I haven't tried this blend, but I've smoked other cigar leaf blends like Billy Budd, which is fulsome and robust, but doesn't taste like a cigar to me. If you are curious about cigar leaf in a pipe, go straight to the source and buy some C&D Cigar Leaf and try it. You can also mix it with other blends, but it is informative to smoke it as a single leaf. Is it like smoking a cigar? Not really. A cigar is an engineered object that delivers the smoke in a certain way, often with a lot of control and blending, with wrapper leaf and other constituent tobacco. However, in a pipe, cigar leaf does give a strong cigar-like flavor and leaves the same aftertaste, in a good way, that you get with many cigars. It's really a pretty good smoke, strong if you like that, but not overbearing nor harsh. Pretty good stuff, and one or two ounces will spare you the quest after cigar flavors in many and various blends, most of which give only a hint, or none, of cigar taste. If you want a cigar, buy a cigar, but cigar leaf makes a pretty good pipe tobacco too.
