Put down the 1-Q, step out of the candy aisle of the tobacco world, and enjoy a truly flavorful tobacco. I cant taste any oriental tobacco. The latakia is there, right up front, and bold indeed! Be that as it may, I was fixated on finding the ultimate Latakia fix and when I started ordering from C&D, I worked my way through several less Latakia-heavy blends until I reached Pirate Kake. I don't know how long it will take me to smoke all this, but since I like to do a Latakia mainline once in a while just for a change, I will not mind having this in my cellar. The only one I am confident in saying I can taste is the burley. All in all what a great smoke Age When Smoked: Fresh to 6 months depending on updates considered. I'd recommend packing half a bowl as even after you are done latkia will saturate your very being with creamy smoke scent. I got a free sample of this from smoking pipes with a recent order. A very straight and narrow taste profile with hardly any change. i have found this one to be better if smoked only from time to time, and not as a good daily smoke, as more than one bowl in a day leaves the mouth unable to taste anything else for several hours. The aroma seems to be fairly stong. Not bad, just different. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment . Upon cutting the bag the latakia aroma permeated the room and my nose. Share 0 Tweet 0. Takes a while to get it going. Also, or you use your bare hands to crumble it or a knife. This is a definite tobacco. Leaving a creamy and peppery aftertaste that lingers, this is a modest Latakia bomb, and maybe my favourite Latakia blend yet! That is why this blend should not be compared with Dunhill EMP, or similar blends. Update 06/30/18: I can attest that age does this wonders. This was the last of 21 new blends that I recently worked my way through. I love how C & D presses the mixture into bite-sized chunks almost good enough to eat. Phone/office hours are 9am-7pm US/Eastern (GMT -5:00) Monday-Friday, 10am-5pm on Saturdays, and 12pm-4pm on Sundays. This is the kind of smoke you'd like after eating a big steak. But, I rather parrot and babble on a bit longer. Its superficial appearance and exotic middle-east aroma had an uncanny resemblance to a block of black Lebanese hashish, at least if my fading memory serves me correctly. Not an everyday smoke, but a great cold weather pleasure, to mix up the rotation. Tobacco is soft and dry. Everytime I try this tobacco, it's a new experience. I'm not quite ready to stock up on this one, but I will certainly buy more in the future. Relights are much less frequently on the bottom half of the bowl, in fact, it is burning quite well. I prefer Samuel Gawith's Commonwealth. Dark and rich looking, begging to be smoked. A drawback for me is the frequent relights, even with a dried tobacco. I'd say it's complex, but not like Penzance or a GL Pease latakia. Not a good tobacco for a newbie or someone who likes aromatics. I found that rubbing it out gave me the smoke I wanted and took away some of the haggardness of the rum smell. I find it to have a very rich, flavorful smokey, pleasantly toasty, note. JD and Beau sit down every week and talk about the rich history and elegance of pipe tobacco, the custom blends found only at the Country Squire, as well as general shop talk. Popped and greeted with the unmistakable aroma of a lot of Latakia. Pirate Kake Pipe Tobacco: A Musical Review - YouTube I don't mean to be a wet blanket or a negative guy, but it seems that a few reviewers that post many reviews are serving as marketers for blenders looking for their verbose reviews. You have to appreciate what Latakia brings to the table to enjoy Pirate Kake. Flavor wise, it's not as strong as one might expect and I'd say the nic level is medium. Awash in Latakia! Overall, it's good quality tobacco but my preference is a blend with less Latakia and more of a balance with other components. The burn was very cool and consistant and did not require relights. Purchased From: smokingpipes.com 4noggins.com. If you love Latakia, give it a shot. It's not unusual to get a two hour smoke out of this combination. Now, that sounds overwhelming at first, but Cornell and Diehl have managed to pull off a masterpiece. There are background notes of dried fruits present, however, if you let your nose acclimate. This is a niche tobacco for latlovers. I cannot imagine a more mellow Latakia dominated blend. The room note, of courseahem not spouse-friendly. Any drying, IMHO, would lessen the wonderful smokiness, which is the star attribute here. Most say it reminds them of a nice woodsmoke campfire. There is tons of thick white smoke, and it really is a lot of fun to light up. Tobacco is soft and dry. I like them when they're blended together. For a while I drifted away from the Smokey One, as my taste buds craved more complex blends. Slipped a nother cob into the arsenal yestiddy. I like latakia but this blend goes above and beyond. The strong Latakia flavor basically wipes out any hint of the other tobaccos. Firstly, it has smoothed out quite a lot from the way I remember it. yes, I am in lust at the moment, but love might follow. Superb taste and smell! Beautiful gray ash. Cornell and Diehl Pirate Kake Tobacco - Grove Pipe and Tobacco This cake should hold together nicely as it ages in the Ball jar. PK smokes smooth and has no bad qualities if you're a latakia junkie. Way too much for my taste, while I had taste smoking this sample. The Cavendish doesn't moderate this blend at all, and the Turkish is AWOL. Rapidly becoming my only daily smoke. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like The Mughal ruler who constructed the Taj Mahal was a. Shah Jahan b. Akbar c. Zahir al-Din Muhammad d. Osman Bey e. Aurangzeb, The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires were all a. Christian b. anamistic c. Zoroastrian d. Buddhist e. Islamic, The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires all originally came from a. descendants of the . I love it. Not pleasant. Although an excellent smoke on it's own this also makes a great blender. Tobacco is all about unique taste experiences, and the worst part of eating leather is swallowing it, which is remarkably mitigated in smoke form. The bottom half of the bowl, not surprising, is much more productive. The burley appears for a moment after lighting, then steps back to make way for full- force latakia with bits of tasty turkish aroma punctuating. Just the way I like it! This comes in a Krumble Kake and was fun to break and crumble to prepare for the bowl. Today I must up the ante yet again as I have reloaded my supply and am adding it to long term inventory plans. Pirate Kake is one incredible tobacco; unique in all the world. Maybe not an all day smoke but a great choice if youre searching for a characterful, spicy but not too strong mixture. I'm also starting to appreciate exactly how smooth Pirate Kake is relative to how much Latakia it contains. And this is the blend. Overall, a good smooth smoke that had no bite. The flavor is not very complex; it is quality Latakia center stage, with just enough Burley and Turkish to round out the edges. Once you are habituated to it, you are pleasantly surprised from time to time by the sweetness that comes through, possibly as an artifact of your palate adjusting to the overwhelming flavor of the Latakia. Easily four stars with pleasure. My fears were for the overall balance of the blend, with 70% I expected the smoke to be one dimensional, not so. -- UPDATE -- awesome blended with some Lane 1Q 1/3 Pirate Kake, and 2/3 1Q - marinate for a week in a baggie. The kake arrived moist. If you enjoy a great Latakia blend this one's for you. In this sense, it is a deep digging mixture, not heavy, quite campfire smoky, not leathery, without horse-stable notes. Yes, this blend deserves that much respect. Founded in 1913 this brand has been the most smoked hookah tobacco brand in the world for a long time. Reviews Very smoky, leathery, and herby. I find the Ten Russians to be a slightly better balance than Stimulus Package. The strength like the body falls short of medium. At first light the Latakia wafts by the nose and oh boy,try this if you need a Latakia drip tube. It is impossible to keep lit. It has a pleasant aftertaste. To each his own. It's quite easy to peel off the cake layer and get it ready for smokable condition. Lots of latakia which is why I bought it and was not disappointed. Let them try Kake and they'll abandon blends they thought were pinnacle. In my opinion, Pirate Kake is missing the added character, or that little bit of something extra that's needed to elevate it to the status of other top-shelf blends in its class. I get wood smoke, earth, leather, & savory meaty bbq notes from the latakia, which is quite robust, but also well supported by a good bit of floral sweetness & nice incensey notes. This does blast my palette out completely after smoking it, so it is resigned to evening smokes until I can strengthen my tongue. A wonderful tobacco. maiden voyage on Pirate Kake. Well, it really depends on where you are. I can see why some like this alot, and some who would never smoke it more than an initial bowl. I bought this because I found a 6 year old tin at a local B&M. I ordered 4 oz. I tried to smoke this once while sitting at the barneedless to say I had to switch; no one likes its room scent except other latkia fans. Purchased From: a gift from Smokingpipes.com. Cornell & Diehl Pirate Kake Premium Pipe Tobacco. As other reviews state, it is not for the light Latakia smoker, I believe this in on par with many other Latakia heavy blends, if not heavier. Next time I mixed in a little more and then a little more and a little more and then I ran out. Being a Pirate Kake fan I'm starting to love some of the Captain Earle's offerings more and more. A smooth, robust blend with LOTS (75%!) This has a very fresh tin aroma, almost perfume like. salted leather. of exceptional Latakia accompanied by Turkish and Burley. Spicey,hints of sweetness,SMOKEY,complex.Darn good!!! An 8 oz. I just can't say enough about this tobacco except, try it for yourself, it is pure heaven!!! Really like the piece I have come up with for this one. Smell also stays on your hands for quite some time after rubbing this out. Made from several high quality latakias including syrian and cyprian. Poi conoscendo come lavora Craig Tarler non si pu trattare di errore. The best latakia tobacco ever. The Burley just donates body and rounds up the mixture. . The nuttiness of the burleys barely come through. LATAKIA! I have never been offered so much as advice on a football game, and never anything like a tin of pipe weed for my reviews. First light I tasted heavy notes of campfire, wood, earth and sulfur. Cornell & Diehl Pirate Kake Premium Pipe Tobacco Something consistant with New Castle or darker. I really like this one. After the first 1/3 it actually becomes boring. . Rich and Smokey with a creamy finish. The wife will hate it but I'm too old to care. Smokes cool, lights easy, the latakia/cavendish/turkish blend is astonishing, I taste every component, but since it was pressed they are in such a harmonious balance. I received a free sample of this with an online order, and it quickly became my favorite. like alot of C and D it's pretty dry . The dominant terpene in this strain is pinene. Surprised that some found Latakia to be overwhelming as I found it just a little over medium in strength. I now understand why so many rate this tobacco highly. Nic dose is fairly low on this one, which surprised the heck out of me because the flavor is so over the top. I could almost imagine this as a Latakia lovers perfect morning smoke, whereas I had it more in mind as the last smoke of the day. It burns fine right off the kake but becomes a very tiny touch ammoniated by the end of the bowl owing to being over moist. I smoke only virginias and perique blends. I usually smoke Black Frigate and this is just a wonderful change of pace for me. Not all that much one can say about a 70% Latakia blend, but the real coolness of this is in the presentation. A couple of Beauties. A cigar is to be enjoyed. It's just too much of it to the point of making it monochromatic. What I'm getting? I found it to be an excellent blend. Very Piratey. No less than 70% of the dark smokey leaf goes into this blend, an amazing amount. Not an all day smoke,. Nicotine content is low. Smooth, super tasty. Is also a good base formmaking personal mixtures, as source of Latakia. For instance, theres plenty, and I mean plenty of dark lush tasting latakia leaf here. The first thing that hit me. My wife, 60 feet away doing some gardening remarked how nice this smelled. This one, on the other hand is a lat bomb, and for me is very tasty. Try it! Tried this for the first time today. To many, this would be a heresy on the order of combining several single-malt scotches (perish the thought) or good wines. Cornell & Diehl Pirate Kake | Premium Pipe Tobacco | Mom's Cigars Even the smaller pieces have a remarkable cohesive quality and are really unnecessarily difficult to get prepped. If you are not a latakia lover than this blend is not for you, if you are this blend will float on cloud nine. Ahoy! Cornell & Diehl Pirate Kake Premium Pipe Tobacco. I order this in bulk, not my usual choice. I like this so much! Loading was easy since this crumbled in to small pieces. The tin description should scare off all but the most hardened latakiaphiles. Now for the pipe. I find PK to be a charmingly enjoyable blend, smooth as butter, rich with wood, earth and leather, along with some sweet coupled with sea salt (and a mineral-like element that I cant quite put my finger on its not quite soda-like but it sits right behind the salt). And third it is a fun to work with kake/plug. The Virginia's and and Burley provide a good base and can be tasted behind the Latakia, and it is a great flavor. Pirate kake is quite a bit sharper and overwhelming if you smoke it too fast. HO-LEEE SMOKES, BATMAN!!! Kake is misleading as the pressed tobacco has many of the characteristics of a small piece of 5/4 inch pine decking. This is a good tobacco. Cornell & Diehl Pirate Kake Pipe Tobacco - TobaccoPipes.com This is cologne in a pipe (in a good way). Strong Latakia presence with Orientals for a rich, silky, cool smoke. I mix it three parts Dunhill Early Morning Pipe to one part Pirate Kake. This stuff is just a sweet, smokey, Latakia and makes no pretense about it. OE was suppose to cut the heavy Latakia of PK , but one thing it does is bring the Burley slightly into play, that I don't like. I've never smoked a blend with this much Latakia and would not have, had it not been given to me. This blend is smooth and cool smoking all the way down the bowl and though I don't have a "sophisticated" palate, I know what I like and this is a great smoke! Very creamy, smooth in the mouth and leaves a nice coating for you to enjoy for an hour. I smoke all kinds of English/Balkan stuff. (how many times did I say smoky so far? LET THEM SMOKE KAKE. Apparently, it's recommended to try mixing this with some Haunted Bookshop, however I have not tried that yet. I enjoy latakia immensely. This bulk tobacco came as one large slab, with sharp-cut edges, like it had been hewn from a monster brick. Cornell and Diehl Pirate Kake Tobacco $11.05 G.L. This is the latakia bomb of all time here. Appearance is a pressed briquette ("krumble kake"), rubs out to a coarse mixture of pieces and ribbon. Mmmm. Delicious Smokey, leathery, earthy, woodsy, Latakia aye cant gets enough of! Very consistent smoke and taste throughout the smoke. Some would say the latakia is over dominant so much that you can not taste the other tobaccos in this blend. Bottom of Bowl: A nice build up of strength, still smooth, not quite as complex as Pease's Abingdon, but nevertheless still delicious. Not for everyone, and cake tobaccos require some rubbing out, but all in all a good tobacco. This is a fantastic Latakia smoke! I like latakia as a condiment, even sometimes as a chief component take HH Latakia Flake for example but this stuff is just disgusting. It may get my additional half star again with aging. Indeed most of the tobacco is black, just a little bit of gold leaves. Otherwise on its own it lacks body. Similar Blends: Dan Tobacco - Old Ironsides (American History Mixtures). In that sense, this blend would be all-day smoke for Lataki a followers. After the room stopped swimming, and the tastebuds recovered, I tried it again in a smaller block. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts As always YMMV. All she said was ?that smells kinda strong.? It is too much, after a few minutes of it my senses numbed. Flavorful. So smooth I would describe it as creamy. I can taste it from time to time, not in a nutty burley taste but more of a vegetative way. But I knew that would probably be the case going in. The smoke was heavy yet disappeared quickly, but whether I sipped or puffed it stayed heavy until half way down the bowl when it grew even thicker and did not disappear. I fell in love on tin note (also didnt know what that was at the time) that love grew and grew bowl after bowl. Update 6/14: I had upped the rating on this to 3 stars a while ago as I began to appreciate it more when I smoked in as a leisurely, late night smoke, and not as a daylong choice.