What Are Your Current Top 5 Tobacco Blends (Brands)
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What would you consider to be your current Top Five blends? Maybe I should re-word it to Top Five Brands ... but you get my idea.
Tastes change on a regular basis and what you considered to be a favorite two years ago might not even make the cut on this current list. Had I made this list about five years ago Captain Black Gold would have been at the top of the list. Now although I still love all the Captain Black blends (with the exception of Cherry), and are part of my rotation, they probably won't even make my honorable mention list.
1. East India Trading Company "Officer's Club"
2. Scotty's "Trout Stream"
3. Sutliff "Molto Dolce"
4. Russ' Monthly Blend - "Warm Up"
5. Lane Limited "Wild Hare"
Honorable Mention:
Mrs. Hudson's 221B Bakery Blend (3 parts Sutliff Vanilla Custard, 2 parts Sutliff Chocolate Mousse, 1 part Sutliff Creme Brulee)
Sutliff Barbados Plantation
Sutliff Christmas Spice
Both "Trout Stream" and "Wild Hare" are relatively new blends to me and have leap-frogged to the top of my list in a very short time. So I'd be interested to see where they might place if I make a similar list in a year or two from now once the newness wears off and something new strikes my fickle fancy. I think it's safe to say that "Warn Up", Officer's Club" and "Molto Dolce" will remain on the list.
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King's Smoking Pipes ~ King of Swords
G.L. Pease ~ Gaslight
Scandinavian Tobacco ~ Balkan Sasieni
Seattle Pipe Club ~ Plum Pudding
Hearth & Home ~ Blackhouse
Honorable mentions;
Hermit Tobacco ~ Ten Russians
C&D ~ Pirate Kake
G. L. Pease ~ Quiet Nights
I expect this list will change as I explore new blends, especially the GLP and SPC blends.
2. TCS Hunting Creek
3. TCS Rivendell
4. Sutliff's Vanilla Custard
5. Mrs. Hudsons
Those are the ones most often in my "tobacco box" I carry with me to work on the daily basis. That being said several others i smoke enough to be worth mentioning is:
1. Barbados Plantation
2. East India's Cellar Reserve and Royal Challenge
1. Rattray's Exotic Passion (Used to be Exotic Orange)
2. D&R's London Dock
3. Peterson's Special Reserve
4. Holger Danske Black & Bourbon
5. Rattray's Red Rapparee (The one non-aromatic I seem to reach for lately)
Honorable Mentions:
1. D&R's Athey - While it's a straight Virginia, it is also mildly flavored with Scotch, molasses and a touch of something floral.
2. Sutliff Taste of Spring - A good simple aromatic with a honey flavor. Great for when you don't want to think about what you're smoking.
2) Lane Vanilla Black Cavendish
3) BCA
4) RLP-6
5) Gaslight and Jolly Old Saint Nicholas (tie)
1) C&D - Mad Fiddler Flake
2) H&H -Anniversary Kake
3) Dunhill - Deluxe Navy Rolls
4) C&D - Carolina Red Flake (2016)
5) Mcclelland - Frog Across the Pond
I'm not really a fan of C&D blends, I'm a bit surprised that 2 of my current top 5 are blended by them.
Welcome home, brother!
Let's do it.....
Boy oh boy, would we get along......
Dan Tobacco “Devil’s Holiday”, Rattray’s “Exotic Orange”, Samuel Gawith’s “Cabbie’s Mixture”, Lane Tobacco “BCA”, Lane Tobacco “RLP-6”.
Me also. I have been notified two times, may three. I was on the site in less than 30 minutes after getting the notice and was not fast enough to procure another tin. I actually had two tins in my cart, and was not able to get to the payment screen before it was out of stock again😤. Same thing with “Cabbie’s Mixture”🤨.
3) Comoy's Cask 11
4) Newminster English Oriental
Working it's way to the top of the list... #1) Sutliff: Sunset Rum
Next, because it will blend with anything...#2) Sutliff: Vanilla Custard
From day 1 to the present my go to... #3) Lane Ltd.: Burley Lite Without A Bite
A blend that my brother prepares...#4) DBJ: Wonderlust (an awesome Black Cavendish/Latakia mix)
and last but certainly not least... #5) Lane Ltd: LL7