Enough Latakia... I can't get enough..

[shanelktown]

I had to post this in the beginner forum because I think it's just me but right now I can't get enough blends containing Latakia... A true struggle of a pipe smoker...anyone else go through this phase?

 

[warren]

I haven't. I have a short list of blends that over the years have always treated me well. I'm not one to go hunting for something I really don't need. Very infrequently have I read a review that tweaks my interest enough to try the blend. But, I'm also a meat and potatoes kind of guy. Dull, but satisfied with what I have.

 

[nsfisher]

Not my thing, but every once in awhile a touch of it is a nice change of pace

 

[menuhin]

It is not exactly your case, but I read username 'BriarPatch' from tobacco review going through his search for his next Latakia blend after Dunhill stopped producing a blend.

http://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/1033/samuel-gawith-skiff-mixture

It seems he is now happy with SG Skiff Mixture.
I am also a Latakia person, but for me I am happy with what I have settled on and have with me until it may taste different one day because of blending inconsistency, or changes in manufacturing.

 

[darwin]

What do mean exactly when you say you can't get enough blends containing Latakia? There sure as heck isn't a shortage of them. There must be hundreds.

 

[Waning Embers]

Yeah, I went through that phase. Try C&D's Pirate Kake. Seventy percent latakia. :wink:

 

[shanelktown]

In the sense that is all I want to buy right now lol and pirate kake is on my next order.

 

[shanelktown]

I think the only thing right now breaking up my blends with Latakia is my occasional flake and my normal evening aromatic.... Other then that it's blends with Latakia all day.

 

[zitotczito]

I learned very early that I am also a Lat fan with Gaslight my favorite right now. So many to choose from and so little time.

 

[shanelktown]

I know it's awful I got some Sam gawith commonwealth and squadron leader on my next order and also tabac Sherman 536. I now will add gaslight to that as well.

 

[Waning Embers]

Balkan Sasieni, Mac B's Vintage Syrian, and Hearth & Home's Blackhouse and White Knight are excellent choices. I really like Balkan Sobranie, but most don't share that opinion.

 

[shanelktown]

Where can you get the Balkan sobrani?

 

[danielplainview]

I know what you mean. Lat forward blends are the only thing I've been smoking lately.
This should scratch your itch.

 

[mso489]

I highly recommend Nat Sherman 536 as a blending masterpiece, and it has Latakia, but it is not Latakia forward, in my opinion. It's great quality is the way the tobaccos are brought together. It's not super strong, and it is more an elegant that a powerful blend, to me. You could aways kick it up with a little (or a lot of) blending Latakia.

 

[Waning Embers]

Catch it on ebay from time to time.

 

[shanelktown]

That's a bummer... But the blending lat is now on my list and yes that nat Sherman blend I sampled yesterday and it wasn't lat heavy but it was there enough for my enjoyment.

 

[Waning Embers]

McClelland's Blue Mountain is an excellent substitute for Sobranie. Also called Balkan Blue.

 

[cobguy]

I love the stuff ... and there are dozens of good Latakia blends.
A few in current rotation are:
SPC Plum Pudding

F&K Lancer Slices

GLP Gaslight

H&H Spectre
Happy hunting! ::

 

[shanelktown]

Pm sent if you still have it

 

[garzanium]

I smoked pipe years ago, then stopped for a few years.
I use to enjoy heavy latakia blends, and even latakia by itself only.

Today, I do bbq competition, cook quite a bit with open fire, and camp with a camp fire ect

The smell completely turns me away from smoking latakia heavy blend.
So yes, went through that phase!