Pipe Tobacco favorites

**Grizzly** · 1st February 13, 01:49 AM

Yes Erinmore is still around Jock, it's available at a lot of high st shops and its the one I smoke if I can't get to the tobacconists in Southampton. Some other favourites would be Petersons Connoisseurs Choice and Rattrays Old Gowrie. Funnily enough Rattrays also make a Jocks Mixture although I have no idea what that's like.

**Piipriker** · 1st February 13, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by Grizzly

Yes Erinmore is still around Jock, it's available at a lot of high st shops and its the one I smoke if I can't get to the tobacconists in Southampton. Some other favourites would be Petersons Connoisseurs Choice and Rattrays Old Gowrie. Funnily enough Rattrays also make a Jocks Mixture although I have no idea what that's like.

Jock's Mixture is a Latakia blend. made of ready rubbed Virginia, Black Cavendish and Latakia without flavouring.
Did you know, that all Ratrrays are made in Germany from a blender in a small town near Hamburg? They acquired the name rights and recipies several years ago.

BTW: a tobacco dealer in Germany, who is a fly fisher, has a series of blends named after flies, one of them is called Jock Scot.

**cmcbeth** · 1st February 13, 09:30 PM

De la concha in NYC makes (and ships) a few aromatics with which I am partial: Ivory Coast; Marabella (my current go-to); and (a sweeter end and pleasant to others in the room) Tropical Mist. For dime store nostalgia, Capt Black is tried and true. As mentioned elsewhere, G.L. Pease and Rattrays labels are top notch. Iwan Ries in Chicago has a stout mail order business and its Three Star Blue has long been a favorite amongst pipe smokers (and has the added benefit of being extremely well-priced).

**faithwalker** · 2nd February 13, 06:13 AM

I haven't lifted a pipe to my lips in over thirty years but the talk brings me back, thanks for the memories.

**Jordan** · 2nd February 13, 06:33 AM

I personally like Gwaith and Hogarth's American Cherry and Vanilla. Dunhill Flake is good too.

I've heard good things about Carter Hall and Sir Walter Raleigh, I'm looking forward to trying those when I make it to America.

**flairball** · 2nd February 13, 07:22 AM

I don't know about room odor, but I will say that I prefer to smoke a Balkan. As a cigar smoker, too, I find that many pipe tobaccos don't have enough flavor for me, but Balkan sure does and it's nice.

**tundramanq** · 2nd February 13, 08:33 AM

My choice for about the last 20 years has been Prince Albert ( in the can - LOL). Smells good and is cool burning with no bite unlike the "perfumed" tobaccos. It's also well priced and available about everywhere. And there is a reason for this - it's great!