I highly recommend this, it's a great tobacco, anyone who say it's not, is very unlucky to have either recieved a bad tin, or packed it too tight, or just doesn't have the right chemistry in their mouth! You must try it, I bet you'll love it (aromatic smokers only though!!)

tips: Let it dry, it's better. Smoke it slow.

Its a lovely leaf to pack. It tastes beautiful. (to note: it tastes a lot more subtle then it smells) It leaves a hint of chocolate (coco) on the palet.

It burns well, even and cool. It also leaves a nice room note. pleasant and not overpowering.

Its just a fabulous overall smoke. I would consider it an everyday tabacco. A real treat in the evenings and would compliment a nice Irish whiskey (Jameson 1780) or brandy (Hennessy cognac)

Enjoy it lads i would highly recommend it to you all.

For me, thats where the enjoyment ends.

I have tried hard to like this tobacco but for me there is too much going on and is like smoking a bowl of pot pouri without any real definition of flavour.

I bought this based on the reviews here but it didnt work for me, win some lose some.

Whoah!! This stuff smells absolutely delicious. Though as we all know, most of the time the smell doesn't translate to the actual smoke, so I approached with caution.

The tobacco itself is beautiful - nice shades of tobacco in there with broken flakes. Mmmm, flakes. Moisture levels seemed to be just right, so I went ahead and loaded up a bowl and lit up.

Took to a flame well, and stayed lit all the way down after a single tamp. The flavor is pretty complex, and I agree with previous reviewers saying that there is too much going on - I mostly got the rum and fruit. Room note is out of this world.

Tongue bite? Over heating? Gurgle? None of that. Mine smoked smooth and cool down to the last embers.

Top notch smoke.

Comes across with a very appealing room note. But all those flavors that were so lovingly applied to this mixture, not to mention the poor tobaccos themselves, are all quickly lost in biting heat and the fog of my own apathy.

I may be too critical. Basically I feel that this mixture is nothing special, but it is priced like it is something special.

Try Boswell's Pipes' aromatic mixtures instead - i.e. Berry Cobbler or Christmas Cookie - The tobaccos and the delicious flavors come off much better in those mixtures.

I seem to have trouble appreciating Peterson's aromatic blends. Odd, because I love their pipes.

Connoisseur's Choice is very much the bigger brother to the Luxury Blend, packing similar, yet bigger flavours, and smoking a great deal hotter, with an incredibly spicy finish, that some are going to find way too aggressive. Smooth it is not, but the pleasing toffee-fruit room note gets a big thumbs up from room dwellers, even if you yourself are left fighting a tad too hard to get a handle on the raw tobacco. The base virginias are a little flat for my liking, but everything else pulls them through to create a relatively pleasing smoke that's like rum punch at the beginning, going through salty in the mid bowl to creamy soap at the end. Moreover, I find a p-lip bit pretty hopeless with this tobacco, and it seems to respond much better to a wide fishtail mouthpiece.

It's a veritable journey into the senses, and although not quite as balanced as some of its closest rivals (perhaps Ashton's Smooth Sailing), it piques my interest enough to allot it three stars. Pretty decent stuff.

Am citit despre acest tutun de pipa chiar aici, pe acest site, indrumat fiind de comentariile de pe forum pipabucuresti. Sunt incepator in fumatul de pipa, dar ma perfectionez pe zi ce trece. Ca orice incepator am inceput cu aromaticele, pentru ca sunt mai usoare si lasa un miros extrem de placut in locul unde fumezi. Connoisseur's Choice este un tutun placut, extrem de aromat, care se arde de la sine, daca fumezi pipa in mod linistit. Il recomand oricarui incepator, iar nu in ultimul rand si celor pasionati de tutunurile aromatice, desi contin unele arome mai mult sau mai putin naturale. Salutari din Bucuresti, Romania.

Top stuff, light up and smile at the Latakia smokers.

In the bowl, it is a little harder to recommend. The gentle nature of this tobacco suggested by the aroma turns out to be rather more boisterous and ill tempered. Although it takes to the match well, and the upper decks are refreshing and autumnal in flavour, before reaching mid-ships I was battling with a very different beast. The word is HOT. My Doctor Plumbs ‘dinky’ heated like a cauldron, even when sipped very gently.

This fierce heat was a feature throughout the bowl; to such an extent that I feared my briar might crack asunder.

The room note is delightful, and a sure fire hit with the ladies. Such a shame that the work involved in producing this pleasing note is scarcely worth the effort.

Yea, I love the aromatics....so sue me. This is fruity, fruity, fruity. Did I mention that it's fruity?

For those of you that feel pressured to try the English blends, the latakias, etc.. then don't. If you like aro's to hell with those that try to convince you that unless you smoke something that smells/tastes like leather or burning wood, then you're somehow inferior?!? Well to them I say this;

"Yaboo Sucks...with knobs on!"

Good quality, fruity, rummy, etc..etc.. a rich dessert smoke, This one just loses out to the much maligned (and quite unecessarily so IMO) 'De Lux Mixture', for my favourite Peterson aro..

Once I determined what was available locally I picked a tin at random that seemed promising. I was still relatively new to the hobby so I didn't know the reputations yet. Peterson's looked quality enough. Connoisseur's Choice, good name. Why not?

When I lit up that first time I was very pleasantly surprised. I instantly understood why so many smokers begin with aromatics and stay there -- they're very flavorful and easy on the tastebuds. For those who prefer sugar to salt, it's a natural choice.

I still can't easily discriminate the flavors that comprise the final melange of this blend. The primary sensation for me is that I've just walked into an old-fashioned candy store -- and that's not a bad thing. I sometimes like cotton candy. Connoisseur's Choice is very sweet without somehow being cloying, which makes for a nice smoke. It doesn't have any of the subtlety or nuance I like in english and balkans, yet it does have some complexity (in a two-dimensional kind of way), with all those sweet flavors swimming around each other. If I concentrate on the flavors I can tease out cherry and vanilla and maybe some tropical-type fruits, but the whole is actually greater than the parts, which makes this a really fun, pleasant smoke. RCUSElder said this was "candy in a tin" and I agree. Plus it smells great!

Now that I've smoked more aromatics I can better detect some flaws in this one -- it does have a slight chemical taste in the background, and it can smoke very hot if you're not careful. It also leaves a powerful ghost, so you really ought to smoke it in a dedicated aromatic pipe. But the negatives don't detract too much -- it's still a really pleasant smoke.

It's fortunate for me that this was my first aromatic. It encouraged me to continue sampling them. Had my first experience with an aromatic been an inferior one (like Peterson's DeLuxe Mixture, the next one I tried) I probably would have waited a couple of years before venturing away again from my latakias & orientals.

So I'm grateful that Connoisseur's Choice turned out to be so enjoyable -- it was my gateway 'baccy to a pleasant genre.

PS Kilmarnock Piper said this has "too many notes", and I don't disagree. But I'm one of the few who like Reger!