Originally Posted by
1OldGI
There are several, McClellands has two, Dominican Glory and Dominican Glory Maduro. C&D Billy Budd, which I smoke a bit of in the Fall and Winter has maduro leaf as does a Hearth and Home blend called Stogie. I've not sampled the McClelland blends but Billy Budd is quite good (although the cigar leaf is generally drowned out by HEAVY latakia content). Stogie is good but rather mild, there's really not much there, there. Oddly the most cigarish pipe tobacco I've ever smoked has no cigar leaf in it at all. It's my all time favorite tobacco C&D Old Joe Krantz. It's a wonderful mix of two Burleys, Virginia and lots of Perique. The result if a wonderfully cigary, borderline harsh but ever so tasty smoke that, as far as I'm concerned, has NO EQUAL in the pipe smoking world (in fact I think I'll smoke some later today.)