Review
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One of the things Gawith Hoggarth is famous for is their twist or rope tobaccos. Among the most popular are Brown Irish X and its cooked and pressed cousin, Black Irish X. They also make twists with different toppings, in this case, rum. Does the rum add something to the twist, or does it get
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In this video, I open a tin of G.L. Pease Windjammer to review and take the opportunity to show how I prefer to pack a flake cut tobacco in my pipe.
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7-20-4 Briary Blends Little Gold Dust is one of five blends resulting from a collaboration between Jeremy Reeves from Cornell & Diehl and myself for Kurt Kendall, the owner of Twins Smoke Shop and 7-20-4 Cigars. Now available everywhere through twinssmokeshop.com, I want to share these blends with you, starting with this Virginia/Dark Fired Kentucky
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HU’s Night Owl showed up at my shop this week after being on backorder for months. At least it got here in time for Father’s Day. But was it worth the wait? I share my own thoughts on it in this Father’s Day video.
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Gladora’s Pesse Canoe Latakia Flake 40 is a Balkan-style blend of Turkish grown Virginias, Orientals, and Latakia–which makes up 40% of the blend. There are a number of heavy Latakia blends available already, but after my positive experience with Pesse Canoe Oriental Flake, I decided to jump in and give this tobacco a try and
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Gladora is a pipe tobacco company based in Izmir, Turkey, whose brands of tobacco have until recently only been available in the European market. Gladora’s Pesse Canoe line, including their Oriental Flake, is now available in the US via Laudisi Distribution Group. Is it worth looking for?
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First came the Black, then the Blue, followed by the Red. This year, Micallef introduced the Purple, which combines the wrapper and some fillers from the Blue with the binder and some fillers from the Red. The medium brown-gold wrapper is velvety smooth. The cold draw is excellent, offering notes of barnyard, hay, and wood.
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JRE Tobacco has introduced a special line of cigars known as Camp Aladino, available in Corojo, Cameroon, and Maduro wrappers. These cigars are exclusively offered at retailers who have visited the Aladino farm in Honduras. The line comes in only one vitola—a 4 1/2 x 60 “Gorbusto.” The medium brown wrapper is tightly rolled with
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Cornell & Diehl’s Small Batch Sansepolcro is back in a 10,000 tin release. Is this year’s iteration of their Italian Dark Fired Kentucky blend worth looking up?
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The Perdomo 30th Anniversary Maduro Epicure is a cigar that honors Nick Perdomo’s 30 years in the cigar industry, celebrated in 2022. Each of the three blends in the line features 15-year-old tobaccos, with the wrappers receiving extra aging time in bourbon barrels. For the Maduro Epicure, the wrapper is barrel-aged for an additional 14
Not Just Blowing Smoke with Pastor Padron 