipes

 

[khiddy]

Ahh yes, Craven Mixture. One I never had but wish I'd gotten to try. Story is that it is the legendary "Arcadia Mixture" that J. M. Barrie wrote about in his paean to tobacco, My Lady Nicotine.

 

[falstaff]

Picayune

 

[doctorbob]

Plumcake and frog Morton

 

[spearheadbill]

Watch city’s American Cut Plug Mixture!! Im almost embarrassed to admit how much I love the stuff and kicking myself for not stocking up when I knew it was going away. It’s not a gourmet mixture maybe but like beans and toast it’s a staple of my pipe diet!

 

[prairiedruid]

Red War Horse Bar made by SToP not the crap that is made now

 

[Briarcutter]

Of the oldies, there's the long lost Craven,

That was a marvelous tobacco. I still have a few tins but it's hard to justify smoking them

 

[warren99]

Hard to pick just one so here goes: the original Balkan Sobranie, Bell’s Three Nuns, Dunhill Nightcap and My Mixture 965 (from the Murray era), GL Pease Raven’s Wing, the original Bengal Slices (non-Aromatic).

 

[krizzose]

McClelland Navy Cavendish. While I have a decent stock of it, I ration it like it’s a “special” blend, when I think of it as a regular rotation filler. I have a CC and 40th Anniversary stash as well, but I always treated those as special occasion bowls even before McClelland closed up, so I feel the loss of NC more.

Also, the demise of Sutliff generally, primarily because of the ripple effect it’s had on small blenders like WCC, KBV, Country Squire, etc.

PS: My fat fingers got ahead of me and I almost posted before I noticed what would have been a rather hilarious typo: “Country Squier”
He’s definitely not country.

 

[PaulRVA]

1. Brown & Williamson
Sir Walter Raleigh
2. McClelland
Frog Morton Frog on a Log
3. Imperial Tobacco
Capstan Blue

 

[Jacob74]

The only Syrian Latakia I ever had was in the one (1) tin of The Solent Mixture. It was aged, so maybe very different from what was intended when it was tinned, but it was delicious. I never tried the new stuff figuring that it would be very different, and therefore just stuck with the blends I knew would be relatively consistent.

 

[Briarcutter]

. Brown & Williamson
Sir Walter Raleigh

Wished I had a few tubs of that!

 

[LotusEater]

Joschi's Oriental Sunrise and Stonehenge Flake

Flanagan Flake is a decent substitute for Joschi’s but it doesn’t have any Samsun.

 

[WVOldFart]

Wished I had a few tubs of that!

Me too!

 

[Wet Dottle]

GLP Renaissance would be it, but I still have a few tins that I continue to smoke more or less regularly, therefore I don’t miss it. Of those I don’t have, Edgeworth Sliced and Mixture 79 (as it was in the 70s and 80s) come to mind.

 

[prairiedruid]

3 Oaks Syrian

 

[IrishBadger]

Joschi's Oriental Sunrise and Stonehenge Flake

Flanagan Flake is a decent substitute for Joschi’s but it doesn’t have any Samsun.

First I've heard of Joschi's but luvvv Stonehenge!

 

[Skyfall]

Red War Horse Bar made by SToP not the crap that is made now

Eh….. no crap is being made now

 

[Kingsley]

McC’s Holiday Spirit.
I had it only once. It was a tin from the last production year of the blend, and it was the best tobacco I’ve ever smoked.