Best and Worst Blends of 2023 

The music is a nice touch. Another great vid. Thank you!

Please do a short video on nicotine levels and what to watch for as far as high and low potency tobacco types and blends. So us nicotine lightweights know what to look for when buying a blend. Example: i like to have a pipe for flavor, relaxing and the act of having a smoke, not to get bombed by high levels of nicotine. I hate that feeling. i like low weak blends.

Love that you twisted your tongue on “Cringle Flake”… I had to try so hard to not say “Cringle Cake” in my review of 2022 blend😂. My 2023 just came in today and I’ll be trying it tomorrow morning. Cheers and Happy Sipping, Z~

Excellent choices! We can’t get most of them in Italy 🇮🇹 but they sound great. Just subbed you. Thanks and kind regards, SF.

Thank you !!! Merry Christmas !!!

Haunting was one of my favorite blends of the year, so delicious and have one stored away for next year. God bless you this year

Great list, will have to try some of those, especially your #1. This year the Virginia/Orientals really grabbed me. I have been loving G.L. Pease Geometrie, Temple Bar, & Cornell & Diehl Morning Light. I plan to crack open a 5 year old tin of Temple Bar on Christmas.

Hi Wilson, I’ve watched many of your videos but for some reason I’ve never subscribed to your channel but I’ve just rectified that now. I’m over the pond in North Yorkshire 🇬🇧 and I’ve been following the ytpc for over a year now and really enjoyed the company and reviews and just chat. Great reviews of your tobaccos the good and the bad and the ugly. Hope you had a great Christmas and all the very best for 2024.

Delightful list and always apprcieate you reviews and view. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Thank you sir, for yet another great video. Your opinion is much appreciated.

Enjoying your channel. Thanks for all the info/content this year!Having some hiking now. I smoke burleys with spice notes in the evening thinking the time is better suited for it, but reality is I don’t think I like the spice all that much. Got to find the right drink to go with it …cider or booze maybe. You mentioned pairing with coffee … I like that 4th generation 1989 blend Virginia in the mornings. Something about coffee creamer and Virginias-where it’s at for me.

Autumn Evening is my favorite. I shipped in 16 oz. to Japan where I live.

Some great blends on your list. Merry Christmas brother

Fun list as always. I’ve only tried the burley slices and I agree it is a great blend. Merry Christmas Wilson!

Good Evening Wilson 😊 Awesome list Brother 👏🏼 Thanks for Sharing 👍🏼 Appreciate your time and review and thoughts on the blends 😋 Have a blessed day and Merry Christmas to you and your family🎄Love ❤ Hugs 🤗 Blessings 🙏🏽 From South Africa 🇿🇦

I’m pretty new to pipe tobacco, but I’ve been buying and trying all sorts of blends. My buddy sent me an aromatic called ‘Christmas Blend’ from a company called ‘For His Pleasure’, and oh my, it’s like smoking mint chocolate. It’s delicious! I’d say so far my favorite blends are ‘Early Morning Pipe’, ‘Eastfarthing’, and that ‘Sleepy Hollow’ blend that was recommended on this channel. Delightful.

Two of my favorites from this year, neither of which would be considered a “new releases” and both being from GL Pease. Sextant and Sixpence. I loved Sextant from the first smoke so it’s become an old friend already! Sixpence surprised me however as I bought a tin of it last year and smoked through it. I didn’t hate it then but it didn’t blow my socks off either, it was kind of blah to me. I decided to give it another go this year and to my amazement I enjoyed it so much that it wormed its way into a more regular rotation for me! Maybe I got a bad tin last year, maybe I got a more matured tin this year, maybe my tastebuds changed a bit, who knows. Merry Christmas Wilson and thanks for all you’ve done for YTPC this year! Looking forward to new content on your channel in 2024 brother!

I tried Cringle Flake 23 over the weekend and while the taste is great I have never experienced a blend that gave me more tongue bite. Cheers to 2023 Wilson, and here's to many more happy smokes in 2024.

I'm pretty new to pipe smoking, been smoking cigars for a few years. Some blends I've enjoyed are Ashton Artisan's Blend, GL Pease Maltese Falcon, Gaslight, and Quiet Nights. Some I didn't enjoy are Haunted Bookshop and Warped Until the End. Not much of an aro smoker, but did enjoy Autumn Evening.

damn I miss McClelland blends. In fact, after they closed shop I just stopped smoking pipes for the most part. There will never be another Frog Morton.

C&D Folklore was my favorite purchase this year. The packaging was artistic but the 16 ounce bricks have sold out.

Beards looking great man.

I’m still enough of a newbie that all my tobacco purchases currently are to sample, to see what I like or dislike. I can tell you that I love Cavendish in a blend. More of that, please.

Man, I was bummed to not see a Scarecrow release in 2023. Hopefully we'll get one in '24, I've only got 1 tin left.

I have two in-opened tins of the 2023 Warped Blend I would be willing to trade/sell.

Love your content. What would your recommend for beginners for when it comes to Virginia type tobaccos. Thanks in advance and merry Christmas God bless

I love the video with your thorough critique. I have a question. Is it better to age big a tin of tobacco without opening it and then put it in smaller containers or is it better to age it in smaller airtight containers right when you get the tobacco?? Thanks for the videos.👍

I found some Peterson De Lux for $15 and bought 2 having never tried it. My wife and I both loved it so i will be keeping an eye out for some tins to age. Merry Christmas brother!

C&D's Oriental Silk got a positive rating number on Tobacco Reviews, so I had to try some. I should have paid closer attention to the blend's composition of mostly bright Turkish and Virginia, along with some Perique. It reminds me of a question I got when tasting at a chili cookoff. The question was, "Is it hot enough for you?" rather than "Does it taste good?" I like pepper and cayenne, but not as the main ingredients in chili or pipe tobacco. But, with a 3.42 rating on Tobacco Reviews, other folks must like it.

De lux navy rolls, and 4th gen morning blend. Bought pounds of both!

Anthology 23 , Atalaya, Kringle flake 22 & 23, cascadia trailhead, and many more lol.

I have enjoyed the Red Haunting by Warped.

Whale Song is good, but Watch City's Rouxgarou knocks it out of the park. One of the few VaPer's I'm into at this point as most are just too bland for me. No latakia on your list here; my tops for this year (and most year) would definitely be latakia blends, like this year's From Beyond, G.L. Pease's Samarra that I tried for the first time and loved, and Gawith's Commonwealth Mixture (another I hadn't tried till this year but is awesome). Cheers!

What is the background song name? I have noticed it before on another RU-vid channel I like.

You might like low country Edisto. Straight red virginia flake. Best regular production red virginia flake I have found.

Mr. Spurgeon it certainly is a travesty to covet a tobacco you do not care for, and I will solely take on the responsibility of taking that black xx off your hands sir 😂 It’s truly amazing how subjective our tastes are. I tried escudo for the first time this week. It is a most beloved blend. My thoughts? Mediocre lol. I was very underwhelmed. I wanted to like it. It was certainly not bad. But it is also will not be a staple for my vaPer needs.

C&D Blockade Runner is at the bottom of my list. Funny because Black Frigate is at the top. Weird.

I love me some Gawith blends! I like them all: the Englishes, the Virginia flakes, and even the Lakeland blends (love them!) I did NOT Like the black rope at all. Totally agree.

Hello, I am about to buy my first tobacco pipe and am wondering if the fact that we may try different tobacco flavors with the same pipe is a problem? I mean, cleaning as I understood it should be done after every smoke, but wouldn’t the previous flavor be still in the pipe or wouldn’t it affect the aroma and taste? Thank you.

Best blend- Star of the east Worst blend- chenet's cake

Best Gawith and Hoggarths Bobs Chocolate flake Worst Samuel Gawith Chocolate flake

i bought a tin of cringle flake last week to dry sorry dont care foe it

Wilson those are some awesome blends I love burley blends so I think the wessx blends amazing very hard to find I've never tried the Black xxx I have some crinkle Christmas blend from 2019 I believe I haven't open the tin this year for Christmas I'm opening my DAYS OF YORE FROM2016 I HAVE A TIN OF THE DUNHILL NAVY ROLL Thanks so much for sharing your Blends of 2023 a great selections happy smokes my friend all the best in 2024😃😃😃😃👋👋👋👋👋🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💨💨💨💨💨☕☕☕🎉🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊