I love the way the disdain comes out when you said "Manhattan Afternoon".

When i first moved to the Akron Ohio area i made a point to investigate all the local tobacconists. Like most they had lost all their pipe smokers and became cigar lounges years before i arrived in the area. This, however, left me with a unique opportunity, their entire pipe tobacco inventory pre-cellared. I found a tin of HH Pure Virginia seven years old and the rest of the HH line between five and six years old and many other brands and blends. I grabbed what i could afford and left plenty behind for any other adventurers who may be in Ohio.

Pipe smoker since 84, thank you for helping spread the word

Your channel is honestly my favorite KZfaq channel right now. Period. I love your approach, demeanor, class, and sophistication. Your voice is second to none. Please keep on doing the great things you're doing. Loving it!

Listening to you is just about as relaxing and enjoyable as smoking my pipe on the porch of my cabin in the mountains in Okanogan County Washington. Thank you so much for your constant good instruction, Dr. Harrelson.

Another good visit with you and the Old Carolina Pipe Cottage. Thanks for the videos, common sense and recommending certain tobacco blends.

I've come a long way in my pipe smoking journey, which I started just under a year ago. I've been able to learn about and discern subtle flavors in the tobacco I smoke and I can say with confidence that Virginia blends are my absolute favorite. You've given me a couple more to try out, thank you for your content.

Thank you! As a new pipe smoker, I truly enjoy this series learning about the different categories of tobacco. Your recommendations are very helpful in guiding my journey through the myriad choices of tobaccos. Many thanks sir. BTW, I throughly enjoyed your video on southern gospel music history, my wife (Bethany) and I listened together and look forward to moving back home to the south this summer where we hope find a church that has not forgotten that heritage. May God bless you and your family sir. Respectfully yours, Gabriel Roper.

Good sir, your videos are never too long! I always enjoy your content. Thank you.

I just ordered all four of your suggestions. Thank you for your help.

What a wonderful video

Thank you for the discussion of Virginias. You’ve got me interested in several that I need to pick up tins to try. Time to go visit your shop! 👍

Very good video. I am a new pipe smoker and this was extremely informative. Thank you.

Nice recommendations! Thank you for these great videos. One of my favorite Virginia based blends is MacBaren Dark Twist, especially during these winter months.

Loved the video as well as your "sitting room" !

Excellent, excellent vid OCPC. Thanks a lot. Have a great week-end.

An excellent work. you covered a lot of territory here. I'm going to view it again right now. Thank you for giving me a few new directions, regarding tobacco, to explore.

Love your observations!

One of my favorites bulk blends is Bullseye. With a few years of age is excellent. I have a few jars that are reaching 10 years. Maybe past their prime, but I enjoy the almost black coins. Dark fruit, deep flavor. Another excellent video. Thank you for your suggestions. Be well my friend. "The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

Thanks you for the recommendations, I also want to mention that I love your Carolina parakeet painting in the back. We had a real stuffed one at my university. Beautiful birds

Great list of blends. Some new ones for me to try too, thanks.

I have just recently fell in love with Virginia Blends and wasn’t very sure which blends to try out, only smoking Peterson Flake and Newminster N. 400. Now I’ve got some homework to do. Very much appreciate the hard work and knowledge you possess.

Thank you for a great video on Virginia blends. They are indeed my favorite by far. I, too, missed the Mcclelland tobaccos unfortunately. Very much looking forward to your future video on cellaring.

Thank you so much! Hoping to stop by your store next time I am in SC.

Well done sir! Look forward to visiting your store in the future!

Great video! Keep em coming!

Thank you very much for your video. Your videos are best in class in my opinion and very informative. Please keep regular content coming. Thank you!

Please do a video on cellaring. I’d love to learn more about it.

HH Virginia is a fantastic blend. Thank you for the info/video.

Glad I found your channel. These are all excellent suggestions and you're right the aging process does make a difference and MB ages very well you are correct I believe. Orlik Golden Sliced has been around for quite a while and is another decent Virginia enjoyed by some VA lovers. Glad you mentioned the Carolina Red Flake and Im cellaring the last two years batches (4 tins each) and I look forward to those. Hope you can do a review on the CRF sometime.

Great video and thank you for the information. I'll be ordering soon.

I'm loving the videos. Horry County is not far from me at all. I know it well. I live in NC. All of these blends are very good representations of great Virginias and I enjoy them all. I never really paid much attention to all the tobacco fields here in N.C. until I started smoking Pipe tobacco. Now I have much more appreciation for them and what they become. Thank you and take care.

Very interesting review. Thank you for sharing.

Love the videos! Learned quite a bit on this one. Think I’ll try that Davidoff Virginia soon. Thanks!

Alan, thanks for sharing!

Thanks you for the recommendations . My favorite is Full virginia flake from SG and Old Gowrie from Rattray"s !

Some of the best dialogue and reviews on the YTPC. I am in atlanta and will drive up when you open

I’m very glad KZfaq brought you up as a recommendation, I love your channel. Howdy by the way from Loris over here in good ol Horry!

Very interesting video on my favorite type of pipe tobacco. It is amazing how a couple years even on a Virginia blend can make such a difference. I do have several different Virginias in my cellar that are getting a few years on them and are very enjoyable, sometimes I like to add a few strands of blending Perique to a straight Va. blend to add a different dimension. For some reason I don't care for the popular Escudo, I do need to try the Davidoff Medallions though, sounds wonderful. I have stocked up heavily on Amphora Va. and with just a couple years on it, it is a blend that when I smoke it I say "yummy".

I'm a big fan of Virginia blends made by Peter Stokkebye. Luxury Navy Flake, Luxury Twist Flake, and Bulls Eye Flake are amazing blends.

Great content. Much obliged.

Great review on these tobacco blends.

It’s always nice to visit with you Mr Harrelson.

For what it’s worth, my personal favorite is a pure red Virginia from Dan Tobacco out of Germany. It’s called Malthouse Founders Reserve. It’s aged, so they say, in barrels previously used for malt whisky, though it is not a whiskey flavored tobacco. I simply love it!!! Not as available stateside as it was in the early 2000’s ( like all the offerings from Dan Tobacco) but if one cares to spend a little more it can be shipped from Germany. Worth trying if pure Virginia is to your liking.

Great overview Alan. Appreciate your thoughts on Virginias

Carolina red flake is the blend that got me into Virginia blends.

That glp’s windjammer is a good one I just got into. Amphora Virginia is great too

Thanks for that mention of horry County I used to live there

Allen I am a va smoker and appreciate your astute review. I have several on my cellar and agree with your assessments. In Atlanta and would not hesitate to drive up when you are open. Will also order from you when I restock some virginias.

Thank you Alan for the recommendations. My fav is Escudo Navy De luxe. Second option is Dunhill flake, virginia blends. Artisan's Blend, english mixture, by the way. Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷 South America. Nathan PY6 NO (My callsign Ham radio)

Another Great Video!! Excellent tobacco Review!! You are an Excellent Speaker!! Thanks for sharing........Jose from Texas

Yes sir, Dorchester is a superb blend. As well as Dunbar.

One I have come to appreciate recently greatly is Dan Tobacco's "Salty Dogs" Plug. It's incredible, while it does take some learning to cut the plug and rub it out, it is in my top 3 virginias and while it must have rum used in processing i notice none of it. I have been cellaring a lot of it since it's price has almost doubled in the last 12 years. A nice Very sweet, long smoking Virginia. It's not something I can take with me without tools but it's my favorite Virginia for at home or whilst camping.

As a young boy I would see tobacco fields around were I lived. This was in southern Ontario, Canada. A lot of people forget a lot of bright leaf comes from here (Cornell and Deihl use it a lot) , very different from Carolina red, but amazing with age, amazing chanel, would love to visit one day!

Was just in Mr. Boswells store yesterday. Great atmosphere and people.

Great review! I grabbed Manhattan Afternoon from your store. I look forward to trying it.

A very nice list indeed. One of the best Virginias I have ever tried for the PRICE is Newminster 400 superior navy flake. Great Video Alan!

Ok you got me. Set up an account with the cottage and bought Davidoff, HH, University flake and the Rattray's Red.

Always enjoy your videos, but I’m also liking the Carolina Parakeets on your wall there as well. Very cool

I just came across your channel and add it. I’m a fairly new pipe smoker and still looking for my favorite tobacco. Here in Texas, there are not many true pipe shops so mostly I shop on line.

Being from NC my grandmother and her family are originally from SC and they farmed tobacco when she was a kid. I'm partial to the red variety of virginia. I have McClelland tobacco to thank for that. Sutliff's red crumble kake is a good one and another virginia with a honey topping is C&D Interlude

Love the video. Liked and subscribed! Greetings from Chattanooga, TN!

Amazing

Great video. Your reviews are absolutely outstanding……

I would love to hear your take on cellaring tobacco too!! As well as pipe care and maintenance.

Love the videos keep it up, would love to see a video about cellering

Very informative as always. I learned something new today. Best of luck with the bricks n mortar store👍

Hello, I have greatly enjoyed your videos! My name is Josh and teach high school agriculture education in Ohio and also enjoy your agriculture commentary on southern agriculture. Cheers, Josh

Just ordered a Savinelli from the pipe nook keep up the great videos

I love the HH Pure Virginia!

If I could add a blend for consideration, it would be Peter stokkeby luxury bullseye flake. Virginia's mixed with perique and black Cavendish which make for an excellent smoke.

Here in the upstate we are partial Bob’s Wacky Baccy - BUT - Escudo is my favorite blend so far.

Good taste sir

Great presentation of my favourite tobacco type. Just stumbled onto your excellent channel and immediately subscribed - greetings from Greece!

I am In !! And going to be growing my own soon

Marlin Flake is easily my favorite

The reason the Davidoff Flake Medallion is sweeter than Escudo is the dot of sweetened black cavendish in the center of the coin. It is also available from Stokkebye who blends for Davidoff in bulk under their name of Deluxe Navy Rolls,

Thank you for this production. Marlin Flake, Escudo, Lousiana Red, Luxury Navy Flake, Davidoff Flake Medallions, Orlik Golden Sliced, Capstan Blue, HH Pure Virginia

This is a damn fine video

Just smoking hh pure virgina out of the box and really liking it. When it gets better with time im gonna store some

If you like Manhattan Afternoon, you should try Interlude (also C&D) if you haven't already. It's the same as MA but uses red Virginias.

Being from Virginia and just starting pipe smoking I wanted the Virginia blend now I know they’re grown in other states, but I also have roots in North Carolina and I’m living in Arkansas so just a little taste of home in my mind

As you are more about flakes, I'd like to add some of my favourits: Richmond Navy Cut, Orlik Golden Sliced, SG Brown Flake (all 100% Virginias with excellent quality); MacBaren Brown Sliced, Bell's Three Nun's (just wow with a lot of punch), McConell Old London Pebble Cut. In case you have a friend visiting Germany send him to Heinrich's pipe store in Cologne and get a tin of his #110 (Virginia with Perique and Kentucky, a bomb of natural aroma). Going funny with Virginia: Capstan blue known for its "ketchup" note.

I love trying different blends, but my favorites are always virginias.

I have not found myself to be very fond of straight Virginias. They seem to me to be light and airy with not much flavor. There is an occasion where I will enjoy some Luxury Twist Flake, but it's not frequent. University flake has a good aroma and starts out pretty good, but it tends to knock me off my feet when I least expect it. I'm a fan of the smokiness of English blends and particularly love them if they have some sweetness. My favorite tobacco is Presbyterian Mixture (oriental forward). I also love 3 Nuns (not sure if this is considered a Virginia or not). Thank you for the videos! I very much enjoy watching them.

There may be better blends, but my two favorites are Cornell & Diehl's Opening Night, and Peterson's Elizabethan Mixture, due to their simplicity if anything.

Thank you Mr. Harrelson for an interesting and informative video on Virginia blends. I'm curious as to your thoughts on stoving Virginia blends. Take Care, Gary

Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake is one to try if you like Davidoff. I buy it by the pound and cellar it. Absolutely fantastic stuff

If you haven't tried it yet, McConnell's Red Virginia (sometimes listed as Red Virginia Superb) in a v nice red Virginia with a touch of Perique (ready rubbed)

My grandfather and many of my relatives grew bright leaf Virginia tobacco.

Please try Capstan blue, if you haven't already. It's one of my favorite Virginia blends.

Fantastic stuff, love your channel! If I may suggest, your intro with music is way too long, cut it down to about 10-15 seconds.

I have got quite a few tins of Christmas Cheer. Some with quite some age!

Great video! I wonder about your opinion of Orlik Golden Sliced? God bless you and your family.

I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Hope to meet you in person one day!

Because there's room for disagreement, I'll suggest that the Esoterica blends easily rise to the hype: all of their blends exude quality. Naturally, not every one of their blends will have a flavor profile that each pipe smoker will welcome, but they're excellent representations of their various styles. For an exquisite straight Virginia blend, I'd say it that would be challenging to top Esoterica's Cardiff. It packs and lights with ease, it produces a full-bodied smoke, and the backbone of its flavor is wonderfully sweet.

Thanks for the discussion on Virginias. My favorite is Ye Olde Signe, an old Dunhill blend that is no longer made. Question for you: What is the shape of pipe you feel smokes Virginias the best? I have yet to find a perfect shape for them but wanted to know your thoughts on this. Thanks for your channel. I’m always eager to see new content from you.

I have all of those in my cellar except for the Petersons University flake.. Guess I need to give that one a try 😊

Surprising that you left out Full Virginia Flake in a discussion about virginia blends as that is an old stand-by. Course it's almost as impossible to get as a McClelland blend. I've got some that I've been aging for a decade and boy it's a real treat when I crack it open. A favorite of mine that you might want to consider is C&D's Briar Fox. A good combination of virginias with just enough burley for some complexity. Honorable mention: C&D's opening night.

Dr. I really enjoy your videos and look forward to each one of them. Question, why are the tobaccos called Virginia Blends if they are grown in the Carolinas?. Again thank you. Bob