Penzance

Bonanzadriver

As the title implies, this thread is about Penzance. 18+ year old Penzance to be exact.

You all may remember that back in April my son Nick and I went to the
TAPS pipe show in Raleigh. While there one of the things I picked up
was a pristine tin of Penzance. The older gentleman selling it knew
only that it was over 10 years old and had been kept in a mason jar all
of this time. (he bought it from an older gentleman that had since
stopped smoking a pipe)

With the help of folks here and on other forums it was determined that the tin was a 1999 or older 2oz tin of Penzance.

Once I learned this I decided to save this lucky find for a special occasion.

Well, that special occasion was this weekend. Our baby girl, Jenni,
just graduated from High School. Although she didn't have any of this
incredible tobacco delight, she did sit in the mancave for a while with
her brother and I when we both enjoyed our very first bowl.

I gotta tell you guys, this experience was all I had hoped it would be and more! HOLY COW is this GREAT STUFF!!!!

Having never ever smoked Penzance before, I didn't have anything to
base our experience off of, as it relates to whether or not this was
typical of all tins of Penzance or if somehow, the fact that it was 18
or 20 years old?

I'm obviously not a tobacco reviewer, but I can tell you that the
flavor of this was much richer and fuller than the Margate I've been
smoking for the last several months.

Don't get me wrong, I love Margate, but after experiencing Penzance this evening, Margate is a distant second.

What pipe, you may be asking yourself, did you give the honor of facilitating this nirvana moment?

Why, the beautiful Yacht sitting in my pipe rack of course...

SERENTIL

Great moment! Thanks for sharing that @bonanzadriver!   Nice pipe! 

PappyJoe

At a pipe club meeting in mid-2015, one of the members brought a tin of Penzance and shared it. His was relatively new but it still smoked very well. Later I was fortunate enough to find a vendor at the New Orleans Pipe Show who had tins of Penzance and I bought 2 of them. I vaguely remember that they had a 2 tin limit but I could be wrong about that. Anyway, The first tin didn't last much longer than a month and the second tin is still sitting in the bottom of my cellar aging. After the first tin, I promised I wouldn't open the second tin until I had purchased more. 

Woodsman

Penzance? Did somebody mention Penzance?