Peter Stokkebye/Arango Balkan Supreme

This is not a formal review as there are plenty of those available on line. Also, if there is any dissent from the consensus that the Stokkebye and Arango tobacco's sold under this name are the same, I can't intelligently address that issue.
What I can say is that, based on having smoked about two ounces of the Stokkebye version out of a pound purchased from 4 Noggins, this is absolutely one of the best bulk Balkan blends I have ever smoked, going back to around 1980. I am stunned at how good it is. One respected reviewer characterized it as a lat bomb, on that I would dissent. I think the orientals are very much in evidence, though the Latakia is definitely present. There is a roundness that might be attributed to the Cavendish, though I can't really say for sure where it comes from. It is rich, layered, complex, etc.etc. Great for an after dinner smoke, but it burns cool and clean so I have smoked as many as three bowls a day.
And it is cheap. 4 Noggins sells it under the Stokkebye label, Smoking Pipes sells it as Arango and Pipes and Cigars sells it as plain Balkan Supreme, just do a search and that is the bulk that comes up. My pound arrived at an ideal moisture content, which for me is very much on the dry side ("steam is hotter than smoke"- Bob Rex) so you will probably want to get this in jars on arrival.
By the early 1980's, I had been turned on to the virtues of aged tobacco. I have smoked Balkan, English and Scottish mixtures that were indisputably made back when blenders worked from stocks of aged leaf, and it is frankly unreasonable to expect that anything made after that practice became obsolete can precisely duplicate that experience. But, if I had smoked this back then, I would have considered it a very worthy blend.

@@ Andy, don't take my word for it.Russ says: "The reason that it's not listed under Peter Stokkebye is that they make this for Arango. It's not distributed through the normal distribution channel for Stokkebye (Lane Limited), but exclusively through Arango, so it's technically not a Stokkebye blend." There is a whole thread devoted to this subject on this forum and also on a competing forum.
@jackswilling, years ago, I would have characterized something that tasted like this as Latakia centric. Having smoked more Oriental centric blends over the intervening years, I kind of lean towards the latter category now, but it is a close call.

@daveinlax, I have read of others with the same opinion, but my own experience is only with Balkan Sasieni as it was when initially introduced in the 1990s and IMO Balkan Supreme is not at all the same as what was available then However, they are both made by S T G now, so they may well be identical.
If anywhere near true, then I guess I have no incentive to try Balkan Sasieni. Ordered from JR with free shipping and a currently available 15% coupon if you do a search, Sasieni runs $4.20 an ounce based on a 1.75 ounce tin. The pound I bought from 4 Noggins is very slightly more than half that.

I have smoked about half of the pound I got from 4 Noggins that was referenced in my OP. My opinion remains the same:. For the $ it is one heck of a smoke.