Nope, not anymore. The McClelland Virginias make more of a difference than the age.
Bummer. Still smoke em if yuh got em. I'm gonna enjoy these few tins and then say good night I suppose
Yenidje Highlander was in a similar vein, but it too was made by McClelland.
I kick myself for having primarily smoked aromatics back when mcclellands was still around. The 40th anniversary and Christmas cheer I have is superb. Not to mention the company ethos, aesthetic, and dedication to quality tobacco is one that is not easily replicable. I spend a silly amount of time missing them and wishing I had plumbed the depths of their offerings more thoroughly. Oh well.
I only heavily cellared Yenidje Highlander, Christmas Cheer, and 40th Anniversary out of all they offered.
I recently purchase a little over a pound of CC. But other than the one tin of 40th, one frog morton, and 3 tins of oriental mixture I'm stuck combing through tinbids when my paycheck hits lol. I'm very curious about their grand oriental series. No one else has chosen to/is able to focus so specifically and charmingly on individual oriental varietals. It is very endearing and speaks volumes of their passion.
You might enjoy listening to the couple of Pipes Magazine Radio Show episodes featuring McClelland owners Mike and Mary McNiel, if you haven’t already. They were unique personalities within the industry (to me, Mike particularly represents a true iconoclast), and they—and their products—are irreplaceable.
Sometimes inexplicably. Three Nuns, for instance, is marketed as “the blend that C.S. Lewis smoked,” but it isn’t. Not really. The original Three Nuns was a Virginia spun cut with a perique center. Today’s version, produced by MacBaren, is, bafflingly, a Virginia spun cut with a Kentucky burley center.
I think they might. McClelland was one of the few blenders with a distinct brand identity in terms of their blend flavors and leaf quality. I think that would be even more appealing now, when we’re seeing so many formerly independently produced blends being released (or re-released) by only a small handful of major manufacturers, such as MacBaren, STG, and K&K. In the midst of ever-more consolidation and genericizing among brands and blends, the boutique producers with unique flavor profiles and unique preferences would stand out even more than in the past.
Three Nuns has gone through several permutations by it's various rights owners, including a Kentucky DFK version and that's the version that MacBaren mistakenly bought. They thought that they were buying the rights to the Perique version.
Probably not. With the exception of a few of their blends, Dark Star, the Cheers, Frogs, and a few of the Numbers, people didn't really talk about them here. It was more about H&H, MacBaren, SG, G&H, Germains, Rattray's, etc. C&D generally got mentioned as a joke when it got mentioned at all.
Poor Cornell and diehl seem to have a grim spectre on their back. Still regardless of criticisms they do offer an affordable, readily available product that is pretty good. I prefer GL peases blends, but their tobacco seems good enough for peases blends purposes so. A shame i only really awoke to some of the better stuff as tobaccos time twilights. Some of you all really took it for granted
. But you're always gonna long for what you don't have. Best to live in the present I suppose
C&D/ Please comprise 90% of my cellar. I Love 'emPoor Cornell and diehl seem to have a grim spectre on their back. Still regardless of criticisms they do offer an affordable, readily available product that is pretty good. I prefer GL peases blends, but their tobacco seems good enough for peases blends purposes so. A shame i only really awoke to some of the better stuff as tobaccos time twilights. Some of you all really took it for granted
