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By Bob Tate
The tin aroma of this blend is a nice sweet and tangy straight forward tobacco smell. It smells pretty good. The moisture content is perfect for smoking right away. I loaded up my pipe and proceeded to the charring light. Upon the charring light, I am greeted by a straight forward tobacco taste and aroma accompanied by a slight sweetness. There is also a sort of a sharpness to it has well. I detect the sharpness on my palate, but it is not a bite. That may be the Kentucky tobacco. I finished lighting the pipe to see where this blend would go.
At the start, I taste a nice naturally sweet tobacco taste. There is a bit of fullness to the smoke that I would attribute to the Kentucky. The sharpness is still there, but it moved more to the background. There is some smokiness to it as well, but not a Latakia smokiness. It’s more of a natural straight type of smokiness. The sweetness is very light and subtle and seems to be detected more on the finish than the actual smoke.
Around the 3/4 point, I started to detect a strong presence of plum and spice. The strength also seemed to pick up a little bit at this point. Around the half bowl point, the plum and spice retreated to the background a bit, but the strength remained. Around the last 1/4 of the bowl, the plum and spice started coming back into the forefront and the taste remained that way until the end.
This is a full bodied, straight forward tobacco tasting smoke. The Kentucky is definitely the focal point of this blend and dominates it. There seems to be just enough Perique to add some plum and spice to it and the Virginias are there to add just a slight amount of sweetness to break it up a bit and bring some harmony to the blend. This is definitely a blend to smoke later in the day and make sure that you have a bite to eat before smoking it. I would almost put it in the same category as Peterson Irish Flake as far as the strength goes.
This is a strange blend for me. I do like it and it has all of the attributes that I normally love in a blend, but I don’t know how often that I would smoke it. It is made of high quality tobaccos and smokes slow, cool, dry, and doesn’t bite. It is a very good blend, but it isn’t setting off any bells and whistles for me. I don’t know if it is the pipe that I chose to smoke it in, if I smoked it too early in the day, or because I didn’t eat before I smoked it. It is a blend that I will keep on hand, even though it wouldn’t be an everyday smoke for me. I will continue to re-visit it in different pipes and at different times and circumstances.
I image that this would be a great smoke after a hearty meal. If you like straight forward tobacco blends that pack a punch, I definitely suggest that you give Cumberland a try.
I Recommend it.
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Brand: G.L. Pease
Blend: Cumberland
Description:Robust and possessing a subdued sweetness, Cumberland is a delightfully orchestrated suite of American tobaccos. Featuring a rare and exquisite mahogany Kentucky aged in bales for 20 years. Red and matured Virginias establish a theme; the Kentucky and a pianissimo of Perique create the variations. Pure natural tobacco flavors are harmonized by delicate arpeggios and underscored by deep resonant tones. The coda is lovely and lingering — a perfect finish to a rich performance. Best savored slowly.
Country: US
Cut: Coarse Cut
Tobaccos: Kentucky, Virginia, Perique
Strength: Full
Taste: Tobacco, Plum, Spice, Slightly Sweet
Room Note: Pleasant to Tolerable
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sapo59 said:
Great review Bob. You always find a way to make a blend sound great, so much tobacco so little time.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:44 PM
lbarraa said:
Dear Bob:
Cumberland is one of my favorites GL Pease´s Tobaccos. Two month a go, I get by ebay a couple of tins from 2004… and that was a revelation, this tobacco gets better trought the years. This the only addition to your review.
It´s a tobacco for the evening, and in a small pipe is a good option for start the day with a cup of coffe.
Bests
Luis Barra
March 10th, 2010 at 7:52 PM
cortezattic said:
That brings back memories Bob. I only had one tin, and I’m not going out of my way to buy another. But if I had another tin I would smoke it immediately. Call it indifferent enthusiasm. LOL
It’s been a few weeks since I polished-off that tin, but if memory serves, it had a cedar-like quality that kept me coming back to it. Not terribly far from a codger burley type smoke.
March 10th, 2010 at 10:52 PM
ATL said:
This is one of the best Burley/Virginia blends you will ever find. It is delicious, complex, and very rustic. This is such an old school blend, that I could see it being smoked back in the day…….way back! Anyway, I would recommend smoking this blend out of a Cob pipe(particularly a Hackert Cob). Briar for some reason just doesn’t do it justice. Seriously, this is an excellent 4 star blend that just gets better! Highly recommend!
March 21st, 2010 at 9:43 PM
MarkSpizer said:
great post as usual!
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:09 AM
Kevin said:
I’m smoking Cumberland for the first time and I like it. I’m smoking it at 2 in the afternoon after some hearty Ropa Vieja for lunch. It is a nice old-school Burley / Virginia taste like ATL says, and it does become fuller as it goes. I am definitely getting a little of the cedar that cortezattic mentioned too.
The sweetness is very faint, but I am getting woodiness, spice and a little hint of pepper.
It’s not kicking my butt like Irish Flake does, which is a good thing.
August 1st, 2010 at 2:00 PM