Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Unwept, Unhonor'd, & Unsung: Part 1

 

(Smokingpipes.com) We spend a fair bit of time focusing on what's popular. Tautological as it is, well-liked things are well liked, and thus they get talked about, written about, explored in greater detail with more enthusiasm and more care, frequently, than those things that are not so well liked. Here on this very blog, for instance, one can find many a post about a popular pipe tobacco blend; we've got lists of favorite blends and we've got lists of best-selling blends. What's missing from this blog, however, is a tribute to those unpopular blends, those decidedly unloved tobacco mixtures for the pipe that are unfashionable, loathed, or simply overlooked and forgotten entirely.
Here it is then, in no particular order, our less than exhaustive, not scientifically accurate, short list of the most underrated, ignored, unhip pipe tobaccos... part one. Continued

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