Plum Pudding Special Reserve
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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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I often describe Esoterica’s Penzance as the “Opus X” of the pipe tobacco world. A few years ago, I smoked Seattle Pipe Club’s Plum Pudding Special Reserve side by side with Penzance and found it strikingly similar. The same feeling happened when I had my first bowl of Gladora’s Pesse Canoe Latakia Flake-40. That led…
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