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Guest Guest
 | Subject: The Three Castles Tobacco Mon May 18, 2015 7:30 am | |
| Found this tin, made in England by HO & WD Wills - manufacturer of Capstan-, James B. Russell (NH) as the US distributor. It looks like a pipe tobacco tin and is 3 1/4 oz.  I did some research and found out it was created and released as pipe tobacco in the 1870s, but became popular quickly as cigarette tobacco. So, I was wondering if anybody was familiar with this one: did I buy pipe or cigarette tobacco? 
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DireWolf

Age : 46 Location : NW Oregon Registration date : 2015-01-13
 | Subject: Re: The Three Castles Tobacco Mon May 18, 2015 8:48 am | |
| Cigarette.
Probably sought after.
It's quite good. |
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JimInks

Location : North Carolina Registration date : 2012-08-31
 | Subject: Re: The Three Castles Tobacco Mon May 18, 2015 8:50 am | |
| You bought cigarette tobacco. However, I smoked a few tins in the early 1990s, and liked it as pipe tobacco. Puff it at a slow to moderate rate, and it has a nice Virginia taste. You're lucky.
D&R Three Sails is very, very close to that blend. I'd say it's the same. |
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Guest Guest
 | Subject: Re: The Three Castles Tobacco Mon May 18, 2015 9:27 am | |
| Thanks for your responses, gents. I will try it in a pipe if you liked it as such, Jim. |
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DrumsAndBeer

Age : 46 Location : Northern, CA Registration date : 2012-04-04
 | Subject: Re: The Three Castles Tobacco Mon May 18, 2015 12:52 pm | |
| One thing is for certain, that's a cool looking tin. |
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monbla256

Age : 73 Location : DFW Metroplex, Texas Registration date : 2012-01-15
 | Subject: Re: The Three Castles Tobacco Mon May 18, 2015 2:15 pm | |
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JimInks

Location : North Carolina Registration date : 2012-08-31
 | Subject: Re: The Three Castles Tobacco Tue May 19, 2015 8:52 pm | |
| I added Three Castles to the Tobacco Reviews site and this is the review I posted:
A simple, uncomplicated flue cured Virginia with natural citrusy sweetness and some grass and hay. I also got a few familiar notes that reminded me of Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic. I'm not comparing those two blends because they are different (e.g., SWRA has a topping and this does not), but they both must have a similar type of Virginia. Puffed at a slow to moderate rate, it didn’t bite or get harsh or amazingly cigarette-like, though you may have gotten some of the latter no matter how slow you puffed. Puffed fast, and you risked all of that and more. Left no moisture, and being a dry shag cut, burned quickly, but not hot if you paced the smoke. Had a nice nic-note. A nice all day non-complex smoke with pure Virginia flavor.
Three Castles was designed to be both a pipe and a cigarette tobacco, though I only smoked it in a pipe.
I smoked several tins of this in the mid-1990s, and as I have not smoked the latest version - which I am told (by D&R blender Mark Ryan) is exactly the same blend as what I experienced - I wrote my review in the past tense. Mr. Ryan had a hand is bringing Three Castles back, and also sells it in the US as Three Sails under the D&R brand. |
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Brewdude Moderator

Age : 66 Location : Arid-zona Registration date : 2011-05-04
 | Subject: Re: The Three Castles Tobacco Tue May 19, 2015 9:53 pm | |
| - DrumsAndBeer wrote:
- One thing is for certain, that's a cool looking tin.
Yes! Cheers, RR |
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Fritzie
Registration date : 2016-04-17
 | Subject: First Love Sun Apr 17, 2016 11:11 pm | |
| I smoked Three Castles in the late 50s with my first love, and in the 60s in San Francisco. I had it in a pouch and in a tall tin. Both seemed the same. I smoked in a pipe (as someone said "gently, slowly") and rolled cigarettes too. It was very very fine, soft and sweet, and did smell like lovely hay & grasses. A most beautiful smoke! |
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Guest Guest
 | Subject: Re: The Three Castles Tobacco Mon Apr 18, 2016 5:51 am | |
| - Fritzie wrote:
- I smoked Three Castles in the late 50s with my first love, and in the 60s in San Francisco. I had it in a pouch and in a tall tin. Both seemed the same. I smoked in a pipe (as someone said "gently, slowly") and rolled cigarettes too. It was very very fine, soft and sweet, and did smell like lovely hay & grasses. A most beautiful smoke!
Hmmm, I guess I will have to smoke it, then. Thanks for sharing your impressions. |
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