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BayouGhost

Starting to Get Obsessed
Apr 10, 2024
110
941
Louisiana
I assume the island is in the tropics. HH Pure Virginia. I could take the unlimited supply of this that I was gifted daily from the skies and smoke it pure, also ferment coconut rum and make a navy blend out of it and then also char some palm fronds and driftwood to create my own poor man's dark fired as well as jamming a bunch into a hollowed-out log to ferment as island perique. If these activities are disallowed, I would take Old Gowrie and call it a day.
 

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Lifer
Jul 17, 2022
1,061
5,557
Nashville
The ones that are hardest to get ahold of are the best ones. I wish it was not that way, but it is.
Hard disagree.
Some hard-to-get blends are amazing for sure but some just taste like middle of the road pipe tobacco.

There are greatest-of-all-time style blends being made as I type this that are relatively inexpensive, plentiful, and nothing less than phenomenal.
 

sallow

Lifer
Jun 30, 2013
1,566
4,398
All time (no longer available) = Butera Kingfisher

Readily available = Orlik Golden Sliced (with Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake a close second).
 
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Cigar36

Lurker
Jul 29, 2024
3
6
My favorite is Early Morning Pipe. When I heard the rumor that Dunhill was leaving the tobacco business I started buying all the EMP that I could find. I have a good supply of 2005-2007 tins. The newer ones are not bad, but don’t have the age on them. I have smoked some from 2013 and they are good.
 

thebriarbear

Lurker
Aug 15, 2024
36
660
New York City
I’ve got to say, these kinds of threads get me questioning myself a little.

I’m a Virginia guy, and 95% of my smokes are straight Virginia flakes, so as you’d suspect someone like me to say: FVF, Capstan, anything McClelland…BUT…

When I look at my jars and the ones I refill constantly, it’s gotta be Sutliff 507C without a doubt. A no-nonsense, easy smoking bulk that won’t knock your socks off, but just seems to be reached for more often than any other. Go figure.
 
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gord

Can't Leave
OK, I recently made a post that was entitled Your Own "Worst" Tobacco and lots of people replied, and I got some great answers.
Now I am interested in your best tobacco! If you found out that you were going to be stranded on a desert island for 10 years and could take an endless supply of only one tobacco what would you take?
Mine would probably be a Boswell's Military Force.
Well, tastes shift and right now, I'm into Orientals. But your question begs not a shifting phase, but one tobacco you could smoke, day in and day out, on a desert island. Yeah, it's not my favorite or latest fling, but the most stable, reliable and smokable tobacco I've experienced to this point in my life. Never regretted lighting up a pipeful.

Smokers' Pride Whiskey Tobacco

'Nuff said
 
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Grimlineman

Might Stick Around
Nov 14, 2023
59
112
Georgia
Captain black and stokkebye luxury navy flake. Match 20 supposed to be like 965 although I never had it is really growing on me as a close 3rd. And an honorable mention for Duke Albert if I’m feeling a no nonsense burley for that day.
 

gord

Can't Leave
Hmmmm . . . . some philosphy here. I rethought my reply, and remembered a couple of posts above where the posters said, that if they could only smoke one tobacco, they'd give up the pipe.

I translated those answers to my own professional field: "Gord, if you could only listen to one piece of music, or play one piece of music, what would it be?" Oh, dung.

I'm afraid I agree with the two posts. I'd sell my violin and stop playing and listening. Our natural human fondness is for variety in any endeavor except basic survival. Music, and smoking a pipe I think, are similar in this truth They are pleasures. My own answer above, which is basically a plain codger blend, would suffice if the mere relaxation involved was paramount. As it is not like food, necessary for survival, I'd cease and desist.

These guys get the kewpie doll.

"Bravo!"
 
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Butter Side Down

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jun 2, 2023
296
3,242
Chicago
Some great ones have already been mentioned. Since I like variety, I'm glad I don't have to pick just one, but if I had to... I could be entirely satisfied smoking either Skiff Mixture, Old Dark Fired, or Rattray 40 Virginia all day every day.