Another common thing in Italy is to just buy the cigar (Toscano for instance) rub it out by hand, rehydrate it a bit, then smoke that in the pipe, or use it to cut other blends that need a little more body. It's also often used to "reset" a pipe that picked up some foul taste after being used to smoke particularly nasty blends that seem to persist no matter what.
Do people really do this or is it just an urban myth? If heard the myth lots of times, but I don’t know a single person who has done this. I smoked quite a few „Toscanellis“ and I can’t imagine smoking them in a pipe, just the thought makes me shudder. Also I can’t imagine that it resets a pipe, quite the opposite will be the case with their extreme and distinctive aroma. So the only thing it’ll do to the „foul“ taste is cover it up with another questionable taste (at least questionable in the way of traditional pipe tobacco).
@@rolux4853 Oh, they do it, mostly people that smoke both pipe and cigar. I do it myself from time to time and I like the taste, but it really depends on the cigar you use. I suggest Toscano's "Garibaldi" and "Originale", if you can find them. Some other members of the Toscano family can be quite diffictult to tame, even out of the pipe. I've never tried the "reset" thing myself, but it would surely take quite awhile to work. I think the main point is to take the "bad" taste out (usually a persistent aromatic blend). I doubt you could truly reset a pipe just by smoking, but who knows.
That’s gonna be a hit, In Florence Tuscany we call it cimette they are delightfull.But it’s a shame that in Italy we don’t have C&D’s pipe Tobacco.But in some way , I have to put my hands in that Italian Leaf small batch . Mr.Reeves... i hope you guys from C&D’s can gives us the opportuny to get Cornell & Diehl pipe Tobacco in Italy.
Nope, in Italy we do have C&D pipe tobaccos, the problem is that a 2oz tin is about 45 Euros, so the vast majority of shops doesn't even order it due to scarce smokers.
Sansepolcro is where the former C&D tobacco dealer for Italy produces kentucky for his cigars, as is produced throughout Tuscany, but it is a tobacco that is also produced in Veneto and Campania, from north to south Italy.
Thank you Jeremy! I've been hoarding my Sansepolcro because my finest pipe has tasted no other tobacco and I'm running low. I'll be stocking up when it's back and MAYBE give the 140 a shot. Not big on aromatics.
