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Sixpence 8oz
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- Components: Virginia, Perique, Dark Fired Kentucky
- Family: Virginia
- Cut: Flake
About This Pipe Tobacco
You enter the dark paneled room, its walls lined with ancient books. An antique table stands beside a leather club chair. Upon it, next to a small silver coin, an open tobacco tin entices you with an aroma deep, rich, authentic. You fill your bowl, strike a match. The first puff stops time as the smoky magic weaves its spell.
G. L Pease's Sixpence. The mystery continues.
Customer Reviews
A Seven-Year Revelation
August 21, 2026
By:
Campbellj4
Product: G. L. Pease Sixpence 2oz
had aged to a beautiful deep mahogany, with the original flake structure still evident but soft enough to break apart easily. I gave it a medium rub, leaving some chunky pieces intact.
The cold draw was gorgeous: Virginia citrus, fruit and spice.
The char light was refined leather, dark fruit and spice. Once properly lit, the Virginia opened into sweet grass and hay, dark fruit and baking spice. The room note was already magnificent, with a honeyed Graham cracker quality that made me wish I could experience the room note from across the room.
As the first quarter developed, the retrohale revealed soft spice while the side smoke became honey Graham cracker. Slowing the cadence brought out Perique, first as mouth-filling spice and then as stewed fruit. Citrus gradually shifted from bright citrus toward deeper orange.
The second quarter was extraordinary: orange-spiced tea with honey Graham crackers. The citrus became richer and deeper, the honeyed biscuit character moved into the draw, and an almost perfume-like quality appeared throughout the smoke.
By the third quarter, the Perique and Dark Fired Kentucky had stepped forward. Spice dominated the front of the palate while the Virginias remained underneath, and the retrohale was fermented fruit and spice. After allowing the pipe to cool and relighting, the perfume became deeper and noticeably influenced by the Perique and Dark Fired Kentucky.
One of the most interesting discoveries for me was finally being able to identify the fruit aspect of Perique as something distinct from its familiar peppery/spicy character. The fruit here was fermented, stewed and dark, and it interacted beautifully with the Virginias.
The tobacco was complex enough that it continually changed before my palate could become fatigued. That complexity kept the bowl interesting all the way down.
I also smoked this in a Punto Oro pot with a somewhat unusual internal V-shaped chamber. As the bowl narrowed toward the bottom, the Perique and Dark Fired Kentucky seemed to become more concentrated and assertive, while the perfume character deepened. Whether that was chamber geometry, combustion, or simply the progression of the blend, the effect was unmistakable.
And then I discovered why Sixpence had been reminding me so strongly of Penny Farthing: they share the same Virginia, Perique and Dark Fired Kentucky components. The difference in cut—Sixpence being a soft, broken flake and Penny Farthing a ribbon—makes for a fascinating comparison.
GL Pease is a master blender. This isn’t simply a blend with a lot of flavors; it is a blend where those flavors move, interact and reveal themselves in sequence.
Seven years of aging clearly treated this tin very well.
I am absolutely putting more Sixpence in the cellar....Read More
The cold draw was gorgeous: Virginia citrus, fruit and spice.
The char light was refined leather, dark fruit and spice. Once properly lit, the Virginia opened into sweet grass and hay, dark fruit and baking spice. The room note was already magnificent, with a honeyed Graham cracker quality that made me wish I could experience the room note from across the room.
As the first quarter developed, the retrohale revealed soft spice while the side smoke became honey Graham cracker. Slowing the cadence brought out Perique, first as mouth-filling spice and then as stewed fruit. Citrus gradually shifted from bright citrus toward deeper orange.
The second quarter was extraordinary: orange-spiced tea with honey Graham crackers. The citrus became richer and deeper, the honeyed biscuit character moved into the draw, and an almost perfume-like quality appeared throughout the smoke.
By the third quarter, the Perique and Dark Fired Kentucky had stepped forward. Spice dominated the front of the palate while the Virginias remained underneath, and the retrohale was fermented fruit and spice. After allowing the pipe to cool and relighting, the perfume became deeper and noticeably influenced by the Perique and Dark Fired Kentucky.
One of the most interesting discoveries for me was finally being able to identify the fruit aspect of Perique as something distinct from its familiar peppery/spicy character. The fruit here was fermented, stewed and dark, and it interacted beautifully with the Virginias.
The tobacco was complex enough that it continually changed before my palate could become fatigued. That complexity kept the bowl interesting all the way down.
I also smoked this in a Punto Oro pot with a somewhat unusual internal V-shaped chamber. As the bowl narrowed toward the bottom, the Perique and Dark Fired Kentucky seemed to become more concentrated and assertive, while the perfume character deepened. Whether that was chamber geometry, combustion, or simply the progression of the blend, the effect was unmistakable.
And then I discovered why Sixpence had been reminding me so strongly of Penny Farthing: they share the same Virginia, Perique and Dark Fired Kentucky components. The difference in cut—Sixpence being a soft, broken flake and Penny Farthing a ribbon—makes for a fascinating comparison.
GL Pease is a master blender. This isn’t simply a blend with a lot of flavors; it is a blend where those flavors move, interact and reveal themselves in sequence.
Seven years of aging clearly treated this tin very well.
I am absolutely putting more Sixpence in the cellar....Read More
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The dfk surprised me not harsh
July 28, 2026
By:
SoftCell
Product: G. L. Pease Sixpence 2oz
ver smoked it before in an American blend, meaning it doesn't grab you right away and say "look at me look at me" in a hysterical harsh way, instead it seems to work with the dark virginias and the perique which by the way is not overly earthy here either. The result is a newer to me flavor. This is pretty good stuff. The perique and the Virginia impart sweetness and plummy-ness and the dfk raises it to another level with a sustaining platform of supportive darker flavors thus enhancing the darker Virginia. I would be surprised if there isn't some type of topping on here.
If you don't like how c&d or glp's use dfk but feel like experimenting I'd start here. I might just have to buy another tin of this. It's Tasty. Mine was 1.5 yrs aged....Read More
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Excelent Vaperky
July 26, 2026
By:
bluegriff
Product: G. L. Pease Sixpence 8oz
about 10 minutes before packing a bowl. I also recommend a tall, narrow bowl. I have been smoking this blend in a Dagner poker cob; it smokes like a dream. Rubs out very easily, just rolling it around in the hand, and is not very picky with how you pack. I use the three-step method, and it has not failed me.
This is a dark Virginia blend. It is not green and grassy like lighter Virginias. I have yet to put any in the cellar, but I will soon. I can only imagine what this blend would be like with over a year on it. My 4.5 would easily go to a 5. The taste is complex. I see where they talk about the taste being reminiscent of a library of old books and whatnot. Kentucky brings a little fullness and a very nice body to the blend.
If you have held back on smoking/purchasing this blend, just buy it! You will thank me later. Has not bitten me once, and it can be forgiving to a fast smoker. Although I suggest taking your time with it. Three small sips followed by a nice retrohale is just divine. I would lean towards this being an all-day smoke, given how gentle it is on the tongue and how unpowerful its flavor is. I've paired with Mexican lagers, green tea, and even Crystal Light-flavored water, and nothing has taken away from this guy's flavor. Just a nice reflective blend. Oh, and it will be used to break in pipes; the ash on this tobacco is very nice. Not as good as, say, Sunset Harbor Flake, but a worthy contender to break in....Read More
This is a dark Virginia blend. It is not green and grassy like lighter Virginias. I have yet to put any in the cellar, but I will soon. I can only imagine what this blend would be like with over a year on it. My 4.5 would easily go to a 5. The taste is complex. I see where they talk about the taste being reminiscent of a library of old books and whatnot. Kentucky brings a little fullness and a very nice body to the blend.
If you have held back on smoking/purchasing this blend, just buy it! You will thank me later. Has not bitten me once, and it can be forgiving to a fast smoker. Although I suggest taking your time with it. Three small sips followed by a nice retrohale is just divine. I would lean towards this being an all-day smoke, given how gentle it is on the tongue and how unpowerful its flavor is. I've paired with Mexican lagers, green tea, and even Crystal Light-flavored water, and nothing has taken away from this guy's flavor. Just a nice reflective blend. Oh, and it will be used to break in pipes; the ash on this tobacco is very nice. Not as good as, say, Sunset Harbor Flake, but a worthy contender to break in....Read More
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Full and Rich
July 10, 2026
By:
SingleLeaf
Product: G. L. Pease Sixpence 2oz
n paired with the DFK lends to greater strength than one might anticipate. A blend that would lend itself to a good book with just enough complexity to stay interested but not so much as to distract....Read More
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Dark fired ruined it for me
April 27, 2026
By:
Brett E.
Product: G. L. Pease Sixpence 2oz
e except Virginia Cream and now this....Read More
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