Balkan Sobranie: Balkan Sobranie 50g Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-513-0001

Among the most celebrated and legendary English blends, Balkan Sobranie dates to the 1920s when it was crafted by Sobranie of London — a blending house established in 1879 by the Redstone family. Though the original manufacturer has since ceased production, Germain's revives the iconic blend, comprising Latakia, Orientals, and Virginias for an exceptionally traditional English mixture.

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73 reviews
SO WHAT
June 09, 2018
Product: Balkan Sobranie Balkan Sobranie 50g
Never had the chance to try this one, because It's never in stock, I use to check it here every day for a year, I gave up. With so many good tobaccos on the market today I'm very happy with the selection I have, to be great It has to be in production once and awhile. Otherwise who cares I will spend my tobacco money on something else!!!!!!!...Read More
A special note,
February 01, 2025
Product: Balkan Sobranie Balkan Sobranie 50g
(I used to like this, it’s good but my tastes have changed)
ATTENTION:
If you are stocking these tins up for later sale, that’s your business. I could really care less.
I have instructed this too many times. In a vacuum nothing ages. It takes oxygen to give aging. If you want proof see a Yo
uTube video “ who hid a fresh body in a civil war grave”
It’s the story of a civil war confederate colonel who was taken out of his hermetically sealed, ( vacuum sealed) casket ) in 1977, and his buttons taken off his coat.
To make a long story short, ( just see the YouTube video )The authorities thought it was a fresh corpse.
Here we go. VACUUM SEALED TINS, OR ANYTHING VACUUM SEALED DOES NOT AGE!
If you want that tobacco to age, put it in a mason jar. Seal it up, and let the air out every six months.
All you that say you can taste a difference in aged vacuum sealed tins that are old are deceiving yourselves and others.
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The legend is true
August 25, 2024
Product: Balkan Sobranie Balkan Sobranie 50g
In 2017 finally I get one tin. Was amazing recent open, and today, 8 years later.
I recibe the email and orden it inmediatly.
The recent open tin smell whas great, campfire and “oily” subtel swetness. and the smoke alwais taesty. Every pouf gives you a sligthy different experience.
For me
the problem With some many blends is that Afther an amazing tin smell there is no flavor, or any flavor disípates afther two or thre pufs.
But with this Blend you have the whole pacage, amazing semell, grat taste and also layers and layers of taste till the end.
And finally gets only better with time.
Now it is a litle dry, but dry or rehidrateited (I use the lemmon crust in a Jar technique) still amazing.
(scuse mi english I am from chile)


The legend is true
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Wait and try
May 27, 2024
Product: Balkan Sobranie Balkan Sobranie 50g
The paradox is to review something before you buy it
Great but unfare reviews!
January 06, 2024
Product: Balkan Sobranie Balkan Sobranie 50g
Look, it's super rare and sells out quick, but giving it one star or less because you couldn't get it isn't fair to the tobacconists who made this. Now I happen to know someone who can get me tins and I have 2 of them. This is one of the best Balkans I ever had and I love it. The sugar crystals are beautiful in the tins I got. This is wonderful blend and I can honestly say that it's a masterpiece. It is a low quantity made product and highly sought after (for good reason). I think giving a bad rating because you didn't get a tin is wrong honestly. So I will leave this review as someone who actually has had this blend. IT'S AMAZING and hard to find for a good reason....Read More
Clearly one of the best on the market
September 08, 2023
Product: Balkan Sobranie Balkan Sobranie 50g
Having smoked several hundred tins of the original blend, I can confirm that this is not identical. The issue seems to mainly be the Latakia’s smokiness is not as rich nor complex. That said, it is appalling that people are giving it a 1/2 star rating and complaining in their comment that they have never tried it. The reviews from these Bozos should be removed because they are not reviewing their product so much as voicing their sour grapes. Very nice smoke, improves greatly with age. The mineral notes from the Virginias shine during after the midpoint and through the end...Read More
Just a Name Now
March 15, 2023
Product: Balkan Sobranie Balkan Sobranie 50g
Was the king, now just a shell of its former self. So many better English-speaking out there I can't imagine fighting over this newer substandard version.
meh
February 09, 2023
Product: Balkan Sobranie Balkan Sobranie 50g
Tin note of musty sour vegetation and pungent smoky. Tobacco is a thin ribbon cut of black and brown, with a little tan mixed in. Moisture content is great. Burns moderate with few relights. The strength is mild to medium and nic is mild. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium and consistent, with notes of smoky, very bitter wood, floral, toasted bread, leather, musty herbal vegetation, incense, dry earth, acidic/spicy, citrus peel/zest, a mildly sweet stewed tangy fruit background note, and a very peppery retro. Latakia is leading with Oriental/Turkish and Virginia supporting. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is great....Read More
What is this?
December 05, 2021
By: PD
Product: Balkan Sobranie Balkan Sobranie 50g
The last time I smoked the real Balkan Sobranie Original mixture was in Italy 2004 (still produced but not much distributed then). It was a beautiful blend just like it was in the 1980s.
I have opened two tins of this in the last 5 years both from the original release 2011. It's a shag cut, with
pronounced latakia and musty smelling orientals.
I think it is awful, as I did the last tin of it. Not sure what to say but it nothing like the original and there are FAR better quality pipe blends than this.
Try a Sutliff match blend, Balkan Sasieni are better than this.
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Very nice
May 25, 2021
Product: Balkan Sobranie Balkan Sobranie 50g
A very good pipe tobacco is that there are few opportunities to buy it. Hope to increase production, now the demand is far greater than supply!!!