Tobaccos in Review

 According to Smoking Pipes I have moved up to a Silver Tobaaco Meister.  I've decided this is a good time to review what I have found to be my favorite pipe tobaccos.  And perhaps if I had a thousand dollar Dunhill pipe, my thinking might be a little different, but still a pipe is only as good as what goes in it.  So, I was thinking it's time for a solid tobacco review and go over what I've learned from some 50 years of smoking a pipe.

I'll begin with my all-time favorite that is probably the most expensive pipe tobacco.  If I had one tobacco to smoke it would be Seattle Club Plum Pudding Special Reserve.  But of all the tobaccos I will mention in today's post it is by far the very most expensive.  In all likelihood, unless someone were to give this to me as a gift, more than likely I'll never order it again.  It is simply too expensive.  I can't tell you how many blends I have smoked, but in 50 years it is in the low hundreds.

So, let's talk about affordable blends, which are mostly sold in bulk.  I still like Autumn Evening as my favorite, but this is one that doesn't age well.  It must be ordered in a small two ounce bag and must be smoked rather quickly.  It does not age.  I can't keep a large quantity on hand.  It is mostly a treat tobacco for short periods of time.  But what about those larger quanity of tobaccos I can keep for a period of time?

If there is one English that is affordable that I can keep over time it would be Old Professor.  That would be the number one English I would always have on hand as my number one English.  It has a room note and taste of a Mahogany paneled office with an overstuffed leather chair.  That describes Old Professor the best, but it is the one tobacco I know my wife does not like.  It  does come in bulk, so it's cheap enough to always have on hand and is an English I like the best as an affordable English tobacco.

Aa for an affordable Aromatic, I seem to like Captain Black Original, but I prefer the same thing without preservatives as being Lane RLP-6.  This is the one I have called Swashbuckler.  But I also have come to like the Rum and Maple as my favorite affordable Aromatic.  If Autumn Evening wasn't so temperamental it would be my all-time tobacco as an Aromatic.  Perhaps the one with the best room note that my wife also likes is Villager Tropical Export.  That is THE one Aromatic I would always have on hand.  It is as high on my list as Autumn Evening.  

These are the Aromatics I would always have on hand.  If I only had one to choose from that are on my list above Tropical Export would be the one.  Now, there are some that deserve to be mentioned here and one is an English I like called Haunted Bookshop.  It has a taste and room note of an old second hand bookshop.  I liked King's Stride by Warped, but I'm not always in the mood for a tobacco with a hint of cigar leaf.  But I did like that tobacco.

I liked Mark Twain that is a light Aromatic, but there are others I would prefer.  I blended some Good Stuff with some Black Cavendish that I enjoyed as my own blend.  I particularly liked the slight flavor of mint found in the Good Stuff.  That blended with Black Cavendish was my own blend, but that was pretty good as my own blend.  I'm sure after sampling some 40 tobaccos from Smoking Pipes alone, I've left something off this list.  Borkam Riff has a blend that is equal to Captain Black Original, but again the Swashbuckler is the best.  

This concludes my reviews of my favorite tobaccos.  If I had one English to choose from it would be Old Professor.  And the one Aromatic would be Villager Topical Export.  But the Rum and Maple would be next choice, followed by Lane RLP-6 or what I have called Swashbuckler.  My over all favorite is, as I have stated above, is Plum Pudding Special Reserve.  That concludes my review for now.  Today I am smoking my Boswell with some Rum and Maple.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave