So, this is a three-parter, one of three here, for my tobacco I tried at the Pipe Party at my Tinder Box. I'll keep 'em somewhat short...

Someone was smokin' some damn stinky Lat blend, and it happened to be kind of the quirky, antisocial dude named Kevin I like trading witticisms--with a big grin, kind of like, "I dare you," he handed me his two year old tin of C&D Pirate Kake.

It smelled somewhat sweet but Lat-like in the can, and so I chunked off and rubbed out a bit of the fine stuff. It rubbed out pretty nicely, and was a great dryness (he knows his stuff). It has a decidedly bold but subdued flavor, very Lat-like, good Cyprian, but also had a nice sour grape top note to it to round it off. It smoked extremely well, right down to the last bit of dottle, and I couldn't have been more pleased. Of course, as two of us smoking it became three, people in the place got pretty "sided" about it, and the "aro-guys" started moving farther and farther away from us, and we all had a good chuckle about it.

This seems to be a "you love it or hate it" kind of tobacco with folks, and I figure for a nice cavendished Burley, this stuff will solve a good Lat craving right quick. Thick, bold, but not overpowering, waxy and good nose. I must have loved it, for I had three bowls of the stuff.

One I'm going to get more of, without a doubt.

I've got a jar of 14 year old PK in my cellar. Dag-nab-it, now I just gotta smoke a bowl after reading this. Not that that's a bad thing. I'll finish the evening nicely after the Brown Irish X and Black Irish X I had earlier.

Kyle, I got some of this stuff from puros_bran and I LOVE IT. You nailed it with the grape smell. It's like committing to sit in a couch not knowing how deep you will sink. FTW and just enjoy the lowering of the boom. Nobody is gonna shovel dirt on you. I will worry about getting up and out when it's time. For now, I will let myself be taken to a deep place that is true and brilliant. Laugh, but it's true, at least for me. I LOVE this tobacco!

Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! The Couch'baccy Raiders! (In Latakia Slumber We Trust)



(...sorry JT, had to borrow it...)

Buy it now. It only gets better with age.

I always have some Pirate Kake in the tobacco cabinet. I just love it as an outdoors smoke. Curiously, wife likes aroma.

I finally tried this for the first time today, and I really enjoyed it. I'm on some latakia tour at the moment.