The King Street Emporium

Ellipsis Flake

Virginia

An ellipsis is the punctuation of the unfinished thought, the trailing pause that implies more than it states. It is a fitting name for the fourth entry in the G.L. Pease Zeitgeist Collection, a series Pease describes as a celebration of avant garde and rebellious themes of the modern era. Each blend in the collection is oriented around a particular cultural or artistic idea rather than a geographic or historical reference. The blend is built on Virginias as the foundation, with Oriental leaf, Perique, white Burley, and black Cavendish as supporting components. The Orientals and Perique share the condimental role without Latakia present to define the profile, which places Ellipsis in a relatively rare category of Virginia blends where those two leaf types work alongside each other rather than one serving as a background note to the other. Pease's stated inspiration was surrealism and the musical concept of the tritone, the interval composers once called the devil's interval for its unresolved tension. The blend is pressed and cut into flakes. Medium strength and body. Ages well.