Samuel Gawith & Co

For 207 years, Samuel Gawith & Co. have been producing fine pipe tobaccos that have been enjoyed by all walks of life in the UK. In a small mill in the mountainous lake district of Cumbria, the generations of Gawiths have been hand cutting, stripping, and blending their tobaccos.

From this region of picturesque settings, legends of the magnitude of Williams Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Kahn, have emerged. Samuel Gawith & Co. is another legend from Kendal. From the reign of George III to today, Samuel Gawith & co. have been using original recipes and machinery, which was brought by pack horse from Scotland to The "Kendal Brown" House at Canal Head. Following are the descriptives of the fine tobaccos, bended with Virginia, Turkish, cyprus Latakia, Zimbabwe, and Tanzanian leafs, which Samuel Gawith & Co. produce and The Sheffield Exchange, Ltd. proudly distributes throughout North America

Full Flake Tobaccos

1792

Best Brown

(Available in bulk only.)

This is a full strength, mellow tobacco comprising a blend of dark fired Tanzanian leaf. It is Gawith's best-selling premium grade flake. It starts as 7 lbs. of hand stripped leaf and goes through a steaming process prior to being pressed. The cake, having been prepared, is wrapped in a select leaf and packed by hand into a 12 inch square. This cake is pressed and left for a minimum of two hours. Then, the pressed cake is placed into a steam press where it is baked at full heat for two to three hours. The baked cake has then taken on 1792's characteristic rich, dark color. Its hardening occurs during cooling. Once the process of cutting the flake and adding a tonquin flavoring is carried out, hand wrapping and packing finalizes 1792, making it ready for rubbing into your pipe.

Best Brown is a favorite of pipe smokers looking for a medium-strength, gentle, and slow burning tobacco. It is manufactured using 7 lbs. of hand stripped fleu cured Zimbabwe leaf, wrapped with selected prime leaf. Steaming the tobacco creates a pliable leaf that is pressed into a cake and cooked for one to two hours. Premium leaf selection and cooking gives the desired characteristics of a medium-brown color and a distinctive nutty aroma which can only come from the experience and knowledge of the artisan making the flake. With only a light sweetener, Best Brown has no added flavors. This gives Best Brown a pleasant scent, even smoke and no tongue-bite.

Full Virginia Flake

(Available in 50 gram tins or bulk.)

Manufactured in the same way as Best Brown, this choice Virginia leaf is steamed to a pliable texture. Then, through hand bundling the leafs are pressed, where they remain for two hours under about 80 pounds of pressure. Four hours of steaming and eight hours of cooling under the pressure of the steam press gives the rich brown color and full flavor to the delectable flake.

Loose Tobaccos

Grousemoor

Skiff Mixture

(Available in 50 gram tins or bulk.)

Envision a hunt on the Moors, with the dogs scenting through the heather along the Lakeland banks as they track the grouse and pheasant, and you will possess the vision that inspired Samuel Gawith the create this cornerstone pipe tobacco of his young company. an original blend going back 200 years, Grousemoor conjures up an image of the Lakeland scenery with its accompaniments of seasonal scents. The blend and flavors that go to make up Grousemoor remains a secret that is only known by three people in the company. Using a combination of hand-stripped flue cured Zimbabwe leaf, Grousemoor is first steamed prior to being cut. After further steaming, to give Grousemoor its own golden color, the cut leaf is stoved and "rested." the final stage of production is the addition of a unique melange of flavors. Grousemoor is a must for smokers who want their days to have 'spring in the air'.

For centuries the small sailing vessel or "skiff" was used for leisure as well as light transport of tobaccos (and other products) to the distant Lake District, by gently sailing on a light breeze, also known as a "skiff." the remote Samuel Gawith's "Kendal Brown" house, located on the Canal Head, relied on horses and skiffs for its livelihood. Another Samuel Gawith original, Skiff Mixture is for the pipe-smoker who appreciates the fuller flavor of an Oriental Blend. The blending of a variety of different styles of flue-cured tobaccos gives Skiff Mixture its characteristic yellow and brown features. Its real identity comes with the addition of Turkish and a beautiful black Cyprus Latakia which gives the blend its full, rounded taste. Allow this aroma to sail on a light breeze around your head.

Perfection Mixture

Commonwealth Mixture

(Available in bulk only)

(Available in 50 gram tins or bulk)

Like many old world flavors, this blend was initially developed to satisfy the taste of a local tobacco connoisseur. This pipe smoker had searched the entirety of the Isle of Britain for a smoke that would satisfy his palate. By using a variety of brown and bright Virginian with a touch of Latakia and fine Turkish, Samuel Gawith steamed the leafs and added a flavoring of a hint of Vanilla to obtain what his fellow Cumbrian found to be a Perfection Mixture.

This Bicentennial full strength blend of 50% heavily steamed Virginian and 50% Cyprus Latakia, gives honor to the Tobacco Lords of Glasgow and the Commonwealth of Virginia which laid the foundation for the tobacco industry that built much of this country. The Commonwealth fulfills the desires of the demanding full flavoured smokers.

Curly Cut

Squadron Leader

(Available in bulk only)

(Available in 50 gram

A mixture of flue cured and dark fired stripped leaf which has undergone a steaming process prior to being hand spun into a rope of tobacco. The rope is then sliced on a four inch mouth cutting machine to give the tobacco its curly-cut characteristics. Prior to packing, the finished blend is dressed with vanilla, giving the tobacco a cool but flavorful smoke.

The Squadron Leader, named in honor of the men that flew and fought in WWI and WWII, epitomizes the traditional English tobacco. Samuel Gawith & Co. blend bright and dark Virginians together with Latakia and Turkish leaf to create this medium bodied smoke with a rich, slow burn.

Scotch Cut Mixture

(Available in bulk only)

A great English favorite made up of pure high grade flue cured leaf with just a touch of Cyprus Latakia and black Cavendish. The result of the blend needs no additional flavors and gives a good, clean, bold smoke.