| Author | Message | ||
     John F. King Member Username: Kerryman71 Post Number: 25 Registered: 12-2006 |
I've have recently found that I am very fond of Latakia, smoking and loving tobaccos such as Penzance, Nightcap, etc. I have tried McClelland's Virginia No. 27 in my attempt to be a well rounded pipe smoker and found it really doesn't do much for me taste wise. Would I be better off with a Va/Per blend and if so what suggestions do you have? Thanks. John | ||
| Harvey Click Member Username: Fafhrd Post Number: 567 Registered: 03-2006 |
Why not try a Va faintly flavored with a little bit of Latakia? SG Chocolate Flake has just a tiny bit, and so does Mac Baren Latakia Blend (a nice Va coin cut with a very faint hint of Latakia). For a nice Va flake with more Latakia, but not as much as the blends you mentioned, try SG Balkan Flake. | ||
| David Dorn Member Username: Tacoeatingzebra Post Number: 82 Registered: 05-2006 |
big latakia fan here and i've grown to love va/per blends. some excellent examples are g.l.pease's fillmore and esoterica's dunbar. | ||
| Peter Doyle Member Username: Darkgael Post Number: 94 Registered: 03-2006 |
Try Cornell and Diehl's Easy Times - Virginia, Latakia and 20 year old Burley. Tasty. Pete | ||
| Joe Patterson Member Username: Zerovektor Post Number: 267 Registered: 01-2005 |
John, I agree with Harvey, but I would recomend 25th Anniversary by McClelland. I like latakia, but only in small doses -- one bowl a week is more than enough. Anniversary a favorite of mine and I'm a VA and Va/p fan through and through. | ||
| Juan Merello-Galasso Member Username: Sachs Post Number: 2 Registered: 01-2007 |
I have been smoking the Pirate Latakia tobacco by Diehl, but I feel that people arround get disgusted, probably because they do not feel tha famous vanilla smelling of some beginners's tobaccos smoking. Is it anything similar but eventually best tollerated by other ones? I am a pipe smoke for 54 years and I feel that the Pirate Diehl Latakia feels all my requirements. I had my beginner's years with those smelling cavendish but I quit. I have been by some years not smoking at all because of a lung cancer. I cured, and currently I do not smoke pipe while walking in order to avoid smoke to get inside my lungs. As a matter of fact I am also 69 and I think I have to enjoy life... Many thanks to everybody there and my best wishes for the future. | ||
| smokey strodtman Member Username: Smokey422 Post Number: 398 Registered: 08-2005 |
A couple of blends I can highly recommend are Marble Kake for a VA smoke and Anniversary Kake for a VA/Per. They both come from www.pipesandcigars.com. They're two of the Hearth and Home blends from Russ Ouellette. Russ is a great blender and his VAs and VA/Pers are especially outstanding. |