What are your favorites!

BobbyG

I'm still very new to pipe smoking and need some suggestions. There is alot of experience here so I appreciate your opinions. What are your top 5 aromatics, englishes, virginias and burleys.

RockyMountainBriar

In no particular order, and I’m fairly new to the game too.  Palate’s are different, your “mileage” will vary.

Aromatics: Ratttay’s Exotic Passion, Dan Tobacco‘s Devil’s Holiday, C&D’s Espresso, STG Lane’s RLP-6, STG Lane’s BCA plus many more.

English: nah-uh....nope....Latakia=nasty, not for me😖

Pure Virginia: Samuel Gawith’s Black XX Rope, Newminster’s No. 400 Superior Navy Flake, Peter Stokkebye’s  Luxury Twist Flake (but only after some age on it), Samuel Gawith’s Full Virginia Flake, C&D’s Blockade Runner (better with some age on it).
 

Pure Burley:  STG Lane’s Five Brothers, C&D Kelly’s Coin, C&D Crooner (Burley w/deertongue), C&D Dark Burley, Tabac Manil La Brumeuse (pure Semois).

Va/Per:  Samuel Gawith’s Cabbie’s Mixture, C&D’s Orion’s Arrow, C&D’s Carolina Red Flake w/Perique, G.L. Pease’s Stonehenge Flake, Orlik’s Golden Sliced (but only after some age on it).
I’ll add McClelland’s Beacon because I like it a lot, but it is no longer available (if you find some at a reasonable price let me know).

Oriental/Turkish:  G.L. Pease’s Regent’s Flake, C&D’s Oriental Silk, D&R’s Ramback Regular, G.L. Pease’s Cairo, C&D’s Izmir Turkish.

PappyJoe

Top five aromatics: (some may no longer be available)
1. Kohlhase & Kopp Winter Edition 2015 (no longer made)
2. Rattray's Exotic Passion
3. HU Tillerman
4. McClelland's Master Penman (no longer made)
5. Rattray's Caribbean Dream
6. HU China's Heaven

Non aromatics:
1. RO Acadian English
2. RO Acadian Perique
3. George Washington (Burley blend. Hasn't been made since 1974)
4. Sutliff Crumble Cake
5. Penzance

BobbyG

Thank you @RockyMountainBriar and @PappyJoe for your picks!

Balisong

If you want to try some English/Balkan style tobaccos, I  started with Peterson Early Morning Pipe and Standard Mixture. If you like those and want to go further I would recommend G&H Balkan Mixture and Balkan Sasieni. Samuel Gawith Skiff and Squadron Leader are good choices but currently hard to find.

For Viginia Flakes I used to swear by Dunhill (now Peterson) Flake but that hasn't impressed me recently. Dan Hamborger Veermaster is a favorite along with previously mentioned Newminster 400. John Aylesbury Sir John's Flake and Classic Flake are good. The Virginia Flake offerings from Fribourg & Trayer, Wessex and Astley's are worth a try.

motie2

Aromatics - Barbados Plantation, H&H Egg Nog
English/Balkan - Balkan Sasieni, White Knight, Magnum Opus
VaPer - Escudo

Balisong

Aromatic - LJ Peretti's Boston's Best Cavendish or Samuel Gawith Black Forest (not sure sure they're considered aromatics but as flavored as I go)

English/Balkan - Gawith Balkan Mixture, Lancer's Slices, Father Dempsey, EMP, London Mixture, Davidoff Royalty 

Virginia Flake - Dunhil, Astley 109 and 44, Hamborger Veermaster, Aylesbury Classic Flake and Sir John Virginia Flake, Rotary Navy Cut, Wessex Campaign Dark Flake 

buflosab

Vanilla Custard- RLP-6, LL-7- VBC, Barbados Plantation, Boswell Best, to name a few.

motie2

@buflosab

You never responded: Which blend do you find the most vanilla-y?
Vanilla Custard?   VBC?   Or LL-7?

buflosab

@motie2, My apologies, I would say definitely VBC, with Vanilla Custard a close but somewhat different flavor, LL-7 not to much of a Vanilla taste.

motie2

@buflosab

We agree!😃

RSPiper

At first it was Sutliff Black Cordial, Creme Brulee and the like then I started really enjoying Scotty's Blends especially Trout Stream and Butternut Burley, lately it has been the old cogger blends, Carter Hall and Half and Half. My tastes seem to change depending on the mood I am it at the time. I still love then all but I just tend to move away from some for a while and then come back later.