Why does pipe tobacco gain value with time and not coffee or tea?

[Briarcutter]

We need some good coffee flavored pipe tobacco. Had some good coffee snuff in the past but never pipe tobacco

 

[Mike N]

Here are two price graphs I found for coffee versus tobacco prices over time:

 

[greeneyes]

Who said tea doesn't appreciate with age?

It's an experiment that can be separated from a high degree of subjectivity. If you try a tobacco sealed 20 years ago today and the same tobacco manufactured a few months ago, you can't tell if the difference in flavor is due to the distance between the two or because the raw materials are not the same today as yesterday. If you tried a tobacco 20 years ago and did a detailed tasting, and you do the same tasting again today, you won't know if the difference is due to the tobacco itself or your ability to taste it.

This is why I always purchase a few tins from the future... to compare to the currently produced tins. Let me tell you, the future sucks.

 

[Mez]

If you like strong latakia blends some of the Chinese Lap Song Such are great. Anything from Yunnan is my cup of tea, especially Golden Yunnan which is very velvety. Oolongs are an extremely diverse style of teas (basically anything that's not green or black but in between, sometimes barely so i.e. practically green or practically black. Have had some of that style that taste lightly floral with a very sweet honey taste or that taste very earthy and minerally. Iron Goddess of Mercy and Gunpowder are amazingly good teas and great starter teas because they're not as temperamental as other teas are to preparations.
Curious which Chinese teas you've tried.

I've tried all of them except what I believe they call "yellow" tea. I started with a sampler box from Jesses tea house then ordered some from white2tea and a company I think was called "Yunan Source" or something like that.

 

[greeneyes]

I've tried all of them except what I believe they call "yellow" tea. I started with a sampler box from Jesses tea house then ordered some from white2tea and a company I think was called "Yunan Source" or something like that.

I have a place up the road called Tea Source. Apparently at one point it was voted #1 internet tea vendor. I digress. It's like a tea museum. I've spent around $300 - $400 there on various teas.

We were at a Christmas party years ago with one of my former bosses. I was telling him about a great burger place that opened up down the street. He gave me a condescending look and said "a burger is just a burger." With some people it's "pearls before swine."

 

[Mez]

I have a place up the road called Tea Source. Apparently at one point it was voted #1 internet tea vendor. I digress. It's like a tea museum. I've spent around $300 - $400 there on various teas.

We were at a Christmas party years ago with one of my former bosses. I was telling him about a great burger place that opened up down the street. He gave me a condescending look and said "a burger is just a burger." With some people it's "pearls before swine."

I'm a little confused. Are you saying these are bad places to buy tea?

 

[greeneyes]

I'm a little confused. Are you saying these are bad places to buy tea?

The opposite. Great places. They're like old time tobacconist with hundreds of jars of things to try. But it's tea.

 

[anotherbob]

I've tried all of them except what I believe they call "yellow" tea. I started with a sampler box from Jesses tea house then ordered some from white2tea and a company I think was called "Yunan Source" or something like that.

I wish I could remember where I was ordering mine from. Mostly got a lot of my tea from the local Asian markets, which is the best bang for the buck.