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Dock
BoB's Team
Number of posts: 2354
Age: 101
Location: @ The Gym
Tobacco: Arturo Fuente "Hemingway"
Pipe: Former Collector of High End Briar
Registration date: 2007-12-15
| | Subject: Benchmark Blends Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:06 pm | |
| I was thinking that it would be great fun to know what blends you consider "The Benchmark" for each genre. In a perfect world all of our members will respond to this and after a bit of time I will tally up the results to compile the ultimate list! If I've missed any category please feel free to add it.....
Pure/Classic English:
English/Latakia Flake:
Oriental/Turkish:
Oriental Flake:
Virginia:
Virginia Flake:
Virginia/Perique:
Lakeland Flake:
Burley:
Burley Flake:
Drug Store/Over The Counter:
Aromatic:
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Just for fun.....
The Benchmark Tobacco Company or Blender: |
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Frost
Number of posts: 2206
Age: 34
Location: Somewhere near Philly, PA
Tobacco: Various
Pipe: Brisset, Davis, Yakslon, Sasqatch, Lasse
Registration date: 2009-12-31
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:13 pm | |
| Awesome idea Dock.  If you don't mind though, I need a few years of research to come up with some answers. |
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Dock
BoB's Team
Number of posts: 2354
Age: 101
Location: @ The Gym
Tobacco: Arturo Fuente "Hemingway"
Pipe: Former Collector of High End Briar
Registration date: 2007-12-15
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:32 pm | |
| Pure/Classic English: Dunhill's #965 English/Latakia Flake: Esoterica "Penzance" Oriental/Turkish: McClelland's #8 Oriental Flake: Samuel Gawith "Sam's Flake" Virginia: McCranie's "Red Ribbon" Virginia Flake: Samuel Gawith "Full VA Flake" Virginia/Perique: Escudo Lakeland Flake: Gawith & Hoggarth "Brown Flake" Burley: House of Windsor "Barking Dog" Burley Flake: L.J. Peretti's "Somerset Slice" Drug Store/Over The Counter: "Prince Albert" Aromatic: NONE!  *Just for fun..... The Benchmark Tobacco Company or Blender: This was a toughie. It was a tie between Rudiger Will individually and Gawith & Hoggarth collectively  |
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Slow Puffs
Resident Sportscaster
Number of posts: 4890
Age: 64
Location: Alberta. Canada
Tobacco: GLP Telegraph Hill
Pipe: Dunhill Tanshell Liverpool
Registration date: 2007-12-10
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:42 pm | |
| I know there are "fine" lines here, but what would you consider a balkan?
I was scratching my head about where 965 might fit, but you answered it for me... |
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Puff Daddy
Number of posts: 5536
Age: 49
Location: South of heaven
Tobacco: Mostly simple burleys these days
Pipe: Stanwells and Petersons
Registration date: 2007-12-09
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sat Apr 10, 2010 3:51 pm | |
| Pure/Classic English: 965
English/Latakia Flake: Don't have one, but since there's no Balkan category, Penzance.
Oriental/Turkish: Orient 996
Virginia: (I wrote in Dorchester but this is a a vaper, so I guess I don't have a benchmark ribbon cut va at the moment).
Virginia Flake: FVF
Virginia/Perique: Astley's 109
Lakeland Flake: Conniston cut plug unscented
Burley: Uhle's Perfection plug
Burley Flake: Peretti's Sommerset Slice
Drug Store/Over The Counter: Haven't found one that I can live with.
Aromatic: None.
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These are horrible times and all sorts of horrible people are prospering, but we must never let this disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to annoy and hinder them at every turn.
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Slow Puffs
Resident Sportscaster
Number of posts: 4890
Age: 64
Location: Alberta. Canada
Tobacco: GLP Telegraph Hill
Pipe: Dunhill Tanshell Liverpool
Registration date: 2007-12-10
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:24 pm | |
| Pure/Classic English: 965
English/Latakia Flake: Chocolate Flake
Oriental/Turkish: Nightcap
Oriental Flake: Embarcadero
Virginia: Laurel Heights
Virginia Flake: Union Square
Virginia/Perique: Telegraph Hill
Lakeland Flake: Bracken
Burley: Old Joe Krantz
Burley Flake: University Flake
Drug Store/Over The Counter: Green Sail
Aromatic: Blue Note |
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scottbtdmb
Number of posts: 502
Age: 32
Location: Bel Air, MD
Tobacco: Pipeworks & Wilke #10 & #524, Peretti's Royal Blend & Tashkent, GL Pease Abingdon & Robusto, McClelland #27 & VA Woods, Solani Aged Burley Flake, Dunhill 965, Penzance, Fader's Istanbul & #325
Pipe: 1920 Comoy (800 Series), Barling EXEXEL Fossil Pot, Ardor Urano Giant, Savinelli Estella, Peterson Sherlock Holmes & Mark Twain, old GBD pipes, 1950 E Wilke Pot
Registration date: 2010-02-19
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:41 pm | |
| Great idea Dock! Here goes nothing..... Pure/Classic English: Dunhill's #965 English/Latakia Flake: Smoker's Haven's Krumble Kake Oriental/Turkish: Pipeworks & Wilke #10 Oriental Flake: N/A Virginia: McCranie's "Red Ribbon" Virginia Flake: Samuel Gawith "Full VA Flake" Virginia/Perique: Rattray Hal O' The Wynd Lakeland Flake: N/A Burley: House of Windsor "Barking Dog" Burley Flake: Solani Aged Burley Flake Drug Store/Over The Counter: Half & Half Aromatic:  A couple of these got N/A because I have not yet sampled the style enough to give a definitive answer! -Scott |
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Buddy Springman
Number of posts: 1102
Age: 55
Location: Benton Township, SW Michigan
Registration date: 2008-06-01
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:54 am | |
| A similar exercise on ASP earlier this decade yielded this
http://nocturne.org/aging/touchstones.php
Buddy |
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shadrack
Number of posts: 187
Age: 36
Location: Syracuse, NY
Tobacco: Christmas Cheer
Pipe: Castello
Registration date: 2009-07-30
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:58 am | |
| Pure/Classic English: GLP Chelsea Morning
English/Latakia Flake: Esoterica Penzance
Oriental/Turkish: GLP Embarcardero
Oriental Flake: MC Tudor Castle
Virginia: MC Aurora
Virginia Flake: MC Christmas Cheer
Virginia/Perique: Escudo and Solani 633 (tied)
Lakeland Flake: GH CR Bright Flake
Burley: Peter Stokkebye Cube Cut
Burley Flake: Solani Aged Burley Flake
Drug Store/Over The Counter: Captain Black Royal
Aromatic: none
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Just for fun.....
The Benchmark Tobacco Company or Blender: tough call on this one. Single blender is R.Will and company would half to be McClelland.
Last edited by shadrack on Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:19 pm; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : Forgot about TC for Oriental flakes) |
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alfredo_buscatti
Number of posts: 2127
Age: 58
Location: Piedmont, North Carolina
Tobacco: Dark Flake, Escudo, aged Cumberland and Haddos, Cool Hand Fluke, Oriental Dusk, Old Dark Fired
Pipe: cobs, wire-brush rusticated Jobey, Milville Dublin (my best smoker), tortoise-stained GBD billiard with white acrylic stem
Registration date: 2007-12-16
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:40 pm | |
| Pure/Classic English:
English/Latakia Flake:
Oriental/Turkish:
Oriental Flake:
Virginia: HOTW
Virginia Flake: Marlin Flake
Virginia/Perique: Escudo
Lakeland Flake: Dark Flake, Dark Plug
Burley:
Burley Flake:
Drug Store/Over The Counter:
Aromatic: |
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Rugbysh9
Number of posts: 186
Age: 33
Location: Danbury, CT
Tobacco: PS LTF
McC 5100
GS FVF
C&D SP
Presbyterian
Dunhill SMM
Pipe: Nording Hunter Series ('96, '99, '06, '08)
Tinsky Poker
Sasquatch (Bannard) Acorn
Registration date: 2010-02-24
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:01 pm | |
| Pure/Classic English: Boswell Northnorthwoods
English/Latakia Flake: Penzance
Oriental/Turkish: EMP
Oriental Flake:???
Virginia: HOTW
Virginia Flake: FVF
Virginia/Perique: Reiner LGF
Lakeland Flake: GH BBF Scented
Burley: H&H Classic Burley Kake
Burley Flake: C&D Burley #1
Drug Store/Over The Counter: PA/CH
Aromatic: WOL OF |
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Justpipes
The Duke
Number of posts: 7935
Age: 54
Location: Randolph County, NC If you don't know, you wouldn't understand.
Tobacco: John Middleton Walnut, Prince Albert, GLP Cumberland, C&D Exhausted Rooster , add Carter Hall to the mix, as well as Perfection Plug Burley
Pipe: Brissetts, Kaywoodies
Registration date: 2007-12-17
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:35 pm | |
| I proably don't have a dog in this fight but the results will be interesting to read. |
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frankluke
Number of posts: 288
Age: 32
Location: Worcester, MA.
Tobacco: scottish cake
Pipe: ruthenberg sandblasted squat apple
Registration date: 2008-02-02
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sun Apr 11, 2010 3:53 pm | |
| Pure/Classic English: GLP westminster
English/Latakia Flake:
Oriental/Turkish: McC drama reserve
Oriental Flake: McC/PCCA tudor castle
Virginia: red ribbon
Virginia Flake: astley's 109
Virginia/Perique: McConnell scottish cake
Lakeland Flake: G&H best brown#2
Burley: mccranies old master
Burley Flake:
Drug Store/Over The Counter:
Aromatic: C&D autumn evening |
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pipetongue1
Tobacco Hoarder At Large
Number of posts: 2178
Age: 68
Location: Abington, Mass.
Tobacco: Bosun Cut Plug
Pipe: Tim Hynick POY
Registration date: 2007-12-14
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:00 pm | |
| Classic Eng.....Westminster Eng/Lat fl.......G&H's Bob's Chocolate fl. Oriental/Turkish McConnell's Oriental Oriental Fl......PCCA Tudor Castle Va.......SG"s FVF Va./Per........G&H's Louisiana fl./ Reiener's Long Golden Lakeland fl.......Bosun Cut Plug Burley.........Peretti's BPC.....Uhle's PPC Burley fl......Peretti's Somerset fl. OTC/Drug Store/ Aro. YUCK!!! Ken   |
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gandalfpc
Number of posts: 983
Age: 46
Tobacco: Dark Birdseye, Proper English, Stratford and anything tasty that comes within arms reach.
Pipe: Many pipes, all different, all favorites
Registration date: 2009-10-02
| | Subject: Re: Benchmark Blends "The List" *Please Chime In* Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:07 pm | |
| Pure/Classic English: GL Pease Westminster
English/Latakia Flake: Esoterica Penzance
Oriental/Turkish: McClelland Drama Reserve
Oriental Flake: C&D Star of the East
Virginia: Rattray Hal O the Wynd
Virginia Flake: Rattray Marlin Flake
Virginia/Perique: Davidoff Medallions
Lakeland Flake: Gawith 1792
Burley: Peretti BPC
Burley Flake: Peretti Somerset Flake
Drug Store/Over The Counter: Capt Black
Aromatic: Gawith Christmas 2007
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Just for fun.....
The Benchmark Tobacco Company or Blender: G.L Pease |
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