I have tried many of the cigar leaf blends - McClelland, C&D, GLP, and tried blending some up myself with various other constituent tobaccos.
I have come to a conclustion in my sampling. When I want cigar taste, I smoke a cigar - when I want pipe taste, I smoke my pipe. When I want a little of both, I have one first and then the other.
What is nice, is that a 50 (or 50+) RG cigar will fit nicely into a couple of my pipes, so when it gets down to the nub, and can put a bit of pipe tobacco in the bottom of the bowl (or not) and then put the nub into the bowl, cherry end up and smoke it. Means I get to finish a cigar completely.