Thanks Piet, this was an awesome post and confirm my own journey this year (and thanks for the new stem on my 30 year old GJ) :D .
I'm also in the process of hoarding like a mad man (and occasionally I do enjoy Sturks - to me the "best" local available. But when I first tried GL Pease, Dunhill...
I agree with Rob and others here. I'm in Nelspruit and we have a Wesleys franchise here. I've started with a local tobacco blend-journey awhile ago and had to report on my website the disappointment of local tobacco shops (to be fair, obviously I had only access to a few).
"Well-known Shop" -...
I have 2 Savinelli de luxe Milano's and love both of them! Also wonder what "quality range" they fit in. However, judged on the smoke, I would put it higher than 5.2 / 10 :-)
Yup, photo of http://pienaar.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/robert_sobukwe_141.jpg and http://pienaar.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/thabo_mbeki1-150x150.jpg smoking a pipe. With the anti-smoking campaign, every picture of Madiba smoking a pipe is probably destroyed. :D