Your Own "Best" Tobacco

[Friendly Piper]

Old Joe Krantz, like @ChessNut !

 

[BayouGhost]

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.

 

[Auxsender]

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.

 

[litup]

HH Old Dark Fired ready rubbed. It's a real meat and potatoes kind of blend. Not the best tasting blend ever but it's always satisfying to smoke, easy to light and smoke, and has enough nicotine to keep me happy.

 

[Michigan_Bill]

Orlik Mellow Mixture. Good stuff.

 

[sallow]

All time (no longer available) = Butera Kingfisher

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

 

[Cigar36]

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.

 

[Cigar36]

C&D From Beyond, but if I had to settle for Country Squire Shepherds Pie I’d be perfectly content either way.

Very much like Shepheards Pie. Smoke it after stating the day with Early Morning Pipe.

 

[JimRoseLV]

Marlin Flake

 

[thebriarbear]

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.

 

[gord]

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

 

[Chris T]

If I had to choose today, Miskatonic Mixture. It's complex enough I wouldn't get bored with it.

 

[n_irwin]

WCC Quint’s Own for me.

 

[Grimlineman]

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.

 

[Sgetz]

It has to be ennerdale flake. It's a wonderful mixture of aromatic and real man's baccy

 

[gord]

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!"

 

[Danish Estates]

Boswell's Northwoods is my desert island blend. My favorite pipe tobacco when I first started was McClelland's Frog Morton's Cellar. This is the only thing I have found that is close to it. It is a cool, smoky, and tasty smoke!

 

[Butter Side Down]

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.

 

[MrTallbutBuxomley]

Peterson Deluxe Navy rolls

 

[steelarts]

I’m finding myself being more and more drawn towards straight forward Virginia/Burley/Kentucky blends that haven’t been heavily cased or topped. The blends that “do it” for me are G&H Dark Flake, SG’s Brown No.4 Twist and Revor Plug smoked in my Merchant Service ‘Standard’. The only aro that I will keep in my rotation is Wilson’s ‘Contemplation’ and the English blend that I love is Old Dublin. If I were stranded on a desert island with these five blends I’d be a very happy man . If I could only have one then it would be Revor Plug.