Briary Blends

  • One of my favorite things to pair a cigar or pipe tobacco with is a good cup of coffee, So, it is no wonder that when the time came to decide on the aromatic for the Briary Blends series, I immediately thought of coffee. The result, blended by Jeremy Reeves, is 603 Roast. Could this…

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  • In this video, I review Dexter’s Secret, an English flake in the 7-20-4 Briary Blends series. Dexter’s Secret is a repeatable, maybe even an all-day Latakia blend, but it is bolder than blends like My Mixture 965 but not as strong as Night Cap or Quiet Nights. I also share how the blend came about,…

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  • About 5 years ago, I started a conversation with Cornell & Diehl’s Jeremy Reeves about making a tobacco line extension for Kurt Kendall’s 7-20-4 cigar line. The first of these to be released was a Burley blend we called Boston Tea Party. In this video, I open up a tin from the original release back…

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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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  • 7-20-4 Briary Blends: Boston Tea Party

    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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