I think I got the VaPers!

[billmess]

I tried my first VaPer, Solani Virginia Flake w/Perique. WOW! It was awesome! Easy to light, smokes even, smells and tastes great, withou a bad after taste. This stuff is a winner. I smoked it in a MM Diplomat with a Walker briarworks mini-churchwarder stem. Needless to say this will by my new VaPer pipe.
Can any of you VaPer guys recommend another tobacco similar to the solani?


Thanks,
Bill

 

[MisterE]

Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake, Reiner's Long Golden Flake.

 

[alfredo_buscatti]

Davidoff Flake Medallions is fantastic, albeit it has a low Perique profile, probably between 2-4%; not like the vigorous amount in Escudo, probably about 8-12% (percentages from GLP's "The Pleasures and Perils of Perique").

The DFM's always smoke, for me, as if they use very high class VAs; everything is in balance; you wonder how they pulled off the blend. But I do love Escudo, I'm just prepared for the significant amount of Perique. Love Perique.

 

[Brewdude]

Try C&D exhausted Rooster. Thank me later.

:face:


Cheers,

RR

 

[Puff Daddy]

Astley's 109
McClelland St James Woods

 

[DustyRoundup]

G.L. Pease " Fillmore"

You have to try it.
I researched the Va-pers a while back, and this one came up a few times, and it had good reviews on tobaccoreviews.

I myself am going to get more.

 

[Ol'Dawg]

McConnell's Scottish Cake is my fav.

Jim

 

[deepbass9]

I'm really digging both GLP's Triple Play and McCelland's Beacon Extra. They're full on Perique, but you can just get regular Beacon to start (though I've not had it...).

I also love Escudo (must have).

I have conflicting emotions about Fillmore. It was my first Perique and I didn't "get" it. Now that I come back to it, I get it, but not sure I dig it. Some folks love it to death, but that's the way I'm feeling about the Triple & Beacon. I find Bayou AM Flake to be in the same vein as Fillmore, and so have struggled with that a bit, as well, with whether or not it's for me. Taste is taste is taste..what's your taste?


Also feeling my way through Peterson's Irish Oak...

 

[fishnrust]

Since Kingfisher seems to be nonexistent, does anyone know of anything similar?

 

[idbowman]

G.L. Pease " Fillmore"

You have to try it.
I researched the Va-pers a while back, and this one came up a few times, and it had good reviews on tobaccoreviews.

I myself am going to get more.

I know this hobby of ours is subjective, but this is the only right answer.

I don't think it's a pure VaPer, as there is just a tiny hint of Latakia (I think there is, anyway). I actually don't care for latakia much, but its used so modestly that it's barely noticeable - but in a very good sort of way. GLP's Haddo's Delight is another fine option to keep in the rotation.

 

[Hermit]

G.L. Pease " Fillmore"

You have to try it.
I researched the Va-pers a while back, and this one came up a few times, and it had good reviews on tobaccoreviews.

I myself am going to get more.

I know this hobby of ours is subjective, but this is the only right answer.

I don't think it's a pure VaPer, as there is just a tiny hint of Latakia (I think there is, anyway). I actually don't care for latakia much, but its used so modestly that it's barely noticeable - but in a very good sort of way. GLP's Haddo's Delight is another fine option to keep in the rotation.

You're right about Fillmore; it has about 1% Latakia.
But if yer a purist, Haddo's ain't a VA/Per either. :evil:

(Fillmore and Haddo's are among my favorites.)

Stratford and Telegraph Hill are two of my favorite VA/Pers.

 

[babysinister]

H&H Louisiana Red is a good introductory VaPer. LR and Park-Lane Red Paramour are good choices if along with perique you also like the brighter virginias. Other good VaPers are McClelland Tudor Castle and Beacon and C&D Bayou Morning.

 

[idbowman]

.and C&D Bayou Morning.

Glad to hear that...I ordered my first tin last night, and am anxiously waiting to try it.

 

[mattia76]

Hearth and Home Anniversary Kake--My all-day and go-to smoke.

Haddo's Delight--especially if you can find some with at least a year of age--really mellows it out.

 

[smokey422]

My all-time favorite VA/Per is Peretti's Park Square. No. 2 is Pipes and Cigars' Anniversary Kake. You can't go wrong with either of these two.

Smokey