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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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I got my S.T. Dupont lighter about 20 years ago. Yes, a Bic has the same soft flame. No, the palladium does not add to its effectiveness. And no, I do not recommend them if you lose stuff. But nothing beats that Dupont “ping!” That said, it has been the most reliable lighter I have…
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Another of the original SPC blends being revived via Seattle Pipe Club’s relationship with Cornell & Diehl is Hogshead, a three country Virginia blend presented as a crumble cake plug. The tin description suggests this might just be your perfect Virginia. A bold claim! Does it live up to the hype?
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As promised, I did a side-by-side comparison of Seattle Pipe Club’s Plum Pudding Special Reserve manufactured by Cornell & Diehl verses the original blend manufactured by Sutliff. I am so glad I did!
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One of the brands that fell victim to Scandinavian Tobacco Group’s acquisition and subsequent dismantling of Mac Baren and Sutliff was Joe Lankford’s Seattle Pipe Club blends. Thankfully, Joe’s blends have been resurrected by Seattle Pipe Club and Cornell & Diehl, who are using the original recipes and even the original machines on which they…
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Recently, Arango Cigar Company “an importer and distributor for many classic OTC blends like Prince Albert and Carter Hall, has brought back Royal Comfort for a new generation of pipe smokers and classic fans alike” (that’s a quote from their website). Royal Comfort is a Red Virginia, Cavendish, and Perique blend with “crisp fruit, cask-aged…
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I was excited. An unopened 8oz tin of Haddo’s Delight from 2019. What would that be like? Opening the tin, I found there had been some break in the seal, and the tobacco was very dry. Undeterred, I decided to try it anyway and talk about a few ways to bring dry tobacco back to…
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Erik Stokkebye is a friend of mine, and one of my favorite people in the business. His limited releases have become something I look forward to every year. One of the reasons I look forward to it is that Erik utilizes his contacts across the pipe and tobacco industry working with different blenders each year…
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In this video, I open up and show you the result of Erik Stokkebye’s latest collaboration with iM Corona. Erik has done several projects with them, and this one is especially good! A lot of thought has been put into these lighters, so I give a little iM Corona 101 to show you how to…
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In my review of this year’s release of From Beyond, I mused that it seemed different from my memory of previous releases, and that it would be interesting to see if that were true and if so how. Looking in my cellar, I found I indeed had a tin of the original release of From…
Not Just Blowing Smoke with Pastor Padron 