Lets Make a Top 5 (Latika Blend)

[rcstan]

Oh and FWIW it's LA-TA-KIA :P

 

[decigar]

1. Penzance

2. Nightcap

3. Margate

4. HH Vintage Syrian

5. Commonwealth
honorable mention Frog Morton across the Pond and London Mixture but more for the Orientals. Perhaps a list for another time? =)

 

[tarak]

Haven't smoked enough to give you 5, but u do enjoy:
1. Nightcap

 

[smokershaven]

My list is a little biased...
1. Our Best Blend

2. Krumble Kake

3. Exotique Mixture

4. In-B-Tween Mixture

5. Cognac Mixture
Happy Smoking!

Premal

 

[lostandfound]

Dunhill - Nightcap

Dunhill - 965

Seattle Pipe Club - Mississippi River

Smoking my fourth or fifth bowl of G.L. Pease's Charing Cross, and I like it.

Butera - Royal Vintage Latakia #1

 

[checotah]

Only 5?!? OK, no particular order:
Quiet Nights

Frog Morton On The Town

Nightcap

Westminster (GL Pease)

Plum Pudding
And,

Mississippi River

My Mixture 965

Magnum Opus

Chelsea Morning

to round out the top 10.

 

[latbomber]

1. Billy Budd

2. Nightcap

3. London Mixture

4. Charing Cross

5. Squadron Leader

 

[taerin]

After years of smoking, I am down to only two English I really enjoy smoking, so it will be a top two.
1. Penzance

2. Frog Morton (Original)

 

[dochudson]

1. Exotique Mixture

2. Frog Morton's Cellar

3. Great Hiatus

4. Captain Earle’s Ten Russians

5. Northwoods

 

[pitchfork]

1. Uhle's Bishop's Move

2. McClelland Jubilee

3. Dunhill 965

4. 3 Oaks Syrian
I'm still searching for a 5th, but I enjoy Penzance, Magnum Opus, Fusilier's Ration and Chelsea Morning.

 

[uberam3rica]

1.Esoterica Margate

2.McClelland Frog Morton On The Bayou

3.C&D Mississippi Mud

4.Esoterica Penzance

5.Spartans English(was made by P&C as part of their blending competition)

 

[pruss]

1. MacB HH Vintage Syrian

2. L.J. Peretti Cambridge Flake

3. 3 Oaks Syrian

4. Squadron Leader

5. Balkan Flake

 

[wnghanglow]

No particular order:
Frog Morton cellar *every person should try this blend*
Black duck *forget who it's by but it's sold at pipesandcigars.com*
Hearth and Holmes Larry's blend *my personal favorite*
Hearth and Holmes ten to midnight *a bit more mild than Larry's blend*
Dunhill early morning pipe * so popular on this forum*
Now I tried to get a variety of blends in my list, so if you hate Latika you might hate 4 out of 5 blends, an if you like Latika you still might hate 4 out of 5 blends!

 

[tjameson]

1. GL Pease Ashbury

2. SPC Plum Pudding

3. H&H Black House

4. H&H Larry's Blend

5. McClellend 3 Oaks Syrian
This might change as I open some tins of GL Pease. I just opened an '06 Odyssey tin and am drying the first bowl right now. It looks amazing and smells like no other Latakia blend I've tried.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

1. Black House
2. Black House
3. Black House
4. Black House
5. Black House
:rofl: Ok Black House is the only one I've ever had. But I really do love the stuff

 

[chervokas]

Love Lat blends, haven't tried enough yet to make a really comprehensive list, but of those I've smoked these are probably my top 5:
1. H&H Magnum Opus

2. McClelland Blue Mountain

3. C&D Black Duck

4. Brebbia Latakia Flake #9

5. Dunhill Nightcap
Surprised to see so many mentions of EMP. It's a nice blend that taste very oriental-forward to me. There's a little Lat in the tin note, but it doesn't much show up in the smoke to my taste. I like to add a small pinch of it to Blue Mountain to give the BM a little Oriental brightness to that blend. But EMP alone would never satisfy my Lat jones.

 

[bentmike]

Peterson's Old Dublin

Mac Baren Plumcake
Only two Lat blends in my rotation.

 

[drcarlo]

1. Rattray's Red Rapparee

2. Rattray's 7 Reserve
I only have 2.

 

[erichbaumer]

1. Nightcap

2. Westminster

3. SOTE Flake

4. 965

5. Ashton Consumate Gentleman

However, there are still so many to try! Looking forward to popping my first tins of Ten Russians, Sextant, Solani English Luxury, Ashton Artisan's... Not to mention the extensive TAD list!

 

[jbbaldwin]

1. Dunhill Nightcap
2. GLP Quiet Nights
3. Captain Earle's Ten Russians
4. Dunhill MM 965
5. Esoterica Penzance