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One of the highlights of my career as a tobacconist has been the privilege of working with Jeremy Reeves, the head blender at Cornell & Diehl, and Kaz Walters from Laudisi Distribution Group, on a series of pipe tobacco blends that would essentially be a tobacco line extension to Kurt Kendall’s storied 7-20-4 cigar brand.…
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The Yagua Toro is a visually unique cigar with its multi-sided, misshapen appearance that comes from being wrapped into bundles of 20 in royal palm leaves in lieu of going into individual presses after being rolled. The result is a bundle in which no two cigars look alike. Wrapper: CT BroadleafBinder: NicaraguanFiller: NicaraguanSize: Toro 6…
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One of GL Pease’s Original Mixtures, Barbary Coast is a blend of cube-cut Burley, Red Virginia, and Perique with a “kiss” of brandy. It is one of the few blends from GL Pease that you may want to give a few minutes of drying time before smoking. I find that it works best in a…
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The RoMa Craft CRAFT Maquette Mon Cheri is a limited edition cigar, with only 650 bundles available. It features a barber pole design with an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper accompanied by a pinstripe of Ecuadorian Habano, and is further accented with a shiny brown footband. The wrapper is slightly toothy with a light oily sheen, and…
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Cringle Flake has been an annual release from Sutliff since 2019, always featuring top grade aged Red Virginias. The original blend was a straight Red Virginia flake, while the subsequent years (2020-2023) were Virginia Perique blends. For the first time since its inception, Cringle Flake 2024 is again a straight Virginia flake. A blend of…
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HU Tobacco is a German company founded by master blender Hans Wiedemann, with a strong following in the pipe community. Thanks to a new relationship with Laudisi Enterprises, HU tobaccos are now available in the US domestic market for the first time in 100g tins. Dark Moor is a ribbon-cut blend of Brown Virginia, Kentucky,…
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The Mi Querida Green Pata Perro 8.5 x 52 is DT&T’s replacement for the Polpetta as their event-only cigar. Interestingly, “pata perro” is a Spanish idiom that translates to “dog’s paw” and is often used to describe someone who can’t stay in one place for too long, much like a dog that is always roaming.…
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One of the things I have been learning is that everyone has problems. You have problems. I have problems. I don’t know anyone who does not have problems! If you are alive and breathing, you have a problem. If you don’t think you have a problem, your problem is worse than you realize! Something else…
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G.L. Pease Cumberland is one of my all-time favorite tobaccos. I have been smoking it since it came out around 2000 and have almost always had a tin with me since. This ribbon-cut blend of Dark Fired Kentucky, Red Virginia, and a bit of Perique enhances and complements each component in such a way that…
Not Just Blowing Smoke with Pastor Padron 