Samuel Gawith 1792 Flake

[treecutter]

How many of you have tried this superb tobacco? It is a fantastic smoke unlike anything else and one of the few commercial blends I will purchase since I have been smoking WLT. It has incredible strength and flavor. The other day while reading emails, an email from smokingpipes.com announced that they had just got some in, ( I was on a list waiting for this tobacco for over 2 years to make it's way here. ) I ordered it immediately, and can you believe it was sold out within an hour and a half. Since I have my tin on it's way I dug some remaining 1792 from my cellar ( I only have enough left for about 3 more smokes in a Peterson 317 ) and smoked it tonight. Excellent tobacco is an understatement for this blend. I would love to try to blend this stuff from WLT. There's always something to dream about. Happy smoking to all my pipe friends out there.

 

[Homegrowngoodnes]

Better watch out, blending can be addictive!

 

[Radagast]

It's hard enough for me to get hold of decent commercial tobacco of common varieties so I can only imagine how nice that rare one might be.
I will be interested in your experiment to reproduce this. Best of luck, keep us updated and let us know if we can help.

 

[deluxestogie]

That particular, commercial blend appears to be Virginia cooked into Cavendish, then blended with some quantity of a dark fire-cured leaf, and cooked again. It is artificially flavored with the addition of tonka bean extract, which imparts a vanilla-like aroma (from its coumarin, similar to that of deer tongue). The final blend is then pressed and sliced.

Bob

 

[Old Gasman]

How many of you have tried this superb tobacco? It is a fantastic smoke unlike anything else and one of the few commercial blends I will purchase since I have been smoking WLT. It has incredible strength and flavor. The other day while reading emails, an email from smokingpipes.com announced that they had just got some in, ( I was on a list waiting for this tobacco for over 2 years to make it's way here. ) I ordered it immediately, and can you believe it was sold out within an hour and a half. Since I have my tin on it's way I dug some remaining 1792 from my cellar ( I only have enough left for about 3 more smokes in a Peterson 317 ) and smoked it tonight. Excellent tobacco is an understatement for this blend. I would love to try to blend this stuff from WLT. There's always something to dream about. Happy smoking to all my pipe friends out there.

Is it not possible to find a supplier here in the UK who will post to you or are your import duties prohibitive?

 

[furryfreek]

Is it not possible to find a supplier here in the UK who will post to you or are your import duties prohibitive?

I expect you'd end up paying UK tobacco duty on top of any import duties (and maybe handling fees). UK manufacturers have to pay the duty for tobacco products as soon as they're made if intended for domestic sale, and I'm not sure there's a way to claim it back once paid. The sale of anything for export is probably arranged months/years ahead of manufacture to international suppliers.

 

[Radagast]

Treecutter and I are in Canada. I'm in the province of Ontario. I don't have any knowledge of tobacco prices in the other provinces, but here a tin of Captsan Navy Cut flake costs around $90 CDN. Compare that to 16.95 USD on smokingpipes.com. I can only guess that a tin of 1792 and other specialties like it would be so exorbitantly expensive to buy here that it wouldn't make much sense to keep in stock for the few tobacconists still operating.

 

[Knucklehead]

I would love to try to blend this stuff from WLT. There's always something to dream about.

That looks like a doable blend from WLT leaf and some threads here on the forum. Keep us posted!