Arent these blends Virginia heavy? I love all manner of McClelland Blends, but I tried their Navy Cavendish and found it to be a rather bland smoke, the only McClelland blend I have been disappointed by.
The Royal Cajun blends are fermented using the same processing as Perique. I started smoking them when they came out, mostly Royal Cajun Black. I read somewhere that it mixes well with McClelland 5100 too. I often use it to spice up tobaccos that seem flavorless to me.
marmal4de i really dig them. i especially like the ebony. it is a unique little tobacco that cajun black. with the ebony it is very spicey smelling and has a great flavor but smokes very smoothly.
what i noticed right away was i could taste all the spice in the smoke floating inside my mouth, but the flavor never landed on my tongue; not even when i smoked it hard just to see.
Funny that a thread like this should pop up as i JUST finished smoking my first bowl of this, purchased a tin of the Ebony for the heck of it the other day without knowing a single thing about it and i REALLY like it!
@tonypuff - i went to one of the locals to re-up my recently expired supply of Frog Morton's. They, of course were out of the Frog so I purchased the Ebony and Dark because they were sitting where the Frog should have been.
It was a well rewarded gamble and i will definitely putting a few tins of this into storage sometime.