I ordered some bulk Stokkebye Cube Cut and Virginia with the idea of combining and aging them. Then I started smoking them separately with good results.
The Cube Cut is burley and Red Virginia; the Va is "seven grades" of Va and may be intended for RYO. The Cube Cut has the consistency of thousands of tobacco briquettes which easily tumble out of a pipe. Adding the fine, ribbon-cut Virginia helps keep the briquettes in place, complements the flavor and makes for a low-maintenance, go to smoke, especially for Virginia fanciers.
The price of these bulk tobaks is very attractive. The taste is a combo of sweet, freshly baked bread, new-mown hay and woodsy something. The tobacco descriptions don't indicate any added flavors, just a nice, satisfying bowlful that reminds me of Dunhill Elizabethan. (Making no special claim for my taste memory.)
So I ended up storing them separately, giving me the choice of enjoying their individual characteristics, or mixing a pipeful and enjoying them that way. I do tend to prefer the mix, though I like the variety that comes from on-the-spot blending.
One thing I especially like about this combo, in addition to the tobacco flavor, is that they smoke clean and dry, leaving no artificial film in the piper's mouth or goop in the pipe.
I just sat on a bench out front smoking this mix in a Stanwell blasted billiard while watching my lawn sprinklers do their job and would have stayed put for a second bowl, except the missus appeared with a list of additional chores.
The Cube Cut is burley and Red Virginia; the Va is "seven grades" of Va and may be intended for RYO. The Cube Cut has the consistency of thousands of tobacco briquettes which easily tumble out of a pipe. Adding the fine, ribbon-cut Virginia helps keep the briquettes in place, complements the flavor and makes for a low-maintenance, go to smoke, especially for Virginia fanciers.
The price of these bulk tobaks is very attractive. The taste is a combo of sweet, freshly baked bread, new-mown hay and woodsy something. The tobacco descriptions don't indicate any added flavors, just a nice, satisfying bowlful that reminds me of Dunhill Elizabethan. (Making no special claim for my taste memory.)
So I ended up storing them separately, giving me the choice of enjoying their individual characteristics, or mixing a pipeful and enjoying them that way. I do tend to prefer the mix, though I like the variety that comes from on-the-spot blending.
One thing I especially like about this combo, in addition to the tobacco flavor, is that they smoke clean and dry, leaving no artificial film in the piper's mouth or goop in the pipe.
I just sat on a bench out front smoking this mix in a Stanwell blasted billiard while watching my lawn sprinklers do their job and would have stayed put for a second bowl, except the missus appeared with a list of additional chores.
