Mac Baren Latakia Rolls Limited Edition

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Encased in a wrapper of whole Virginia leaves, Mac Baren's limited-edition Latakia Rolls features a core of spicy Dark-Fired Kentucky and naturally sweet Virginias, alongside a significant percentage of smoky Latakia. The blend is then rolled by hand and stored for five days in wooden crates before being sliced into fine coins. Like nearly all of Mac Baren's spun-cut mixtures, maple sugar is used as an adhesive to bind the rope together, but it is otherwise quite pure in natural flavor, elevating each individual component to the attention of the palate. Latakia Rolls beautifully showcases the natural character of each varietal, offering a pleasant balance of sweet, spicy, and smoky notes; the incense-like character of the Latakia complements the Dark-Fired's tart, mesquite flavors to produce a smoke that's incredibly complex yet smooth on the draw. No one flavor or component dominates, the cut instead offering a more blended, married profile regardless of how it's prepared in a pipe. Whether folded and stuffed, stacked, or rubbed out into a fine shag, Latakia Rolls is the all-day, spun-cut English blend we've all been waiting for.
Notes: Limited to 7,500 tins

Details

Brand Mac Baren
Blended By  
Manufactured By Mac Baren
Blend Type English
Contents Kentucky, Latakia, Virginia
Flavoring
Cut Curly Cut
Packaging 3.5oz Tin
Country Denmark
Production No longer in production

Profile

Strength
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Extremely Mild
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

3.33 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 28, 2021 Mild to Medium Mild Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
While this is not an instant classic, it is a very enjoyable coin cut roll cake. Sweet and spicy at varying levels. Not one i go to often but a good sometimes smoke.
Pipe Used: various
PurchasedFrom: tobacco pipes
Age When Smoked: 9 months
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Nov 15, 2021 Mild to Medium Extremely Mild Mild to Medium Tolerable to Strong
From the name, I was concerned that it was going to be too heavy on the latakia for my tastes, I should not have worried.

The limited edition tin design is really nice and goes nicely with the other Mac Baren's rolls in design. When opening the tin and opening the "coffee filter" liner you are greeted by coin style tobacco. In my tin, at least, some of them are broken up already and not in "perfect coins" like you get with Escudo or LBF. The tin note to me was very slightly smoky.

The coins/rolls are easy to pull apart and to be able to load almost "whole" in a larger bowl or break-up more for a smaller bowl. The moisture content was fine. Lighting was easy. The first few puffs were usually fairly sweet which surprised me.. as the bowl progressed the flavors really depended on which components were hitting the flame at that moment but moved nicely from sweet to spicy to smokey through the bowl. Usually requires a couple of relights and burns down to a nice ash no matter the pipe I smoke it in.

It's a good smoke, but not something I'd overly miss if they never do another LE run of it.
Pipe Used: various
PurchasedFrom: can't remember
Age When Smoked: 1 year
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