If the ketchup smell is bothorsome crack the tin and leave it ajar for a few hours, close and revisit in a week. It dissipates some. Aug 9, 26, 30, Helena, Alabama. This one is waiting to get popped next. My goal was to fully explore this genre.
I actually crave that McClelland fermented smell of a fresh popped tin, and it makes me salivate as soon as I whiff it. However, so far I have found that the differences in these blends are very very subtle, even more subtle than the taste of Virginia by itself. Thanks for posting this, and I look forward to popping my tin also. So far my two favorites are the Blakeney's processed flakes and Pebblecut. Pebblecut offers such a variety of flavors throughout the bowl and a medium but substantial nic fix, that I went ahead and bought twenty tins to keep back for aging.
If you haven't tried it, I think that you will be awed. I know of no other blend on the market that is aged 5 years before being released. From what I know, if a flake is aged, or "kept in the presses," it is two weeks. It's tying up capital. Oct 31, 1. Nothing compares,out Mc Clelland planet,this fabulous flake. By the way not easy to rub out but in perfect moist for smoking from the tin. Of course is present the infamous ketchup scent for ones and most exquisite maturing aroma to other happy people like this humble reviewer.
I wonder why so scarce opinions. To be fully honest I declare no biting at all but in meers or cobs,in a briar becomes,for me,overhemly strong. Ever so slightly broken, lightly mottled, tangy smelling, flakes with a good moistness to them. Due to them being a touch broken an assiduous hand isn't needed to prepare them; they crumble quite easily, albeit, I just fold and stuff. The smoke? A very fortuitous one! A bowl ignites simply, and proves, as always with McC', they were at the top of their game!
The flavour isn't as tart, tangy or sticky as a lot of their Virginias, but somewhat 'drier', and more barren; that's NOT meant to sound bad! After the halfway point the smoke begins to taste more seasoned, with a subtle flavour of pepper.
Excellent flavor, bright and red flavors play together and bring a smooth creamy smoke with deep and high notes. I miss this blend and it has not left my cellar completely yet. An excellent symphonic achievement by McClelland. To my tastes, they often hit or miss on Virginias.
I should say that i sometimes don't love their virginias, taste being a subjective matter, not that they "miss" in the sense of a criticism of their blending ability. Just that i sometimes dont get what I'd hoped for from them.
Not so here. This flake has the quintessential mcclelland scent in the tin, near perfect symmetry of flavor between brightness and depth, and showcases some virginia flavors that i wasn't familiar with but are exquisite.
Sour dry tart notes balance the familiar sweet fermented fruit here. If, like me, your virginia palette tends to emphasize the yellows, this would be a phenomenal entry into what quality reds and oranges can bring. Midbowl and beyond this really deepens and widens into something rich and beguiling. Ive stocked up, because this is some truly complex, flavorful tobacco for contemplative evenings.
Very highly recommended. An excellent blend to read a book with for one since it doesnt require ones full attention and two it is an indoor smoke. Mild with a decent nicotine hit. The light brown with blonde streaked broken flakes come at the perfect moisture level and are very pliable for packing. Medium across the board with a wonderful room note.
It's a palette cleanser smoke. The flavor is a lemony rich virginia with a dash of perique hiding in the background. It's a very light but complex virginia flavor. Mine came dry which is odd for McClelland. Doesn't really matter though. Awesome smoke. You can't go wrong with this if it's your thing. It's a mild to medium virginia flake with a pinch of perique.
Mild to Medium in the nicotine department. I guess I'll finally throw in the towel on this one and promise to get back if something changes for the better. The tin of Boston used for the review had 3 years on it, which I hoped would make the aged tobacco inside even better. Presentation is dense, separated flakes about the consistency of the average fruitcake, with a look and feel that suggests it is dryer than other flakes I am accustomed to smoke straight from the tin.
Tin note is mostly aged, pressed VA, sweetened and subtly rich, with a spice medley that I kept sniffing until I came up with apple pie spices, including ginger. I suppose the humectant is propylene glycol, but whatever it is, it hasn't worked for me so far.
If I dry it out, the best part of it disappears. If I smoke it near original moisture, it hardly burns. One way or the other, I cannot simply fold, twist and stuff a flake, but I am stuck rubbing it out, drying it, and then rubbing some more, then packing it very loosely. No matter what I've done, I've had to re-light often. Smoked near "tin-wet", B is rich, quite sweet, and the spices make for a fairly heady, exotic smoke, right from the match. Have no idea of the vintage as I received this tobacco in my NST trade way back when.
I have been smoking this tobacco very sparely, trying to "get" it. It is a bit of a PITA to get lit and running, and I was forced to relight the bowl several times during the burn, that after taking a beast of a char. This stuff just won't get burning for me, nor has it ever. I tamp, pack light, pack dense, let dry, rub out, and otherwise fiddle with this stuff to no avail as it invariably fizzles.
Not quite an all day smoke. Three and a half stars. The tin note is very pungent of fermentation. Some people say it's vinegar, some ketchup, some bbq sauce. To me it just smells like fermented stuff.
The broken flakes were pretty dry in my sample, which is how I like them. It took some work to rub this out. I tried stuffing some flakes in and smoking it like that, but I got much better burns with rubbing it out.
The taste is noticeably tangy in the nice way that red VAs can be tangy, which I much prefer to the sweeter end of the VA spectrum. There is apparently a little bit of some oriental leaf here, which I'm guessing contributes to the slight spice that comes through as background radiation. It'd be nice if this were still around, but I'm not crying about it. Check it out if you get a chance, because it's really good.
My first tin of was back in and the blend already had 5 years in the tin. Upon finishing my first bowl, all I could conjure up as a taste comparison was tiramisu with raspberries. Over the years I've acquired more tins of this wondrous blend and enjoy each bowl as much as that first. Thank you Bob Hamlin and McClelland for creating this and sharing it with us.
Hello all, this is my first review on Tobaccoreviews. Let's get to it, shall we? Unfortunately i smoked them all!
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