About Our Tobaccos and Our Blending Methods
In all the years since Sir Walter Raleigh popularized tobacco smoking in the old world, little has changed in the manner in which the English have treated their favorite indulgence. Tradition, a word much overused, still characterizes the way blending is done at Croft's.
We purchase only the finest quality tobacco leaf available from small independaent cutting houses. This insures unsurpassed smoking quality to you fro that special time of enjoyment.
Our tobaccos are blended by hand, in small batches, using no chemicals or artificial additives, and are moistened with distilled water only. All of our blending and packaging is done exclusively on the premises, and all of our recipes are original Croft's recipes. This attention to detail assures you, the smoker, the highest quality, and greatest satisfaction in our tobacco blends.
If you cannot find just what you are looking for, we can blend something to suit your taste. We are also capable of matching any non-aromatic tobacco you wish to replicate.
About Our English - Oriental & Virginia Style Tobacco Blends
Our English style blends contain generous amounts of Latakia and various varieties of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos. The Latakia provides a dominant smoked taste that enhances the taste of good briar. The Turkish adds depth and a subtle nut-like taste that lingers in the back of the mouth. The Virginia balances the blend and provides the starches and natural sugars that work to soften the taste after the panning and aging process. The resulting blend is full and rich which remains remarkably cool and smooth.
Note: each bulk tobacco has
a 2oz. minimum when ordering by phone
| Decker's English | A medium bodied English blend with superb quality red Virginias and Orientals, topped with a extra rich rum essence. |
| Front Porch | Similar to Decker's English, but with a light rum essence added. |
| Bottom of the Bowl | Similar to Biggin Hill, but with more quality Lataka leaf added. |
| Carriage House | Similar to Biggin Hill, but with Syrian Latakia added. |
| Seichra's Blend | Rich combination of red and golden Virginias with a dash of Turkish orientals and a hint of Latakia. |
| Trafalgar | Trafalgar is one of the best English-Oriental blends ever produced. We start with a triple broad cut Latakia specially cut for Croft's. A complex blend of Turkish orientals is then added along with two grades of golden Virginia leaf. This mixture is panned, then aged to marry. |
| Spinnaker | A complex blend consisting of rich Oriental broad-cut leaf and generous amounts of Latakia. This mixture will give unsurpassed enjoyment to those who know the pleasure derived from mellowed near-east tobaccos. |
| Biggin Hill | To achieve the perfect balance of this blend, smooth red and brown golden Virigias are blended with rich Latakia and a dash of oriental. A medium blend of eminent distinction. |
| Levant | A quality blend in the old English tradition. We stepped back in time with this mixture. Generous amounts of rich aged golden chestnut burley along with hot pressed stoved Virginia married with Latakia will give you a superb choice for your evening smoke. |
| Clock Tower | A magical complexity of autumn red Virginias along with traces of Latakia will enhance the taste of fine briar. Clock Tower has a flavor as light and smooth as the best white wine and an aroma as natural and pleasing as the forest after a rain. |
| Red Squire | An exotic blend of seven Virginias aged for twelve weeks to produce a very soft complex taste for the palate. Red Squire has a wonderful room aroma and taste. |
| Pendleton | A superb blend of chestnut brown flake burley, panned with a hint of aged maduro Virginia and married with Latakia. A naturally fragarant smoke with touch of sweetness flowering into a sensuous experience. |
| Aged Burley Flake | A rich full flavored burley flake with a balanced taste and aroma. English and Virginia blend smokers will find this a delightful diversion. |
| London Cube | A delicious blend of fire cured toasted burleys, panned with red Virginias and cold pressed for seventy-two hours to give you this ffcc66cube cut all American smoking pleasure. |
| Dark Slices | A rich full bodied dark Virginia flake. The blend is sweet and pleasantly aromatic without any traces of bitter aftertaste common to so many stoved Virginias. |
| London Pressed | Composed of the highest grade of golden Virginia available. This very complex blend is then pressed and matured in a steam jacketed press for fourteen days. These bricks are then aged for an additional twenty-eight days before being cut into extra long slices. The reluting taste is rich and very smooth. |
| Burley slices | A balanced blend of long cut green river burleys fermented and heat pressed. This mixture is very soft with a chocolate room aroma due to its unique processing technique. |
| Sweet Burley Slice | A superb blend of imported and domestic burleys pressed and flavored with our own sweetening process. Sweet burley slice is the lightest and sweetest of our burley varieties. |
| Red Lyon Virginia | Expressly blended for the connoisseur's palate, Red Lyon has been one of our most popular Virginia blends. Aged red Virginia panned with traces of flue cured Virginia create the perfect balance of sugars and complexity of taste. A blend of eminent distinction. |
| English Cube | Another of the original Croft's recipes. Broad cut Latakia panned with brights and condiment orientals create this mixture of the days of past. |
| Old English | Perfectly proportioned amounts of the choices long cut Virginia, Turkish, Latakia, and St. James Perique are blended to create a well balanced blend as classic as Sherlock Holmes himself. |
| Solvang | This blend is a double broad cut bright flake married with a touch of Latakia and Perique and the final touch of rum and vanilla essence. |
| Cobblestone | Chestnut burley cube panned with red Virginia flake. We added a hint of Latakia and Perique with a soft fruit essence. A smooth balanced all day smoke. |
| Match Box | You'll want to light this one up! We turned back the clocks of time with this blend. A slow burning traditional burley blend reminiscent of the fifties era. |
| Menlo | We should call this mixture unique. Menlo is sugar balanced blend of red and orange top leaf Virginia, panned with Mahalla and Smyrna orientals with a dash of Latakia. A sophisticated blend for the palate. |