Ashbury by Greg Pease
An alluring assortment of exotic oriental tobaccos is generously blended with bright and red Virginia leaf. Finally, just enough Cyprus Latakia is added to provide an alluring smokiness, resulting in a tobacco that can best be described as a light-medium Balkan mixture. This is the blend for gentlemen with a Bohemian spirit and a sense of adventure.
If you like Virginias and don't mind Orientals and Latakia in very modest proportions, you'll probably like Ashbury as much as I do. Greg Pease said Ashbury "could almost be considered a light English or Balkan style mixture." Don't bring the wrong expectations to this blend lovers of the Latakia bombs.
This is a Virginia blend - red and brights. The small-leaf Orientals and just a touch of Latakia does for this blend of tangy-sweet Virginias what a squirt from a lemon wedge does to a glass of iced tea. The added lemon doesn't change the beverage from being an iced tea to something else and the Balkan condiment leaf won't change your mind about Ashbury being a Virginia blend like its siblings in the Fog City Selection.
