I have a half-pound of H&H Classic Burley Kake, and a couple ounces of C&D Autumn Evening, both which are burley/cav blends, and they taste similar. The taste is not what I expected after years of smoking what I thought was a similar blend from B&M, where their standout product mixes 3 types of burley with their own cavendish. It's not a candy aromatic, it's full-flavored but with a mellow tobacco taste by comparision to Burley Kake and Autumn Evening. On account of the unsustainable cost of buying B&M tobacco at New York prices and taxes, I am looking for a match to this great blend in the commercial online market, but so far I haven't found it. The blends I have from H&H and C&D have similar descriptions to the B&M blend which I'm looking to replace in my rotation, but the cavendish flavor is much stronger, and tastes more like licorice to me than the chocolate and maple which was promised. Licorice tends to be my impression with other cavendish blends which I've tried, which I sort of like when it doesn't take the lead. Therefore, I want to mellow that taste out. Would it work if I mixed in some more burley? Should I get some white mixing burley, or would darker burley do more to offset the cavendish flavor without reducing the total flavor?
