Quote Originally Posted by Bruck View Post
Chico - there are thousands of pipe tobacco blends out there, and individual tastes vary widely, so you pretty much have to do a lot of exploring to see what suits you. I would also recommend looking into pipe smoking technique as it's very different from cigar smoking (I'm bismokual - I do pipes and cigars, pretty much 50% of each).

That having been said, I keep lists what what I like and don't like, so here's my "like" list, in no particular order:
Esoterica Margate
Home and Hearth Black Horse
Sutliff Sweet Virginia
McClelland P.M.
Balkan Supreme
PS Cube Cut Burley
Newminster 400 Luxury Flake
Pretty much all PS flakes
Esoterica Penzance
Dunhill Nightcap
Newminster #1 Natural
Rattray's Virginia Flake
Esoterica Stonehaven
Rattray's Marlin Flake
Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding
Seattle Pipe Club Pike Place
G&H Louisiana Flake
SG Full Virginia Flake
Mac Baren Flake
Dunhill Ready Rubbed
St James Flake

There are a lot more that I like but just haven't gotten around to recording.

Also, a great resource is TobaccoReviews.com: The largest collection of pipe tobacco reviews on the internet., which has thousands of reviews, but also categorizes blends in pretty much every way you can think of.
Bruck, thanks for the necropost! I've been piping for about a year now and now know a lot of the recommendations you mentioned. Great list though, and good advice!