Pipe Smoking Tobacco

There is a tobacco company in Germany, that has picked up the original recipes for the Charles Rattray's famous pipe tobacco blends, and has done an excellent job producing them, so that we pipesmokers can enjoy them today. Of course, there's a word to describe them "Ausgesiechnet", which simply means "Excellent" in the German language. I once had the pleasure of sampling some Rattray's pipe tobacco, when I was 18 years old working in a tobacconist's shop, a partial can of "Red Rapparee", which I remember was my first introduction to some absolutely exquisite Oriental tobaccos. What a treat! Up until then, I had only learned about fragrant, aromatic cased tobaccos. The good folks in Perth, Scotland, used to press, stove and blend their tobaccos, for many years. Now DTM (CAO/DAN) tobacco company is doing the same thing, the same way, with vintage English made tobacco presses--in a small town called Lauenberg, next to the river Elba, about 50 klicks from Hamburg, Germany. Their tobaccos continue the quality of the oringinal Rattray's blends, mixtures and flake tobaccos. Read the reviews, try some yourself, see what you like! Recently, our friends at www.OutWestTobacco.com have added those wonderful tobaccos to their inventory. I really enjoy the matured Virginia blends (Old Gowrie, Marlin Flake) and the grand old Oriental mixture Red Rapparee)....Hmmm--I'm going to have to call Gene again and get my order placed before I go on vacation! Gene's number at www.OutWestTobacco.com is 866-285-6046
Fruelich Pheifferauchen (Happy Pipesmoking),
Yours Truly, Eric Whitaker