re: your top 5 Latakia blends.

[DubintheDam]

my top 5 would be

Nightcap
Black Mallory
Solani Luxury English (gold blend) highly underrated
Penzance
Red Reparre

I still have a heap of english's to try, quite a few in the cellar.

[fireman43]

Nightcap
MM 965
Black Mallory
Red Rapparee
Squadron Leader

Originally Posted by Mister Moo

Dag, James! I bought some of that when I was over there a while back and forgot about it. That is a pretty decent blend.

Yes it is.. Kicking myself for not picking up 8oz at the chi town show but i wanted to try it before dropping some bills for it. I just couldn't get it to dry out before i had to leave.

[paperairplane]

I just got a tin of Early Morning Pipe - and I am really interested in this. I have been smoking a fair bit of 965 and this is esentially the same, just a smidge less latakia, which for me, is good.

Nice cut, packs easy, burns well... this could be an all day every day.

[hyper_dermic]

#1 Balkan Sobranie
#2 John Cotton #1&2 Medium
#3 Balkan Sobranie 759

Last 3 are a tie for now, as i have just recently started smoking them alot, and the jury is still out on them
PCCA Orient, Solani English Luxury, and "our best blend" by smokers Haven

-hyp

[billhud]

For me, it's Penzance (#1) and Squadron Leader always, then whatever else is open which, at the moment, is FM ATP, Nightcap, 965, and HH Vintage Syrian.

[Aberlour]

Um, my favorites right now are Odyssey and Maltese Falcon from G.L. Pease.

[jm0307]

I do turn less and less frequently to Latakia blends. However, if I do, then it has to be:

1. Fox's Bankers Mixture (by far my favourite, also contains cigar leaf)

Other Latakia blends which I have enjoyed:

2. Davidoff Royalty
3. Stokkebye Balkan Supreme
4. Dunhill 965
5. Peterson's Old Dublin

[dogsplayinpoker]

1)Sams Blend C&D
2)Sunset Harbor Flake C&D
3)Davidoff Royalty
4)Frog Morton(lighter but good)
5)965

[mike t]

balkan supreme aint gonna smoke any other english with stuff this good and cheap in price whod want to mike

if i hated dunhills id be a lar
but why smoke a pipe
worth more than my car

made that up in the bath tub good huh?

[Vrbas]

No order:

Penzance
Frog Morton
Perfection

that's all i got.

[JohnnyFlake]

The following are my top five favs, in no special order. They are all distinctly different from each other, and IMHO, they are all exceptional! My mood usually determines which one I reach for! I have placed a "*" by the ones which offer the heaviest doses of latakia.

McClelland – Frog Morton Across The Pond
Dunhill – London Mixture
Esoterica – And So To Bed*
Germain & Son – Eighteen Twenty
Dan Tobacco – London Blend #1000*

[rx2010]

Butera Vintage latakia #2 is my favorite so far

have but yet to try: Larry's Blend, and (in transit) Squadron Leader and Royalty

I'll be curious to try those

[PipesandGOP]

1. 965
2. Nightcap
3. Commonwealth
4. Piccadilly
5. Odyssey

p.s. - and those are definitely in order

[Quick_nick]

1. westminster
2. maltese falcon
3. skiff mixture
4. red rapparee
5. squadron leader