Quote Originally Posted by Tobias Lutz View Post
Numbers 19-24 are the Hearth and Home samples; everyone received one. What you smoked was H&H Distinguished Penguin:

[IMG]The name existed before the blend. One of our employees suggested that we make a tobacco called “Distinguished Penguin”, so we took the challenge. As you might expect, this is a light/dark mixture (technically, it’s considered a Scottish blend) of Carolina and Virginia flake-cut, with Stoved Virginia, a light amount of Latakia, and a bit of unflavored toasted black Cavendish - a mild and slightly sweet smoke with character.[/IMG]
There's a lesson to be learned here about naming a blend before it exists....

Thanks again for all this, Tobias - it's really fun and cheering up my post-Brexit weekend!

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By the way, anyone know what Carolina actually is? A kind of Burley or ?