Same. The ability to get a Christmas Cheer type offering out of season was too much temptation.
Remembering McClelland Red Virginias
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Not very close at all.
im going to go with three blends
McCrannies Red Ribbon
5100
40th Anniversary
McCrannies Red Ribbon
5100
40th Anniversary
For me, 40th anniversary and the Christmas Cheers are always special. This was a company that always placed an emphasis on high quality. Makes me think that perhaps all their offerings were solid, personally didn’t try all their blends, but their ‘house style’ might have not been on everyone’s taste. Like many other things in life…
The way I see it, they, Mary and Mike, are master craftspeople that plied their trade in a very specific niche market using choice raw material in a tumultuous time of the American tobacco trade. I hope that we’ll see other dedicated professionals like them in the future.
The way I see it, they, Mary and Mike, are master craftspeople that plied their trade in a very specific niche market using choice raw material in a tumultuous time of the American tobacco trade. I hope that we’ll see other dedicated professionals like them in the future.
A lot of their blends really did it for me. The Frog Morton series was especially delightful.
Isn't that the truth... I understood the bbq sauce aroma on tin pop but it didn't affect the smoke for me.
I wasn't the biggest fan but I LOVED FMotT, FMC and Blue Mountain. I miss those. There were others I liked and wish I could get my hands on again but if they were on the shelf and they weren't closing shop I'd likely pass them up
I did not care for their aromatic, except I did like the bulk 2000 blend (red VA flake with some kinda old fashioned faint topping).
There is no replacement for their VA blends, nor their Grand Oriental blends
There is no replacement for their VA blends, nor their Grand Oriental blends
Boston 1776, Brindle Flake, Mature Virginia 24 & 27, Honeydew, all of the Grand Orientals, Blackwoods, 40th Anniversary, Red & Black.
I never smoked one that wasn't worthy of a second bowl.
I never smoked one that wasn't worthy of a second bowl.
No kidding. When Yenidje Highlander was discontinued a few years before McClelland went out, I searched it out and managed to get 3 dozen tins before they disappeared.
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5100 was the bees knees. Nothing else even comes close.
its funny, i thought 40th was a crowning glory. This was until I tried 5100. So hard to come by, but Red Ribbon is pretty similar.
Why I found the few blends I like, and cellared deep, not wide.
The folks who decry the McCllelland tang and the Lakeland houses' "grannies' panties" haven't tried to understand these tobaccos. May their weightless opinions float up into the sky.
Same
Much poundage of my cellar is only a few blends. Had I not commissioned a pipe for Yenidje Highlander, I likely wouldn't have gone so crazy with it.
Or they just don't like them. Many here swear by Stonehaven but I find it to be the nastiest tobacco I've ever smoked. When it comes to the subjectivity of tastes, all opinions are weightless.
The only one i've tried so far is CC 2014 and I really liked that. I've got a couple of other CC in the cellar that I bought on the secondary market and a tin of 40th that I purchased when it first went on sale.
40th is my go-to, but Aurora was surprisingly a fantastic blend. Glad I grabbed a couple tins on whim. I also enjoy 5115 that I mixed with perique and tucked away. It's turned out great.
So many others I could go on about but I won't.