Best tangy virginia + flavourful oriental?
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mix 5100 red cake with some blending turkish ribbon, both mclellands blends. figure out the ratio you like via trial and error but maybe start at 60% 5100 and 40% BTR.
Isaac
Isaac
All good. Also the grand oriental range put out by mcclelland is good for figuring out which specific oriental/turkish leaf you like the flavour profile of. I like the izmar leaf, or smyrna as its also called. The drama leaf i find subtle to the point of boring, rather lacking in drama. The different oriental leaves are grown in turkey, greece and georgia so the different climate/altitudes across that part of the world allow for different flavour profiles from what was originally the same seed stock, at least for most of them I think (samsun). Maybe someone more knowledgeable can provide some clarity there though.
Isaac
Isaac
I second that.
I have heard great things about Tudor Castle but have yet to try it. It's on my list...
Thomnas, the flavour in any blend I smoked for the first couple of years was sour and or flat for the bottom third and sometimes the second third, but that was more to do with the way I was smoking than the blends themselves. If you take the advice given here on drying, packing, lighting, sipping and using a cleaner to absorb moisture if it occurs, letting the pipe cool down before a relight etc you will find the flavour at the bottom of a bowl to be as satisfying as the flavour at the top and in the middle.
Isaac
Isaac
A few reviewers found that McClelland #24 has some tanginess. It's been so long since I had it I can't remember anything specific
-- other than I had no problem smoking it.
Let's take a little inventory of the responses:
-- other than I had no problem smoking it.
Let's take a little inventory of the responses:
- McClelland 5100 red cake and blending Turkish leaf (both McC)
McClelland Grand Oriental Series (8 blends)
McClelland Tudor Castle , Pebble Cut and Virginia #24
C&D's Oriental Silk bulk. If you like Perique too, then include Orion's Arrow.
GL Pease Cairo and Embarcadero
NYPC Bedloe's Island (Pipes&Cigars)
For a bulk option, you might want to try McClelland 025. To my taste, it is a full star better than tobaccoreviews.com has it. The Virginias are tangy nd there is very good Oriental flavor. Well worth a try IMHO.
Mike S.
Mike S.
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