My tobacco stash

Here's a couple of images showing my current stash of tobaccos. There are so many I can't wait to try. Let me know if you see any of your favorites.

fredvegas,
There are many more guys on this forum that can answer those questions better than I can but I will tell you what I think at this point.
I made the mistake of opening too many tins at one time because I wanted to experiance as many new tobaccos as financially possible. That, in my opinion, is the wrong way to go about smoking and learing about the various tobaccos for, at least, two reasons.
1. Unless you invest in air tight jars, the tobaccos in the tins will begin to dry out. For some tobaccos this may be an improvement but for others not so much.
2. I've heard from more than one person (John at the Briary included), when trying to learn about a tobacco, unless your a seasoned smoker, you should smoke the whole tin and not jump around like a kid in a candy store. You'll have to decide for yourself.
BTW, five of those tins were finished up in the same week (Westminter, Maltese Falcon, Navy Flake, Dorchester, and Plumcake). No I didn't smoke all of them in a week, they just ended at the same time.
I have only four opened tins at this point (Davidoff's English Mixture, Scottish Mixture, Escudo, and Irish Flake) and I'm going to finish them before opening anything else.

Jason,
I too took my queue from tobaccoreviews in ordering most of the tins pictured above. However, my experience was the opposite of yours with two tobaccos and one in particular. Mac Baren’s Navy Flake has an overall impressive review. I tried it and didn’t care for it, couldn’t see what the bid deal was. I wanted to like because I thought I was missing something.
Here’s a bad analogy to clarify how my mind can change when expecting something or too much of something of a new thing.

Have you ever bought an album by an artist or group you really like only to be let down after you first listen to it? However, you keep going back to the album and after a while you find a few diamonds in the rough. Before too long the album, or a few notes/songs –so to speak-, becomes one your favorites. Well, this is exactly what happened with Navy Flake. I kept smoking it and after about 12 to 15 listens, I mean smokes, I started picking up some very subtle flavors that my pallet had not experienced before. A few bowls later and I begin to look forward to opening that tin every day. I really like the stuff now but if I had judged it only after two or three smokes, I would have dumped it.
For me, I’m trying to smoke out the essence and character of the blend by spending some time with it. Who is this blend? What are you really like? Where did you come from? Are there any secrets you want to share? I want to fully know it before judge it. I don’t want imply that one should only smoke one tin at a time (that depends on smoking frequency, storage, and enjoyment) but if one is trying develop a taste for various blends, it may make it more difficult when one is jumping around from blend to blend or just having a one night (stand) bowl full.