The wizards at C&D have shoved and insane about of latikia in a blend and made it smooth.
The flavor of latikia is up front, smelling your hands after rubbing the kake out is delightful. Like a good smoker going outside.
First light the flavors were amazing. Deep dark salty smokey goodness. No creastoe off flavors some latikia heavy blends can have. It loves a slow sip with a thick pipe to get the most out of it. Tangy spicy flavors that will pick up into a bite if you sip a beer with a hot bowl turn into tangy sweet and sour flavors if you rest enough to need constant relights.
Have one pound resting while I finish this tin off. All my other tins have to be rejared due to my slow smoking pace, while my 1st 2 oz can of this is almost gone.
I have a few others I want to get a lifetimes worth, but I intend to not get under 8oz ever and store 5 lbs before stopping.
Hopefully find another tobacco I find equal, it's like Red Rapparee had a deeper flavor, like star of the east without oriental and Turkish instead.
Hmm this with a oriental leaf instead of Turkish might also be delicious.
Though it smokes good in a cob, my love with this is a briar churchwarden, allows that smoke plenty of time to cool with the slightest sip is delightful either retro inhaled or a French inhale.
I do hope to find something with oriental tobacco like this. That nose tingle from those tobacco's is all that is missing in this to make it the best tobacco I could imagine.
So far getting back into pipes and several tobaccos of all types sampled, this is my number 1, Red Rapparee and Peterson's Evening blend and star of the east flakes all tying for 2nd.
I do not like most aero's, cherry makes me sick. If you love cherry tobacco this might do that to you.
