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RE: Pipe Tobacco Review: McClelland Classic Virginia Flake - With An Introduction To Virginia And Flake Tobaccos
That's one of the darkest looking Virginia flakes I've seen. I need to buy some tobacco soon and I've been meaning to try some of the American blends so I might have to keep an eye out for that one. Although I'll probably just end up spending all my money on a few tins of Mac Baren's Vintage Syrian before it's gone forever.
I like MacBaren but I haven't tried the Syrian. I'll have to add it to my list!
Cornell & Diehl is another good US tobacco company if you're looking to try something new. I highly recommend their "Briar Fox".
I would definitely recommend trying the Vintage Syrian, out of the 10 or so blends I've tried since I've started pipe smoking it's definitely my favorite.
Cornell & Diehl are definitely on my list to try, along with a few others. I find C&D and McClelland have so many blends I never know where to start, so thanks for the recommendations, I'll definitely keep them in mind.
I only hope I don't get stung by customs after I make an order, haha.
Yeah, I've heard it can be harder to get this stuff over there. But I've also heard that you have a ton of great, classic tobacco shops in the UK, especially around London. I've often dreamed that maybe I could immigrate if I could prove I had unique and critical professional skills as a tobacconist.
I haven't been to the UK in a few years so I've never visited any of their tobacconists unfortunately, and most of the online ones that I've seen don't seem to want to ship outside the UK.
When it comes to Ireland there is very little choice, the only tobacconists I know of are in Dublin. One is James Fox, which has more whiskey than tobacco, another is the Decent Cigar Emporium, which is mainly about cigars (obviously) and has even less of a pipe tobacco selection than James Fox, the last one I know of is Peterson's which I've yet to check out but I imagine they mostly sell Peterson's blends. And the prices here are ridiculous, there almost always a bit more than double the price of the same tobaccos I see on US sites.
So, yeah, if you want to emigrate somewhere as a tobacconist you should come to Ireland, there's a pretty big gap in the market here, haha.
My apologies - I thought you were in Scotland! I hope you can forgive me...
I wouldn't mind opening a little shop in Ireland some day either, though.
What do you think of Peterson's blends? I love their pipes but haven't tried their tobacco. I've watched some videos of their factory; it's quite an impressive operation.
No worries, I saw you mentioned something about me being in Scotland in your dream post and was going to say something but I just put it down to dream logic, haha.
The only Peterson blends I've smoked have been University Flake and De Luxe Mixture. They were the first two tobaccos I tried and really enjoyed both of them. I recently bought another tin of the De Luxe Mixture but it hasn't quite hit the spot like it did the first time, although it's still one of the nicest aromatics I've tried. I'd like to try the University Flake again, because I remember enjoying it, but there are other tobaccos I'd rather spend my money on right now, haha.
I think Peterson's tobaccos are just fine, they don't seem to be anything special, but I've only tried two of them and don't have a huge amount of other tobaccos to compare them to.