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Low Country: Natural Virginia & Oriental Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 005-780-0001

Low Country's Natural Virginia & Oriental: A touch of Turkish leaf complements a generous measure of Old Belt red Virginia, making for a sweet, complex smoke rich in floral notes and spice.

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3.9
45 reviews
This is the only LC blend
March 31, 2025
Product: Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental Bulk
That really stands on its own. I find all the others, even the straight virginia, in some way lacking here or there. While good as blenders, on their own I find them just missing a little something. The virginia and burley comes close to being complete, but as I'm not a frequent burley enjoyer I don't mind spending the little extra on the Haunted. This one however is completely smokeable on it's own. Zero bite. All day. Spicy and clean. The virginias in LC I find not to be quite as sweet, but it works in this blend. If the VA/Burley reminded me of oak, this reminds me of polished mahogany. I will definitely be buying more....Read More
Just smokable
November 21, 2024
Product: Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental Bulk
Red Virginia in this blend offers its usual dark overtone but almost none of the sweetness I usually associate with red Virginias. It also a bit more tangy than usual. Turkish is added way more than a touch. It offers earthiness, sourness, touch of bitterness, and lots, lots of spice.
The tast
e is consistent from beginning to the end of the bowl. I believe this blend to be unrefined, too sharp and spicy. I tasted more than enough sourness but not nearly enough sweetness. There is also underlying hint of bitterness which I didn’t find very appealing. Nonetheless blend will do if you want to smoke but very busy and don’t pay much attention to nuances.
I do not recommend this to any lover of Oriental leaf. VaPer crowd may evaluate this higher than I do.
Personally, I smoked much better Orientals and VaPers than this. Will not buy again.
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A proper Steady Eddie
March 01, 2025
Product: Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental Bulk
I get the sweetness associated with the Virginia tobacco in the first few puffs. The floral notes from the Oriental complement the simplicity of the Virginia in a nice way. The Virginia itself is pleasant if you can get it, but it's very muted. This is okay in the aspects it markets itself on. The potency is mild-medium. The room note is respectful. The price is right....Read More
Mild and naturally blend
November 19, 2024
Product: Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental Bulk
Smoking characteristics were good. It was easy to pack and smoke. I did not have a bunch of relights and flavor was good throughout the bowl. The level of nicotine and the strength of this tobacco are one more of its assets, kept at a mostly medium level they allow one to smoke without fatigue. It burns slow, it tastes like pure natural tobacco...Read More
Low Country Bulks are like a C&D Cheat Code
July 09, 2024
Product: Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental Bulk
Let me say from the start that, while some of my favorite blends are from C&D (Dreams of Kadath, Haunted Bookshop), I have been burned by their virginias enough times that I sort of made a rule for myself that I wasn't going to try any of their primarily virginia-based blends (for anyone who might not know, and someone correct me if i'm wrong here—Low Country pipe tobaccos are made by Cornell & Diehl. Low Country, Smokingpipes.com, Laudisi, and C&D are, for all intents and purposes, the same thing). Previous C&D virginias for me have lacked all sweetness, tasted harsh and young, and often so rough on my throat I could hardly smoke a bowl.

However, I love me some orientals, and I love C&D's orientals, and they are really one of the few producer/manufacturers that really pay much attention at all to oriental-lovers. So it was with a high degree of skepticism and a tiny bit of hope that I ordered an ounce of this one to try—and I figured at less than 2 bucks it wouldn't be a big deal if it was another C&D virginia bust

Uniform ribbon cut, quite dry, but not crispy or over-dried. A pleasing medium reddish-brown I'm guessing are the Red Vas, with some lighter browns that might be the orientals, or some of it bright leaf if there is any (it does not mention bright leaf in the description, even though Low Country Natural Virginia, sans ori, is said to contain it). Pleasant sour, malty, tangy fragrance in the jar. Good signs, but then again, I have been fooled before.

because of the dryness of the ribbon, I packed it tighter than I normally do. Almost too tight, but it didn't turn out to be too much of a problem, just had to be careful about tamping as I smoked it.

Incense, butter, woody comes through from prevalent Orientals—good news. And while I don't taste the virginias much, that's not a bad thing. Virginia is there, but SO mild. More of a spine to the blend that supports the orientals—a spine that holds everything up and that you don't notice because it isn't hurting you, is really what a good spine should do (I was in physical therapy most of last year for back problems so I know).

If I had got this primarily for the Virginia flavor I think I would be disappointed. But with my expectation for C&D virginia being what it is, these virginias, being even quietly sweet and only a small bit of mild rough edges, are such an improvement from my usual experience that I'm delighted. And the point, of course, was the orientals, which come through well.

The description says that it's mostly Red Vas with a bit of Orientals. As others have commented in the reviews, the taste almost seems flipped from that description. But I believe that is because we're dealing with C&D red virginia… I'm not going to keep bashing that dead horse, my feelings on that are clear enough at this point.

Creamy, rich white smoke. Excellent in that regard. I like seeing and feeling and smelling big clouds of smoke around me. The blend can smoke very hot, though. My pipe got pretty uncomfortable to touch a few times and I had to slow down and let it rest a bit. I do not think it translated so much into the flavor, though perhaps the cause of some of its rough edges (again, remarkably mild compared to my past C&D rodeos).

Medium-low to medium nicotine. More than I expected, in fact.

The bottom line: I liked it. I might buy more, seeing as there aren't a whole lot of inexpensive and easy to find oriental blends out there without latakia. Then again, I have a pretty good VaPerOr home blend made with C&D izmir and sutliff everything else. The flavor of my home blend is more rich, but it's more expensive. But with the Low Country blend, we're talking about a really great value bulk blend here—I repeat, this is less than 2 dollars an ounce! Of course my home blend is more expensive than that, even if it's also pretty dang cheap.

If you, like me, want to try a cheap Va/Ori blend but are suspicious of C&D virginias, give this one a shot. It might surprise you.

If you are already a fan of C&D and have no qualms with their other virginia-based blends, then these cheap Low Country bulks are like a C&D cheat code

Based on this experience I am interested in trying more, even might pay more than the bulk prices to try their tinned VaPerOr offering, Atalaya
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superb!
June 11, 2024
Product: Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental Bulk
good as it is. i mix it with a little latakia and voila!
Tops!
October 28, 2023
Product: Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental Bulk
Hey, this is amazing mellow pipe smoking goodness!
The measurements of Virginia and Turkish are perfect in every way.
Flavors of real butter on sour dough toast, and an aftertaste/ aroma that stays on your taste buds and fingers that’s sooo good.
I would gladly ride a CAMEL, from Chesterf
ield to get this old gold.
This is the only blend of tobacco I’ve ordered back to back 1 lbs. bags.
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Really great VAO
December 25, 2023
Product: Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental Bulk
Difficult to be objecive here cause I'm a fan of VaPers, VAOs (Virginia with Orientals) and VAPOs (VaPers with Orientals).
This one is really great, delicious VAO at good bulk price, very smooth but with substantial amount of nicotine at the same time, very satisfying smoke with all features and
flavours of good Virginia and Orientals.
Nothing really outstanding maybe, but not boring and interesting enough to be an everyday smoke.
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Better than Expected
May 13, 2024
Product: Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental Bulk
I got this as a base for making my own blends. It is smooth and mellow with a subtle spiciness that develops through the bowl resulting in a better experience than I though a "plain base" would be. I have refilled my pipe throughout a day with this and didn't feel like I was missing anything....Read More
Perfect for tubes
May 01, 2024
Product: Low Country Natural Virginia & Oriental Bulk
Really nice in a cigarette tube, it's got a nice bite that's good and lifts it up from a plain smoke