Arango: Balkan Supreme Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 005-663-0001

A full-bodied English mixture, Arango's Balkan Supreme combines Latakia with fine Orientals and Virginias with Black Cavendish and Turkish Samsun to produce an award-winning smoke.

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  • Components: Virginia, Latakia, Orientals, Black Cavendish
  • Family: English
  • Cut: Ribbon
Customer Reviews
Overall Rating:
4.8
248 reviews
I expected more
April 12, 2025
Product: Arango Balkan Supreme Bulk
Granted, this is the first Balkan I have tried, and it may be that it is just not for me. I love C&D Mountain Camp and G. L. Peace Quiet Nights, both really good Lat forward English blends. And, with this blend I expected the Latakia to be in support of the oriental. But I just can't seem to get much flavor out of this blend. I tried it based on the reviews and am a little disappointed. The tin note is a smokey, campfire type note of an english blend, but the flavor is just not there for me. Could be that I'm just a Lata-phile with no hope of really loving anything else....Read More
Consistently the best most enjoyable!
May 15, 2025
Product: Arango Balkan Supreme Bulk
This is consistently the best most enjoyable tobacco I smoke! There is nothing I don’t like about it. The room note is wonderful, fragrant and relaxing. Never overpowering. I love the tin note too, reminds me of campfires and musky earth. The smoke is tasty too. Burns to ash completely. I find it perfect as an all day smoke, in traditional pipes, briars and cobs, falcons, as well as my gourd calabashes and meerschaums....Read More
I fell in love with a girl who didn't catch my eye at first sight.
February 03, 2025
Product: Arango Balkan Supreme Bulk
As the title suggests, I am a lover of Latakia. At first, I didn't find this Balkan Supreme particularly impressive, but gradually, I realized that I had fallen in love with it.
A Real Winner!
July 10, 2015
Product: Arango Balkan Supreme Bulk
I've been pipe-smoking for 45+ years and "grew up" with the OLD Balkan Sobranie, Dunhill 965 and Standard Full, Rattray's Red Rapp and Black Mallory as well as Bengal Slices, State Express, etc. While I have found nothing like these old blends, some of todays are very smoke-able. This, however, raises the bar to another level. If you have been lamenting the old/good stuff, this is worthy of your attention! I wanted to give it 5 stars, but somehow the website wouldn't allow it. Give it a try, you won't regret it!...Read More
The best of the best.
January 30, 2025
Product: Arango Balkan Supreme Bulk
Balkans are my absolute favorite blend. I haven't tried every Balkan there is, but certainly many. Arango Balkan supreme is by far my favorite! With GL Pease Abingdon as a close second. Or maybe Hearth & Home Larry's blend. If you like Balkans, or want to give them a try, don't pass this stuff up! I hope to God they never stop making it. But I'm cellaring the heck outta this stuff just incase. I don't ever want to be without it....Read More
Class on a Pipe
February 27, 2025
Product: Arango Balkan Supreme Bulk
Look, if you want to enjoy an English blend where the Latakia isn't overpowering, the smoke is cool and the Orientals complement everything else in a divine fashion, Arango Balkan Supreme is the way. Sopraffino.
Not a very good choice for a newbie to try, but then get well with it
March 15, 2025
Product: Arango Balkan Supreme Bulk
Some old guys strongly recommend me to buy this stuff to taste, while its stained room note was more disturbing than English mixtures, but it is still a good recipe when mixed with aromatic ones Raw tobacco: Bacon and stained iron smell Taste: Fully a bacon in the smoking chamber and nuts, some caramel in the end....Read More
Favorite Bulk English/Balkan blend
January 25, 2025
Product: Arango Balkan Supreme Bulk
This stuff is unmatched as far as I'm concerned. I can't believe how affordable it is, especially considering it rivals and trumps many of the big name tin blends. If you are an English/Balkan lover, you absolutely can't go wrong grabbing a pound of this blend.
This one is deserving of a high rating...
January 15, 2025
Product: Arango Balkan Supreme Bulk
This one is interesting and challenging, but not in any bad way. Mine was moisture-perfect and requires no re-lighting and hardly any tamping as well; all while producing plenty of smokey clouds. A lightly packed bowl gives you a very pleasant (but not over-taking) citrus-like, almost sweet taste, along with typical notes for this type of blend. And, with little to no tamping, that all lasts throughout the bowl. But if you prefer the more Eng./Balk. (w/reduced sweetness) right from the start, then initially pack the bowl a bit more firmly and tamp it right after you light it...and keep it tamped. Also, I never detect any retro bite nor tongue bite. It's just a pleasant and interesting smoking experience. It deserves it's rating of between 4.5★ and 5★...although I've just not tried many Eng./Balk. blends, to date, to know if 5★ is where it should be. But I gave it 5★ to keep the average, for this one, nearer to 5★ than to 4.5★. I've already added an additional 1lb to my original 8oz purchase. And plan to grab up another 16oz of it, or more, soon. It really delivers from my Savi 804's and Rossi 8804's (with their Balsa filters)...and Neerup's. Meaning it likely performs well in any large/deep bowl. So try it in those pipes, if you got'em, or in a pipe with a deep/large-dia. bowl. The stuff will attempt to burn, continuously, right down to the bottom. So for that reason; if you prefer to leave some dottle for protecting the bottom of the bowl...then you have a challenge on your hands. Because it is a struggle to stop puffing on this blend....Read More
Waterloo 4440
December 28, 2024
Product: Arango Balkan Supreme Bulk
The more I smoke this blend, the more I like it! It is normally in my first pipe of the day. It packs well, burns evenly and has a great flavor profile… it pairs well with black coffee…Arango Balkan Supreme is a fisherman’s dream, especially in a MM Dagner poker or a MM Stubby!
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