Seattle Pipe Club Christmas Spirit 2022
(4.00)
Christmas Spirit - Nothing says Christmas Spirt like Plum Pudding. The traditional centerpiece of holiday celebrations since the 17th century. America's most popular Balkan, Christmas Spirit is Joe's gift to luxury tobacco fans everywhere. Our limited 2022 edition of Plum Pudding Special Reserve is aged 30 days in VSOP Cognac barrel, pressed and crumble cut plug cut. A chunk of Cognac barrel rests in every tin. Merry Christmas from the Seattle Pipe Club.
Limited to 1200 tins
Notes: A limited-edition version of Seattle Pipe Club's renowned Plum Pudding pipe tobacco, Christmas Spirit 2022 is a holiday mixture perfect for the season. It builds upon a foundation of Plum Pudding Special Reserve — complete with mature Orientals, Latakia, Virginias, perique, and cavendish — and is aged for 30 days in VSOP (Very Superior Old Pale) cognac barrels, before being pressed and cut into a flavorful crumble plug. Only available here at Smokingpipes.
Details
Brand | Seattle Pipe Club |
Series | Plum Pudding |
Blended By | Joe Lankford |
Manufactured By | Sutliff Tobacco Company |
Blend Type | English |
Contents | Black Cavendish, Latakia, Oriental/Turkish, Perique, Virginia |
Flavoring | Cognac |
Cut | Plug |
Packaging | 4 ounce tin |
Country | United States |
Production | No longer in production |
Profile
Strength
Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Medium
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Reviews
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Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 Reviews
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 07, 2022 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
The Cyprian Latakia provides a lot of smoke, earth, wood, floralness, herbs, vegetation, and light spice as the lead component. The sun cured Orientals offer plenty of earth, wood, floralness, spice, vegetation, buttery sweetness and dry sourness as important supporting players. The stoved and red Virginias produce a fair amount of fermented tangy ripe dark and stewed fruits, grass, earth, wood, bread, tart and tangy citrus, sugar, mild floralness with light barbecue and salt. They are close to equaling the effect of the Orientals. The earthy, woody, spicy, plummy, raisiny, figgy perique is a couple of steps behind the Virginias, above the condiment level. The sugary black cavendish is a position below the perique. The VSOP Cognac moderately tones down the tobaccos as they compliment them. The strength and taste are medium. The nic-hit is close behind them. No chance of bite or harshness, and has a few small rough notes. This mildly moist plug easily breaks apart, and as per my usually custom, I did not dry it. Well balanced and complex, it burns cool, clean and slow with a very consistent tangy sweet, fruity, creamy, smoky, spicy, mildly sour, rather rich flavor that extends to the moderately lingering, pleasant after taste. The room note is a notch stronger. Leaves little moisture in the bowl, and requires some relights. Can be an all day smoke depending upon your experience. Four stars.
-JimInks
-JimInks
Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Dec 19, 2022 | Mild to Medium | Mild | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
Tin 477 of 1200, dated 10/21/22, has tin notes of smoky fermentation, alcohol, and sweet fruit. The black and dark brown firm crumble plug is somewhat moist but breaks apart and rubs out with a little effort. Burns slow with a few extra relights. The strength is mild to medium and nic is mild to medium. Flavoring is mild sweet alcohol and dissipates rather quickly. Taste is medium and consistent, with complex notes of smoky wood, dry earth, sour herbs, spicy, floral vegetation, stewed spice fruits, sweet grass, bread, mild tart sugar plum, a lemon peel background note, and a spicy retro. Latakia and Orientals are leading with Virginias Cavendish and Perique supporting when needed. Flavoring (VSOP) starts off a supporter but fades to the background quickly and then disappears. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is great.
Pipe Used:
1981 Peterson Mark Twain
PurchasedFrom:
smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked:
2 months