This is some delicious tobacco. I realize its been around a while. Often, I tend to dilute latakia blends. This one straight up is just really nice. I like how the Latakia floats in and out in terms of strength and leaves room for other flavors. For me, too many blends are constantly lat forward and I find that fatiguing. Im definitely going to have to get more!
Impressed With HH Latakia Flake
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I've been wanting to try it for some time, but never did because like you said, latakia can be really overwhelming if you mostly smoke virginia based blends.
I love HH Latakia Flake!
this was my post first time trying it
this was my post first time trying it
The lat is certainly there but so are other flavors. I often dilute lat blends. Conversely, I often add a little English or blending lat to virginia perique blends to add another layer of flavor.
Got a tin of this recently to see if my tastes have come around to Latakia. Looking forward to popping it as the weather cools.
If you want to try an exceptional VA (predominantly red) with a sprinkle of Latakia, I'd highly recommend GL Pease Laurel Heights if you haven't tried it already. The Lat is there, but in such sparse amounts that it enhances and entices the experience when it does peek-a-boo. I too, find Lat to be usually overwhelming and at times downright disgusting, but Laurel Heights is truly a fine smoking pleasure.
I like latakia a lot but found this rather one dimensional and unsatisfying. Much prefer G.L. Pease's Westminster.
HH Latakia Flake is one of my favorite blends. I stocked up on it a while back as I enjoyed it so much. I have a tin from 2015, and two more from 2016. It's very good with some age on it.
HH Latakia Flake is a quality, enjoyable, simple blend. There’s way less Latakia to it than you might presume from the name, IMO. It fills a niche which definitely isn’t “Lat bomb”.
I’ve got quite a bit of it in the cellar. Time to revisit it.
I’ve got quite a bit of it in the cellar. Time to revisit it.
Picked some up on a road trip last week. It was my first non-Virginia flake and I really enjoyed it!
Shhhhh, I don't need this one to slip into the "Oh look, lets hoard 15 tonnes of this one its that good" category.
I like it, but prefer their HH Balkan blend a great deal more. It doesn’t have a ton of Latakia in it, maybe no more than 25-30%, if that. You’d have to like burley in an English though because it definitely has that underscoring the experience, more so than HH Latakia Flake. It’s more of an all day English blend.
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Out of the HH lineup this one has been my favorite. IMO it has flown under the radar for years.
A few years ago, this was my intro to Latakia - I couldn't get enough. There was peaty Islay malt transitioning into cedar and tea, such wonderful flavours. I killed a Dr Plumb meer-lined pipe with it.
Haven't smoked it in forever; I have a 50g pack cellared and would have smoked it, but HH blends disappeared from the UK so now it's a unicorn here.
Haven't smoked it in forever; I have a 50g pack cellared and would have smoked it, but HH blends disappeared from the UK so now it's a unicorn here.
I'm glad that you found something that you like. I tried to like this one, but I just couldn't get excited about it for some reason. But, if you like it a lot, I would recommend buying some to shield against it getting locked out of production due to the company getting taken over.
This was a year ago but I still do like it. I plan to add some tins just in case. There are different lats I smoke more often but its nice to have this one around for a change.
It’s good and fairly mild, it’s balanced having Latakia be a key player but allowing room for the other tobaccos to come through.
You can try Old Ironsides from Dan Tobacco for a Lat bomb flake, or avoid it now you know it’s in the same vein but a lot heavier.
You can try Old Ironsides from Dan Tobacco for a Lat bomb flake, or avoid it now you know it’s in the same vein but a lot heavier.