The best English blend I've had yet! This is what I hoped Elizabethan Mixture would have been (yuck). Mild with all of the notes that one expects of an English blend. Good job McClelland!
Sunday, January 19, 2014
McClelland Jubilee Tobacco quick note
The best English blend I've had yet! This is what I hoped Elizabethan Mixture would have been (yuck). Mild with all of the notes that one expects of an English blend. Good job McClelland!
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Sutliff Private Stock Black Swan Review
I received a tin of this unusual blend from the Pipes and Cigars customer reward box (see my youtube video). I finally got around to smoking it and...WOW! I'm not sure it's even tobacco.
Imagine, if you will, a dessert tobacco! Yes, sweet. Creamy. Vanilla. Caramelly and almost edible. The image above is what the blend looks like. Black, through and through. It is about as far away from Virginias as you can get.
I'm not one for sweet blends, but this is amazing! Like any treat, I'm sure it's easy to have too much of it, but right now, it is a good break from my "serious" tobaccos.
Thumbs up!
Friday, September 20, 2013
McClelland's Tudor Castle and Boston 1776: My favorite blends
Finally I can share my opinion! I have been stockpiling these two blends so that I will always (at least 6 months) have a supply on hand and have been waiting until I had at least that much before blogging about it.
These are amazing blends! Tudor Castle is sweet but not cloying. The yenidje in the blend must add the tasty cinnamon-like flavor that is very appealing. The room note smells like food not smoke.
Boston 1776 is the most refined smoke I've ever had. There is absolutely no edge to it. In fact, when I first smoked it, I thought I had mis-lighted the bowl because it was so light. All I noticed was a slight citrus/lemon taste. This tobacco requires careful attention because it is so subtle.
I highly recommend that anyone who wants a couple of classy smokes that you try these blends. You will be very, very pleased.
Dunhil Elizabethan Mixture re-issue
Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture re-issue.
I've only tried Three Nuns, one of the "re-issues" that has come out recently. They include Three Nuns, Capstan blue and Capstan yellow. Elizabethan Mixture is the latest re-issue of a classic blend and...drum roll...I like it! It's much nicer than Three Nuns (yuck, sorry) and tastes like a mild English blend. Imagine less Latakia and more dark Virginia.
It is a fine ribbon "shag" that lights quickly. Unfortunately that means that there is a tendency to burn too hot and produce a nasty bite.
Overall, I give it high marks and will become my English blend of choice for now.
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