Tobacco Selections: Orientals
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Oriental is a unique and interesting varietal of small-leafed, sun-cured tobacco that varies considerably in flavor profile depending on the grade, offering notes ranging from bright citrus to deep, earthy spice. It's also the base-leaf from which Latakia is made (after a prolonged period of fire-curing). On this episode of Tobacco Selections, our head blender Jeremy Reeves takes a closer look at our two main grades of Orientals -- Basma (from Greece) and Izmir (from Turkey) -- explaining their individual flavor profiles, as well as how they work together or with other components in a blend. Enjoy!
Izmir is my favorite tobacco type..
Hands down sunset harbor is one of my all time favorites
This was a great installment. Thank you for continuing this series. I always come away with a new understanding and appreciation of tobacco and tobacco blending.
Jeremy I enjoy your vides and the chat about pressing tobaccos we had at the West Coast Pipe Show. Please consider doing a video reviewing the pressing changes C & D has made to your cake blends and the modifications you are making to bring the cakes backs to the more densely packed cakes you had a few years ago. Thanks 🍭🐓👶
Another interesting video, very informative too. There are alot of turkish/oriental varities and i wish they all get explained but the rare stock and limited supplies render that almost impossible. Fun fact, basma means a smile. Best regards
Al janabi
This series on tobacco, is very informational & educational! THANKS FOR SHARING!
As an aspiring home blender, this series is amazing and very informative
Hey Jeremy, I always enjoy your videos. They help get a better insight into making pipe smoking more enjoyable. Thanks for taking time to teach us new things.
Thank you for the informative and professionally presented reviews and descriptions. Cheers!
I once got some basma-type oriental leaf from a german tobacco leaf vendor and it smelled and tasted wonderful, very light so you need something stronger to blend with it to use for cigarettes, I used another oriental variety (long dark brown leaves) I got from another vendor that delivered that "throat hit" like strong virginia leaf (which is very hard to get besides virginia orange). But only this basma type leaf had this very aromatic smell that could stand on it's own, thousand times better flavour than the usual perfumy or hay like american blend and virginia cigarettes. I got a new mix of oriental varieties, some look very high quality, like thin leather and others like silk, they smoke and taste smooth but they don't have this special flavour the basma type stuff had.
Love oriental forward blends. Beautifully interesting tobaccos.
I love your Oriental Blending mixture, both alone and blended in my own mixtures. Great review too, it inspired me to create some more experimental blends. 😁👍
Cool video!
Thank you for sharing the knowledge.
A great explanation of Oriental tobacco's
Love this series
really learning something here - great stuff!
Jeremy what C&D blends would you recommend that show off the oriental tobaccos?
Bijou, Red Stag, Shandygaff, Rajah's Court, Sun Bear, Star of the East Gold and Oriental Silk.
@@jeremyreeves6425 Hey Jeremy, do you have an european (or even better german) distributor or importer?
I love the descriptions and reviews of your tobaccos and would love to smoke them some time.
Yes, we have some small and amazing blenders too (HU Tobacco, Pfeifen Hubers „Hausmarke“ house mixtures, who have an amazing Balkan Sobranie 759 successor and HU has the Fayyum Krumble Kake which is almost like a small Penzance and the Epikur plug which was created for a german pipe Forum and is full Virginia for example) but almost all your tobaccos sound like they are perfectly fitting my palate.
I hope you had a peacefully thanksgiving with your family in these crazy times.
Thank you and best wishes from Germany,
Lukas
C&D head blender's cap says it all.
Very informative. Thank you!
That hat!!! I think I need it in my life
Thanks! It was a gift from Pete Prevost and I plan on wearing it until it disintegrates. :)
So are the Basma and Izmir pressed into a brick and aged a bit before being tumbled out into broken flakes? I always thought that the bulk Oriental C & D used looked like it had been pressed. Also, I wonder if the old Egyptian cigarettes that were popular before the first World War had any Latakia in them. I know they were primarily Turkish style cigarettes of the period, just made outside the Ottoman tobacco monopoly. They were made by Greeks usually that had left the restrictive Ottoman Empire. It was and still is these Greeks that were the genius blenders of Oriental tobaccos and the people responsible for Latakia, then and now. Cypress is half Greek half Turkish island. When Syrian Latakia was banned they just picked up and moved a few miles off the coast to the island of Cypress
I am growing some Turkish Samsung I think it is, the plant and fruit look exactly like Cape Goosberry, I wonder if I have planted the wrong seeds.
Thanks for the great info! How do I get a hat like that? Keep doing your thing Mr. Reeves!
E.T.A. N.M
What about smyrna? Can you explain a bit about that? A local tobacconist has a blend called smyrna blend which I really enjoy.
I really enjoyed the Sun Bear. Is there something you offer that would be similar? Thanks.
Thank you for saying so! I love that blend. Sun Bear is pretty singular, but don't worry. I imagine you'll see that one come around again!
@@jeremyreeves6425 Excellent. I'll make sure to stock up then. Thanks.
Awesome, I really want to try!! What are the pipes you are using??
Great video! Thank you.
Can you please tell us about that last picture in the video? I've been looking for a plug cutter for the jsck knife plug, that stuff is great I just need a better way to cut it.
The plug cutter in that photo is one that I use in the office for slicing up plugs for sampling. It is called "The Plug Cutter" by Daniel Jud of Switzerland. We have had this one a long time and I do not know if Daniel Jud still sells these. Worth looking for on ebay.
Hello, what Orientals are in Red stag... I do content on CZcams in the ytpc, I want to be more accurate on my review
I am chasing that basma tobacco note. What pipe tobaccos do you recommend that contain or profile basma?
Great video and I love your shirt! Where dis you get it???
Enjoyed the video. Have you given any thought to tinning up the Oriental blend on its own?
We do offer this as a blending component in 2oz. tins and in 16oz. Bulk.
Jeremy had less coffee in this video ha
I wonder about the Old ones series leaf. Is it oriental or cigar?
Some of the Old Ones blends contain Oriental leaf from Greece called Katerini, and some of the blends contain Kasturi which is sometimes used in cigars.
Jeremy Reeves Thanks!
Where can we get the pipes he is using ?
it appears to be something like the Old Dominion Clay Pipes by Missouri Meerschaum
Don't you burn your fingers holding the clay pipe that way? :-)
besuki tobacco anyone?
Taste like old socks and shmorgus boards 😉
Everything is better than Latakia😂. Latakia tastes and smells like perfume