It’s been a busy April at TobaccoPipes and it all culminated with the Chicago Pipe Show over the weekend. I generally like to feature regular production blends for the monthly Tobacco File and save special releases for the irregular, one-off columns. I was going to write one such column for Sam …

For this month's column, we have two absolute classics that have been gracing the palates of pipe smokers for decades; more than a century for our first blend, in fact. The imitable Aromatic Virginia introduced by Dunhill in 1912, now a staple of the Peterson lineup, we have Royal Yacht. Then t …

Two great blends this week, both entirely new to me: Amphora Burley Blend and Peterson Elizabethan Mixture. But first a little restoration update...This Duke of Dundee is now restored and I'm loving it. Very light, bent—perfect clencher. I'm all about it. The other two from my haul last we …

Well, hello. Back again for another What I Smoked This Week with Peterson’s Irish Whiskey and Captain Earle’s Ten Russians (European friends may know Irish Whiskey as Irish Mixture).  This was a very enjoyable week for pipe smoking—two new tobaccos and two new pipes. L …