english blends w/o latakia?

[MascaraSnake]

I'm ideally looking for one that just contains Perique as the "condiment" tobacco, but just a list of blends w/o the seemingly omnipresent latakia would be nice.

[designwise1]

Presbyterian Mixture and Red Raparee are both considered English blends. I don't think either of them have Latakia. I could be wrong, however
Look for Virginia/Perique (VaPer or English/Oriental) blends.

Heres a couple of suggestions in the Oriental field.

Cornell & Diehl Shandygaff Burley, Perique, and Turkish this is bulk stuff. Great blend IMHO

GLPease Cairo Virginia, Perique, and Orientals. Can't go wrong with any Pease blend, very subtle smoke.

Hope that helps

Root

[NCatron]

Correct me if I'm wrong (and I'm a newb to pipes so I probably am) but isn't the definition of an English pretty much that it has Latakia?

[designwise1]

I had no idea this was so complicated.

Here's what the Dark Lord has to say on the subject...

There seems to be distinction made by some between "English mixture" and "English tobacco," the former indicating a blend of Latakia and other things, the latter suggesting that the tobacco isn't adulterated with chemicals.--GL Pease, 2002-12-20

To my mind, an English blend has a significant portion of Virginia backing up the Latakia, and orientals serve as a spice.--GL Pease, 2002-09-07 (from his FAQ)

"English" is particularly slippery. There seem to be two basic classifications that adopt this description. The first, probably the oldest, is a tobacco that contains only tobacco and a restricted level of ammendments or additives in accordance with the purity laws that were extant up until the late 1980s.

"English Mixture," on the other hand, the word mixture being important, has been useed to denote a blend containing Latakia for quite a long time, at least in the US. In the UK, such a blend was more often simply referred to as a "Mixture."--GL Pease, 2005-08-10

[NCatron]

Originally Posted by designwise1

Here's what the Dark Lord has to say on the subject...

Thanks for the research. Some interesting food for thought.