What is the Most Complex Blend You Smoke

[sallow]

So inspired by the "standards" thread, where we pick the archetypical virgina, vaper, etc, let's go to the other extreme: What is the most complex blend you smoke?
I have two, the first being GL Pease sextant. It is just a beautifully blended tobacco with the kentucky mingling with the latakia and virginia.
The second is Peretti's cuban. There is burley and cigar, sure, but something else I can't quite put my finger on that keeps me interested in this blend.
What are your favorites that you need to sit down and ponder?

 

[ashdigger]

The only tobacco that I'm currently into that screams COMPLEX is Savinelli Doblone d'Oro. It's beautiful tobacco.

 

[josephcross]

I really need to get a tin of Doblone d'Oro, its on my hit list.

Blackhouse is probably my most complicated blend. I have so many tobaccos that Im still getting to know and experience, but right now anything with orientals in it I find captivating. The incense/sour note keeps me searching for it, along with Perique.

 

[grue]

Rich Dark Flake always throws a different note just when you start to forget about it.

 

[sablebrush52]

I really need to get a tin of Doblone d'Oro, its on my hit list.

I should never have mentioned this blend here...

It's a superb blend. If you liked the Va/Per version of Three Nuns, you will like this one.
Black House is another great choice. I'm enjoying some Balkan Sobranie 759, which is what Black House is based on, and it's an amazing smoke.
Motzek Strang has a lot going on when you get the moisture right, as does Director's Cut.

 

[fluffie666]

Red Rapparee is a nice and ever changing smoke. Strang is definetly another. I wish you didn't mention Strang sablebrush. I want to go and crack a jar open now!

 

[sablebrush52]

I wish you didn't mention Strang sablebrush. I want to go and crack a jar open now!

I'm always happy to be an enabler!

I'm glad I stocked up when I did. Since the change in ownership Motzek Strang hasn't reappeared, though the cut version seems to be around. I haven't tried the curly cut since the change in ownership so I can't comment on whether the blend has changed.

 

[iamn8]

Did someone say Strang?!?! We should totally organize a group buy!

 

[aimlesswanderer]

Mine is GH Pensioners Mixture :P
You don't get much more complex than "part of every other blend that they do" :mrgreen:

 

[jvnshr]

Did someone say Strang?!?! We should totally organize a group buy!

Again? No way. Last time you did that, the guy sold his shop.

 

[davet]

Last time you did that, the guy sold his shop.

:rofl:

 

[newbroom]

I've only smoked a tin of each but, all of the one's I've smoked that Russ Oulette signs have been exquisite concoctions of simple complexity. Perhaps none more so than White Knight, which got my attention. I gave that tin to my brother to take on his way to work and try and he never gave it back!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

+1 on Whiteknight. You beat me to it, Newbroom. ::

 

[mikestanley]

Used to be, I would have said Hermit Mystic Blend. That was a very complex blend. That before it was pressed. Nowadays, it has to be Wilderness. What, 14 tobaccos? Yeah, Wilderness.

Mike S.

 

[jackswilling]

"I should never have mentioned this blend here...

It's a superb blend"
You were the one who brought it my attention. It is not in short supply.

 

[dread]

As earlier mentioned, White Knight and Sextant are amazing. SG Navy Flake also has a lot happening in there as well.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

I don't smoke english blends so the height of complexity I typically pack in my pipes is limited to some virginia/perique/ky-fired.

That said.. I'd probably have to go with Pease Sixpence or perhaps Esoterica Tilbury.

 

[fitzy]

Definitely some of Russ' blends like Blackhouse, Magnum Opus and White Knight.
I've got a few Pease blends and despite their complexity I find them very one dimensional which is quite odd.

 

[toobfreak]

+1 on the Wilderness. Other than that, few blends can reach the complexity of one's own house Franken-Blends. Problem is, when you end up with a good one, there is no way to know how you got there! :mrgreen:

 

[mso489]

Good question, but I don't have a ready answer. Though it's mild for me, and not all that complex, I think Nat Sherman 536 has a really refined profile that comes across flavorful and nuanced. C&D Billy Budd is somewhat complex but also rough and ready, as is Old Joe Krantz. In the right big-bowled pipe, the PC tub tobacco Chestnut has quite a repertoire of flavors and nuances, but it is not fancy. Complex, complex ... good question. I'll have to think some more about it. I will say that when a blender tries to bring together too many tobaccos, it can be either or both harsh and muddled. I'd put Mac Baren's Navy Mixture in that category, though I haven't seen that one offered for quite a while. I think it claimed 32 kinds of tobacco, a little like PC's Best of the Rest.