"Scottish" Bag End

[WhiteCrown]

Are there an blends similar to Bag End from The Country Squire? This has been one of my favorite non-aromatics, but I have for some reason forgotten about it until recently. A few smokes of mine have brought it back into my thoughts, it was so smooth and almost creamy, but without being sweet. Nothing I have tried in the last year or so has exactingly compared.

Searching for "Scottish" blends often produces aromatic results that seem miles apart from it. Right now I am enjoying Picaddilly Circus, and it has some reminiscent creaminess but not quite as smooth, and I can't quite put my finger on what the similarity is, a particular oriental variety perhaps I should look for?

 

[ClenchedBilliard]

Druquer & Sons Loch Ness has that same Scottish blend complexity going on. I believe Blairgowrie does as well, but its been a very long time since I've tried it.

 

[Peter Turbo]

Haven't smoked anything like Bag End really, has a very distinct tin note that I haven't come across in other lat blends that I really, really like. For them saying its a "lat lovers dream" I find it to be very Virginia Forward, especially after some time in a jar. Bag End and C&D Vieux Carrer are my favorite light latakia english blends.

 

[brooklynpiper]

My recollection of this blend was that it was very VA forward— almost more a VA blend seasoned with the other constituent tobaccos.

I remember liking it a lot. Great for late summer/fall.

Unfortunately I can’t be of much more help with recommendations but I’ll be reading

 

[WhiteCrown]

Thanks for the replies. I've just started really exploring straight VAs in the past couple months. It very well may be the VA in Bag End that I liked, I just didn't know it yet.

As I start searching once again, I am noticing a trend of perique in almost all of the "Scottish" blends that aren't aromatic. In fact McConnell's Scottish Flake is a straight-up VaPer, and so is GLP Fillmore. The only one aside from Bag End I can find without perique listed is C&D Strathspey, any idea on how that one also compares? I can't figure out what Louisiana Perique from the USA has to do with the Scots or the Highlands though, and even Blairgowrie and Loch Ness have it.

Obvious solution: Just order more Bag End. I most certainly will, but I want to have a TAD more fun with it than that if you catch my drift...

 

[supdog]

You should try Cordial from C&D and Sutliff's Match 20 (Dunhill965). If you want something light on the lat, try C&D Star of the East Gold. I've never had Bag End, so I can't say how these compare.