In my quest to understand the tobacco blends I'll be smoking, I've started my piping endeavors by trying out a fair number of blending tobaccos. How best can you understand Latakia if not by filling a bowl of straight Latakia?
Izmir Turkish was something of an impulse buy, I added it to my purchase not because of the frequency with which it appears in blends, but instead because of the existing reviews I had read. The one common theme: this is an exotic smoke.
My palate is neither nuanced nor refined, so understand that I am only able to offer a blunt description of this tobacco. I found it to be soft, with a mild spice and a waivering flavor that seemed to straddle some new line between cedar and pine. As a solo-smoke, this was excellent and I plan to enjoy it virgin quite often. However, being a cigar man in love with cedar, and being quite interested in making my own blends, I'm excited to throw this together with a few of the other tobaccos that are in my cabinet. Perique comes to mind. We'll see.
Izmir Turkish was something of an impulse buy, I added it to my purchase not because of the frequency with which it appears in blends, but instead because of the existing reviews I had read. The one common theme: this is an exotic smoke.
My palate is neither nuanced nor refined, so understand that I am only able to offer a blunt description of this tobacco. I found it to be soft, with a mild spice and a waivering flavor that seemed to straddle some new line between cedar and pine. As a solo-smoke, this was excellent and I plan to enjoy it virgin quite often. However, being a cigar man in love with cedar, and being quite interested in making my own blends, I'm excited to throw this together with a few of the other tobaccos that are in my cabinet. Perique comes to mind. We'll see.