I ordered a new Wizard pipe the other day and trying some of the Middle Earth line from Just For Him seemed like an appropriate and fun adventure. I went to their site and looked a bit, noticed they have a middle Earth Sampler...for $10. You get a whopping quarter ounce (can you even SEE that amount in a baggie?) of each of their five blends, plus shipping. Less than exciting. But you could order by the ounce for $3.25...so REAL samples of all five would cost me $16.25. So you get four times the tobacco for six bucks more than the sampler. OK - that made more sense...so I popped for the set.
As most of you likely know, they are all aromatics, but not grossly so. The five are 'Shorcut to Mushrooms' (the most well known and having a good reputation), 'Ruins of Isengard', 'Old Toby', 'Treebeard', and 'Longbottom Leaf'. I've tried all of them. They are all mild blends, SCTM and ROI being lightly touched with Latakia which I normally avoid...but the L was very condimental and overall the blends were quite good. The others mostly are blends of VA and Burley leaf with other stuff in there...Perique, Cavendish, flavorings like Vanilla and I thought I noted a cocoa kind of scent in one. All in all I was surprised that I liked them so much. All of this first round were sampled via a Cob...a very good pipe for these I'm thinking.
So, given what they are, and given that I'm not an aromatic smoker very often, I still recommend these. It's Fall and getting on to the end of strollin' and smokin' weather. Home fires are burning and pots of thick soups and stew are bubbling on the hearth. I just get that Middle Earth kinda vibe going in the Fall - so these fill 'the need for weed'.
If your Middle Earth hunger is growling away, these are likely suspects for your churchwarden. Also, you might try McClelland's 'Gray Havens' and 'Deep Hollow' from their Craftsbury line. I'm not much of an expert on the Hollow one, but Gray Havens is another mildly aromatic VA/Burley blend that I like pretty well.
And just be carefull when you put your foot out your front door...you never know where the road's gonna take ya! :study:
As most of you likely know, they are all aromatics, but not grossly so. The five are 'Shorcut to Mushrooms' (the most well known and having a good reputation), 'Ruins of Isengard', 'Old Toby', 'Treebeard', and 'Longbottom Leaf'. I've tried all of them. They are all mild blends, SCTM and ROI being lightly touched with Latakia which I normally avoid...but the L was very condimental and overall the blends were quite good. The others mostly are blends of VA and Burley leaf with other stuff in there...Perique, Cavendish, flavorings like Vanilla and I thought I noted a cocoa kind of scent in one. All in all I was surprised that I liked them so much. All of this first round were sampled via a Cob...a very good pipe for these I'm thinking.
So, given what they are, and given that I'm not an aromatic smoker very often, I still recommend these. It's Fall and getting on to the end of strollin' and smokin' weather. Home fires are burning and pots of thick soups and stew are bubbling on the hearth. I just get that Middle Earth kinda vibe going in the Fall - so these fill 'the need for weed'.
If your Middle Earth hunger is growling away, these are likely suspects for your churchwarden. Also, you might try McClelland's 'Gray Havens' and 'Deep Hollow' from their Craftsbury line. I'm not much of an expert on the Hollow one, but Gray Havens is another mildly aromatic VA/Burley blend that I like pretty well.
And just be carefull when you put your foot out your front door...you never know where the road's gonna take ya! :study:
