Right now I’m smoking G.L. Pease’s Cumberland. It includes a twenty-year old tobacco which had lain unnoticed in a shed in Kentucky; when it’s gone there will be no more. From the tin:
Robust and possessing a subdued sweetness, Cumberland is a delightfully orchestrated suite of American tobaccos, featuring a rare and exquisite mahogany Kentucky, aged in bales for twenty years. Red and matured Virginias establish a theme; the Kentucky and a pianissimo of perique create the variations. Pure, natural tobacco flavours are harmonised by delicate arpeggios and underscored by deep, resonant tones. The coda is lovely and lingering—a perfect finish to a rich performance. Best savoured slowly.
Non-smokers can only wish they were men enough to enjoy such a treat.
