By far the best YTPC channel on youtube....!

An enjoyable video. Say, if your teaching thing does not work out, you may have a career as a tobacconist. Always a pleasure to watch you share aspects of our hobby. Thank you.

Damn! You're like an encyclopaedia on tobacco, my friend, every video of yours teaches me something new! Never stop making them! Steve

Thank you for another great video!

Eccellente Italiano... Bravo Marc and what a wonderful blend. Cordiali saluti, Sandro.

Great video as usual and always learn from them. Thank you for sharing :)

I enjoyed this very much! Thank you for sharing!

Always enjoy going back and watching your past videos.

Smoking my first pipe of this mixture and I love it. Great proportions and the kentucky cigar leaf is perfect. Looking forward to see how the flavors meld over the coming weeks.

Thanks for the great tips and tricks, I am going to try it with some Latakia. Love your videos, keep them coming

Great looking blend. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate you taking the time to show us new ways to enjoy some great baccy flavors. 🔥💨🔥

Nicely done - I always enjoy your thoroughness

Great video Mark and thanks for an information and advice for the blending. Take care. Janez

Regarding Clint' and the Toscano: Mr Eastwood, a non-smoker, loathed the cigar. When discussing making the 2nd in the spaghetti trilogy with director Sergio Leone Clint complained ''do I have to smoke that horrible cigar again?'', to be told by 'Leone ''but Clint, the cigar's THE STAR of the film''.

Just discovered your channel today! Glad I did! Great content. Been enjoying a run through of your vids and learning alot. Hope to see more!

Great video!

excellent video Mark, as per usual. thanks Kieran

Mark, The blends looks yummy, Im sure it is. Thanks for the post. this gave me some ideas that I will try. Thank You!

Loved this one Mark, your blend sounded so good! Thanks for sharing and keep them coming...SAL.

Very good. Thanks.

Wow that looks "Delicious" Mark. Thank you for that very fine video. Bob

great video very interesting

Hello, and thanks for all the educational and entertaining videos. By the way, what makes you a joy to watch and listen to is your accent. The way you pronounce words is endearing. According to this listener, feel free to pronounce cavendish anyway you like. Thanks, again.

looks good Mark . and looks easy to do great video , keep choochin the good stuff my friend

Great video Mark, I really enjoyed it :)

Biggest Gentleman ...I like your taste for pipes and tobaco ....Deep Respect from Macedonia Balkan

Hi Mark! Sounds like a delicious blend you have created! Best Wishes! CNP

Great video my friend! very interesting. I made VaPer blend with McClelland 2015 flake and toscano cigars. Cheers!

Whenever I try mixing a tobacco, I mix a very small amount, just enough for say, two clay pipes full. After mixing, I put the tobacco in a plastic bag, put the bag in my back pocket, and sit on it for two or three hours, then I smoke it.

very curious to hear your reactions to this mixture -- good video; comment made at halfway point; two weeks aging would really change it, I imagine.

Love those Italian cigars, although, I hate to say it but I like the Avanti de nobili toscani longs even more.

great video mark

This looks like a very interesting recipe, I am definitely going to try it soon! I could really use a break from plain Virginia flakes and Latakia-overloaded English blends. This seems like good starting point.

Always an adventure to mix your own blends. I love the videos from "The shack"!! A place to enjoy your hobbies and relax. I hope the mixture turned out to your liking my friend! Enjoy it....and Be well...

Hey Mark! I love Habana Daydream as well. I am intrigued by your blend and I might try and mix some up myself!

Thank you for sharing Mark... Your pronunciation is excellent....and your video too...i never experimented myself about blending tobacco...you could even think about to create a video series "Blending with Mark"... :D just joking! :) Using broken Toscanos cigars inside a pipe...alone or blended...is a tradition that go back and back for generations here in Italy...many pipe smokers still smoke them inside their pipes... It will be nice to collect traditional recipies from pipe fellows all around the world...I mean recipies based on something special of their countries...something that is part of their traditions... Have a nice week end Mark...and thank you for sharing...

SO HELLO MARK! In this site we can not make it without your elegant manners and interesting videos. I guess I have to justify soon my interest in that your original beautiful landscapes and issues. In the meantime... before somebody else ask us for the bill ... Let's think about it ! Keep smiling Mark Dear friend! 2017.2.22.

I love what cigar leaf can bring to a blend but never had the chance to try a Toscano cigar. We've all experimented with blending a little, if nothing else because we don't know what to do with a bend that is too weak or too strong so combining them seems like a good idea. Sometimes it works out great, sometimes it's a disaster! You forgot to give a name to your blend Mark. Perhaps you could make some labels and ask your friend Ronnie to sell them! Thanks for taking the time to do this and share it, always looking forward to your videos.

Mark - great video, really liked it. You have more energy than I - easier for me just to buy summat I like. You can handle a much wider variety of tobacco's than I - aromatics are totally out for me. Straight VA's burn the heck out of my tongue. I am a Burley lover and the C&D blends of burley. Hey, nice shed ! You have electric out there why not add a portable heater ? Have said it many times to you - I really appreciate your taking the time to share. Be good and may God bless Jim

My name is Christian, I love your videos. I know your a big meerchaum guy, i have my 1st meer coming in the mail from the meerchaum market. Was wondering if there are certain tobbacos that color your pipe more then others IE.... Virginia's, burleys, latikia, aromatics? What is your recommendations

no cigars on hand, but mixed up a bowl of these components: Gawith Hoggarth Curly Cut Deluxe Escudo GH Cavendish GH Black Twist GH Kendal Kentucky just stuff I had in sight, but a pleasant, flavorful smoke. (the last three items are unsmokable individually, so it's nice to have an outlet for them...)

Good to see you again Mark.....Very interesting discussion and experiment with mixing a cigar baccy blend. Is this a technique (or recipe) you employ often? All the components seem to be perfect and very complimentary, though you have to be careful with Perique as it can easily overpower a blend....this blend would do well with some aging, that's for sure. Thanks for showing us this idea. Take care and hope all is well there....things are getting crazy here as the circus is now up and running. Well, enjoy your Kentucky cigar baccy and coffee and we'll talk again, be well my friend, Corey

Hi Mark: Very interesting video. I enjoy your blending experiments. They appeal to the same desires in my nature that led me into pharmacy, as a career; and cooking, as a hobby. BTW, did you know the Rx symbol (on a prescription) stands for "recipe". The Dominican cigar leaf that you sent me, is very nice, blended into a Va/Per (C&D Bayou Morning, for example). I've seen the DiNobile or Parodi cigars for sale, here in America. They are little, strong Italian cigars. Quite dark. I wonder how they would work? I'll buy a pack, and give it a go. Also, the McConnell "Latakia" is pure Syrian leaf. The Syrian latakia is milder, softer, and a bit less "campfire"-like, than the Cyprian. You may like that as a condiment, as well. Great to see you, Mark. Thanks again, my friend. Be Well. Ed

Mark.. How are you my good friend 👍😁.. Excellent video... Just might try that myself.. Hope all is well with you brother take care 👍😁👍😁

Hi Mark, just to confirm your comments on the ability of the Kentucky used in the Toscano cigar to give flavors after few days, in Italy we try not to mix in the cigar jar standard Cuban cigars and the Toscano as after couple of week the Toscano takes over as it is much stronger in taste and depth. Sometimes these Italian cigars are used just to increase the nicotine level and often are broken down after have being smoked (just the part left) and mixed with other tobacco for the same purpose.

Thanks for this Mark. May i ask you if this can be done with any cigar. Also how about getting a tin tobacco already with this ingredients like Epiphany for example and just add a cigar or two?

The cigar reminded me of stogies (Parodi?) my gr. father smoked.

Great video. I'm thinking of trying to make a blend with some cigar toabcco as well. I'm assuming you used a scale to get the quantities right. Did you?

Sounds tasty! Now you just need a clever name for your blend.

I haven't yet experimented with cigar leaf based pipe tobaccos so this piques my interest. How would you characterize the flavour and strength of it? One of the things that appealed to me about 1792 flake was it was had a deep, rich, earthy flavour and yet that was counterbalanced by some interesting, sweeter flavours generated by the tonka bean. I wonder if there's a comparable cigar-leaf based blend?

Gott Grüss Mark,Nice to see you again,well this was interesting experiment and there are lot of variant for home blender to mess around, as to virginas,yes OGS is one of my all time favorite,but instead I'd pick up this new Amphora Gelb*Virginia which Is pretty interesting and mature virginia reminding me of Dunhill Flake yet Mc Barens HH matured Virg,and it is available in Germany and Denmark, at least you'll havi it at top-cigars.de shoppe,now My constant headace is that Amphora Original Brown is by far not sold in Germany but only in NL/Belgium/Esp/now, Shall I compose some substitud blend to Amphora Org Brown up by myself or the same type as Three nuns but less expensive,that question remains open. Btw, those Toscanian Cigars are pretty interesting sort especially to those Kentucky tobacco lowers, only my complain is that the draw might be a bit more open and one thing I love about these toscanos,they smoke slower than any other cigar I ever had,Thank You for bringing up this your blending experiment, useful and educative as always, Be Well till the next time we meet, Paul

Hello Mark, Thx for a very informative video!! I do not think I will be doing any mixing myself, but I find very interesting the idea that is behind the creation of a blend and the reason they use such or such component. Btw, were is the snow?? Looks like from the view out the window there wasn't much on the ground! Take care my dear friend, and Be well! Gilles

Dear Mark, there is an interesting tobacco called Picadura. It is made (used to be?) in Cuba from cigar tobacco leafs which are cut into flakes and then dried and pressed together. In fact it is really heavy weight; a student once offered me a 500g pack which was not so big. More recently I wentback to Cuba and couldn't get it anymore so I don't know if it still exists. It could be good idea for you to make a blend.

I'm watching your back-catalog of videos and recognized that C&D's Sansepolcro in it's latest iteration may have been inspired by this video. At least a coincidence. 🙄

i am living in germany for work. what are some names of tobacco shop chains i can visit?

What a great idea Mark! I might try something similar. I think you should give your blend a name to finish it off - any thoughts? Best always, Paul

How concerned are you about the negative health effects of smoking?

I'm very intrigued. What don you make with all those pieces of wood above your head :-)

Nice experiment. Maybe too much cavendish for my taste. Same quantity of virginia, a pinch of cavendish and same amount of periqe and kentucky with some grain of latakia would be my cup of tea. Take care professor!

Hi Mark, is this the same blend you made in one of your videos for your father? The one he calls "your special blend"?

could just get some havana tobacco...