What is an English blend?
Here, you’ll find a range of definitions arranged like concentric circles. The largest circle claims that “English” simply means “not aromatic”. Another very popular definition has “English” to mean “a natural blend containing a significant amount of Latakia tobacco.” And the definitions available ratchet down from there. This is one of those topics – and terms! – that never seems to die. ‘English’ style blends are so called because at some point, there was a law on the books in England that tobacco manufacturers could not adulterate their blends with flavorings. That is really all that ‘English’ means; uncased. Find when the law was passed and take the group of tobaccos available immediately afterward, and those are your prototypical ‘english style’ blends. I submit that most people who use the term ‘English’ blend could not explain what they meant by that term in under 90 seconds, making it, to me, a useless term. If we could hammer out a term that WE agreed on, I would be willing to
