You *may* want to give Boswell's Dan's Blend a try. I smoke it pretty regularly and enjoy almost every bowl to one degree or another. I have found it to be a tasty, simple, easy packing, easy smoking all day kind of mix of different virginias in a longish ribbon cut, with a mild tasty topping/casing that does not detract at all from the experience in my opinion. Looks like strings of shiny gold, a very pretty and approchable tobacco.
I have heard/read all kinds of rumors and speculation about different BW blends, but in my admittedly very limited experience I have not been able to find many other VAs as casually reliable and approachable as Dan's blend, although certainly I have had plenty that are more interesting and provide a more revelatory smoking experience, so to speak.
I've got a metric crapload of it in storage...be happy to send you a sample if you like.