Best Virginia/Latakia Blend?

mfresa

Suggestions?  I think we have covered VaPers pretty well, but not Virginia/Latakia blends.  I can only think of a couple, Mississippi River and Esoterica Margate.  Any other good ones out there?

motie2

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judandhispipe

I am not quite sure what you are getting at, here. There are vast numbers of blends with latakia that are Virginia based. Do you mean blends that use latakia only as a condiment - 5 or 10 percent?

mfresa

@judandhispipe , yes just virginia with latakia as a condiment.

mfresa

I guess nobody smokes this kind of blend, eh?

RockyMountainBriar

@mfresa
No Sir!
 Bleck, icky, nasty..bad..bad..bad.

judandhispipe

Well, there's the old Sail Natural, in the Ivory pouch, now discontinued, and MacBaren Latakia, likewise.I've got an old tin of the latter in rotation now, and have another one or two stashed. Still have some Sail Ivory, too.
I'm not sure how popular a category this ever was. Some of the old drugstore blends used to have small amounts of latakia, I understand, but those tended to be burley based.
Oh, duh - Presbyterian Mixture.

mfresa

Thanks, @judandhispipe , I will check out Presbyterian Mixture.  I forgot to mention Star of the East, which is virginia based, but the latakia in it is 40%, very strong.

Kmhartle

I'm not sure what the latakia percentage is but Savinelli Giubilio d'Oro is a Virginia dominant VA/ Lat blend. 

mfresa

Thanks, @Kmhartle I'll order some and give it a try.

Kmhartle

@mfresa ~ Let me know what you think. I think it has a very mild lat taste but I tend to smoke strong lat blends. I know taste is subjective but I find it to be a nice, mild, sweet and smokey blend. 

mfresa

@Kmhartle, will do.

mapletop

Planta - Mild English  is pretty good