Maxim Engles - The Worlds Greatest Tobaccos.

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The Worlds Greatest Tobaccos.
 
After over 40 years of pipe smoking and having consulted with a number of knowledgeable smokers I have comprised this list of what i consider some of the best tobaccos ever made.  I was originally going to keep it limited to 10 but it grew, & became 10 plus makers and what I consider their best blends. Some of these have not been made for years but occasionally can be found at a reasonable price.  Some are still current.

I freely admit that I mostly smoke English & Oriental Mixtures and occasionally Flake. Burley I have never cared for. Therefore I make no apologies that the list is totally idiosyncratic and I do not attempt to describe each tobacco. There is plenty of information on the web about each one.


1: Dunhill –
All made in England by Dunhill, The Murrays, then McConnell and back to Murrays. The stuff mad today in Denmark is nowhere near the same
Mixture 965
Early Morning pipe Tobacco
Standard Mixture (medium or mild)
All are English mixtures.

2: Garfinkles ‘
Ridgeway  - made for them by Balkan Sobranie
Oriental Mixture

3: Sobranie of London
Black & White – Balkan –a legend and rightly so
759 – Balkan – same again
The new Balkan Sobranie by JF Germain & Son is reasonably close to the original. With a few years of aging it gets closer. Albeit they did a very poor job of reproducing the original artwork.

4: Barney’s – the Made in UK only!
Punchbowl – a full English
The Ideal Tobacco –An English with slightly acidic tang.

5: Sullivan & Powell Burlington Arcade
Sullivan’s Special Mixture
OX

6: Simms
Royal Air Force Mixture –English
Medium Mixture

7:  John Cottons’
Smyrna
N0. 1& 2

8: Samuel Gawith
Medium Virginia Flake
Balkan Flake


9: McClelland’s
Frog Morton – all of them
Red Cake
Most of their Flakes

10: Wellnauer Swiss Made
English Mixture
Superb and unusually has Virginia bright along with the normal
Latakia, Perique & Orientals’.

11: Rattrays – English Made
Black Mallory
Red Rapperee  - German made is also good
7 Reserve – German mad is also good

12: Dobie’s 4 Square
Any of he original English Made mixtures

 13: James Fox – originally English Made now made in Germany and reasonably close to the originals
The Squire’s Mixture
Provost Mixture

14; Bells 3 Nuns – the UK original only

15: Escudo Navy De Lux – UK Made. The A7C Peterson version currently made I do not care for but some do.

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J