Pipe Smoking 101 Videos – Introduction to Pipe Smoking

Here are some videos intended to help my fellow pipe smokers, especially those new to the hobby, get ahead of the considerable learning curve we face when new to pipe smoking

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G. L. Pease Maltese Falcon

Stylish, dark and alluring. Generous quantities of Cyprian Latakia are blended with matured red Virginias, exotic orientals, and just a little bright flue-cured leaf to offer a deep, full-bodied yet silky smoke with an intriguing sweetness, enhanced by a discreet and mysterious spice. Maltese Falcon possesses an exquisite balance - a wonderful all-day English style mixture.

Greg Pease definitly knows his craft. He has produced what is probably the finest line of pipe tobaccos available to today's smoker. The great blends of the past may be gone, but Pease has filled the gap.

Now he presents us with Maltese Falcon. Another English blend from Pease you may say, but hold off until you have smoked some. This one is very different from the other English blends that Pease offers us. It is a natural and unflavored English like its' predecessors, but the balance of the tobaccos is quite different. The genius of Pease's art is that while he uses the same ingredients the results are surprisingly different.

The taste and strength of Falcon is in the medium range. Now here is the difference. Imagine a symphony with all of the instruments clearly defined so you can hear the woodwinds separate from the strings and the brass. Ok, that is the way the other Pease English blends present themselves. You can taste (or hear if you will) each of the component tobaccos. Falcon, on the other hand, is like a Bruckner fanfare of dense orchestration. You hear everything played together as a unified whole, like a wall of sound rushing at you.

Falcon has but one taste and that is the entirety of it's component parts. It is a wall of pure English. The Virginias and the Orientals play as one. They play like The Vienna Philharmonic-magnificently. This is a great tobacco and can be an all day smoke if you wish, or it can serve as a late nightcap. Oh, the moisture level is a bit damp and drying out is recommended. Aging will make this blend smooth as silk. I suggest putting some away for the future when prices will be higher and tobacco may be more difficult to come by.