who has found that virginias, especially those without perique, burleys and/or kentuckys, are damned finicky smokes?
viginia flakes even more so,
in my admittedly limited experience, viriginias are inconsistent....packing, puffing, pipe choice are always wild cards.i have smoked the same tobacco in the same pipe three or four different times and have had thre or four vastly different smoking experiences.
by contrast, my dunhill smm smokes great, seemingly oblivious to the pipe or packing technique (or lack thereof). so does squadron leader and duhill london mixture. prince albert too. but mostly blends with latakia or orientals.
sure, there are pipefuls which are tastier, but mostly day in day out the range between an ok smoke and an outstanding one appears a lot narrower.
anyone else have a similar view, or am i out in left field...again?
john
viginia flakes even more so,
in my admittedly limited experience, viriginias are inconsistent....packing, puffing, pipe choice are always wild cards.i have smoked the same tobacco in the same pipe three or four different times and have had thre or four vastly different smoking experiences.
by contrast, my dunhill smm smokes great, seemingly oblivious to the pipe or packing technique (or lack thereof). so does squadron leader and duhill london mixture. prince albert too. but mostly blends with latakia or orientals.
sure, there are pipefuls which are tastier, but mostly day in day out the range between an ok smoke and an outstanding one appears a lot narrower.
anyone else have a similar view, or am i out in left field...again?
john