Lane Limited: Crown Achievement Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 005-006-0016

This rare mixture is composed of the finest Latakia, Virginia, Perique, and Oriental tobaccos. Crown Achievement contained Perique in its original form, but this element was removed circa 2004. Lane has once again added Perique, as per the original recipe (tracked down by Leonard Wortzel) to faithfully recreate the storied Crown Achievement of old.

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Lane Limited Crown Achievement

Lane Limited Crown Achievement

Lane Limited Crown Achievement

Lane Limited Crown Achievement

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Components: Virginia, Latakia, Perique, Orientals
Family: English
Cut: Ribbon

Customer Reviews

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4.2

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meh

January 19, 2023

Product: Lane Limited Crown Achievement Bulk

Tin note is smoky, sour and Rasin. Looks like the typical English blend, blacks, dark browns and light browns, a mix cut: shag, ribbon and broken flake with a few stems and very dry. Burns easily, requires an average amount of relights. Orientals and Latakia takes the lead. The Virginia's trails and further back is the perique. The strength and nic are mild-med, and no flavoring detected. The taste is consistent and around the medium mark. Taste of earth, smoky wood, a few sour notes and slight sweet. I couldn't taste any spicy perique. Mildly offensive room note and a good after taste....Read More

Real Deal

September 05, 2020

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So as an intermediate piper, I say this might be the most “mature” blend I’ve tried. Opening the tin will fill the room with a leather scent. Not for you who are just migrating from aromatics, or you will not appreciate the worth and likely write it off. My tin was dry on open, and I smoked it directly from a briar that has never seen an aromatic blend. I erred by puffing too fast at first and developed a hint of bite, but slowing down remedied that easily. Certainly has an earthy, leather and alfalfa quality. It’s neither sweet nor bitter, but a hint of spice. This will not win over the non-smokers in your house, that’s a fact. Overall it’s a very nice blend and I recommend it to the aficionados of non-aromatics....Read More

Excellent Blend

December 03, 2019

Product: Lane Limited Crown Achievement Bulk

I have shared this tobacco with a few curious acquaintances who could not stop complimenting the flavor and how smooth of a smoke it was. This is my daily tobacco for now. I am anxious to revisit this with some age to it.

Excellent Prominent Latakia With Some Citrus, Spice, and Sweetness

June 17, 2018

Product: Lane Limited Crown Achievement Bulk

I have never had the original CA from of way back.

[Tin/bag - Pungent Smokey, tire rubber, coming through the bag and the box it was shipped in. Fades to like a muddy dank horses stall without the poop - maybe some slight old leather. Great moisture ready to smoke.]

Reminds me faintly of Gaslight at the start - No burning candles flavor, just barely there with maybe a hint of candle, but some good, enjoyable Latakia. Cool, and a little tangy citrus. More Latakia, not much Perique for me in the nose, but it is a player. Similar to Hearth and Home Larry's Blend, but a little less full (think I prefer Larry's just a hair more). Little grassy Virginia here and there. Some small sweetness at times, and a tiny hint of sour once in a while. Hints of Perique spice occasionally. More good spiciness with the sweetness and once in a while some very faint sour too, consistently down the bowl.

Very enjoyable smoke, no bites and easy to manage with few relights needed. Burns down to grey ash with little to no moisture in the bowl. ◄7.4/10✠Skulls►...Read More

Excellent !

January 26, 2019

Product: Lane Limited Crown Achievement Bulk

Have you ever been to a barbeque where they put some pecan shells on the coals to add a little nutty sweetness ? If not, try this. A little sweet, a little nutty and a ton of charcoal briquet Latakia. This is Nightcap's daddy.

Great Stuff!

June 26, 2018

Product: Lane Limited Crown Achievement Bulk

Runs the wife, kids, dogs, cats and bugs off! Good smoke but the above just don't appreciate quality!

Excellent

October 19, 2018

Product: Lane Limited Crown Achievement Bulk

This is big and bold and in your face a little bit like 965 little bit like nightcap and a little bit like sobranie. it's got it all

Full-flavored, nighttime smoke

August 29, 2018

Product: Lane Limited Crown Achievement Bulk

This is a little too latakia-forward for my taste, but it is a well-behaved, cool-smoking full English mixture that you will enjoy if you like the Latakia "campfire" experience.

Deserves the name.

July 20, 2018

Product: Lane Limited Crown Achievement Bulk

This blend, while a little harsh, is an excellent array of flavors. I think some age would do this blend quite well. Iths heavy but not a total lat bomb. The sweet and spicy of the iginia and perique pairs well with the smoky flavor of the Latakia. There is an underlying bite of floral citrus that will last long after the smoke and leaves you with a faint taste of s'mores under the overall tobacco flavor. I will order this again. Best I've ever had from lane....Read More

For the love of all that is holy

August 14, 2017

By: JuneauTheButcher

Product: Lane Limited Crown Achievement Bulk

It straight punched me in the nose through the ziploc bag, the bubble wrap, the enveloppe and the mailbox. Woke up a week later and stored it in a jar. Anyone who unpreparedly opened the jar experienced the same fate.

Smell is of strong spicy/peppery flowers salad and dusty retirement home couch fire. Tastes like the exhaust of a steam engine and tweed jacket leather elbow patches but in a good way.

Indescriptible and unforgettable, I enjoyed this much more than the much hyped Balkan Sobranie. (Which was a well kept, still fragrant and moist tin from back when it cost 1,72$ in Canada, inherited by a friend from his late grandfather, mind you)...Read More