McClelland - Grand Orientals: Yenidje Supreme pipe tobacco reviews

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ROTHNH	06/06/2013	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I just popped a tin of this stuff and I gotta say it delivers. This tin, too, though just received, was canned in 2007. It's just the right moisture and I don't find the ubiquitous Mickey C "ketchup" here (though I don't mid that at all in other blends). It lights easily, smokes cool, is sweet and a little peppery (just enough, not too much). There's just enough Turkish Yenidje (Xanthi) in this blend and it never overwhelms the fine virginias. It's a mild smoke, but flavorful. It doesn't bite. The retrohale is nice. The room note, while not exemplary, is good and wife-friendly. Kind of reminds me of Balkan Sobranie 759 in a way, especially when the sweetness kicks in. Burns cleanly to a fine white ash. If you like Orientals, without the lakatia to obfuscate the flavors, this virginia-forward blend is sure to please.
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Passion	05/16/2013	Mild to Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
Yenidje adds a sweet and subtley herbal flavor. A unique treat found in many less than stellar blends, this is a blend that truly exemplifies the Yenidje (Xanthi) flavor profile. A must try!
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Dr. Scott	03/22/2012	Mild to Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant
A very mild McClelland with just enough Yenidje to flavor the blend without overwhelming the Virginias, YS is a beautiful example of Mac's Grand Orientals. It tastes so good, you won't mind the paucity of nicotine. A perfect morning smoke, without a hint of tongue bite, you can puff as hard as you like. YS is an ideal blend for the novice pipe smoker and a perfect companion to the veteran. Although I wrote that you can puff hard as you like, I must qualify that statement. The favors in this blend are fragile and subtle. The slower you sip this one, the more you will get out of it.
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Peppino	08/30/2011	Mild	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I smoked this in a Charatan HM and it was great. This a special tobacco that fits an unusual void. It has good burning qualities and a nice aroma, the sweetness arrives about mid bowl. This was also found in the 759 blend back in the day. The virginia can be tasted more than you might think, the yenidge add's a backround flavor and sweetness to the blend. So if you favor Va's this is one you should try for a change of pace. If your looking for something to relax and sip, this is one of those blends. Give it a try. A good tobacco that's great on the re-light! Leaves a good clean ash, one of my important factors. 4 stars
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Nikolaos	07/31/2011	Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild	Tolerable
Torelable for oriental blend, not somethink special, very few amount of Basma leaf too much ketchap inside.. i prefare Smyrna No1 100% (Nikolas/Greece)
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Nick O'Teen	02/15/2011	Mild	None detected	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
A very disappointing blend to this reviewer's palate. This one does have a very subtle, sweet taste but not nearly enough of it. As I progress thru the bowl, the question, "Is this all there is" keeps coming to mind. I do like orientals but will look elsewhere to find a suitable blend.
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Unsal	10/10/2010	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
An excellent tobacco. Highly Recommended.
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strongirish	08/10/2010	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
I find this to be an interesting blend. I usually like Orientals as a spice not the main player but I find this blend to be quite enjoyable. It has a burst of flavor from first light and it does not fade all the way down. Quite sweet and tangy but with a a creaminess as well. The leaves and buds of this blend are wuite small, making it very easy to load the pipe and light. I covers the brown color spectrum from very light to very dark in a fine ribbon cut. It has a sweet, musky almost perfumy aroma in the pouch, yet it does not have the perfume taste of any topping. It has a medium full flavor but no bite at all and for some could be an all day smoke. It has a pleasant but not great room note, would not offend anyone but would never get the yum aroma of a lot of blends. It smokes down to a clean powdery ash that it gray and black intermingled. Smokes very dry and is a great sipping tobacco to go with a drink. This tobacco does not gain anything down the bowl stays consistant throughout. I do recommend trying this one. Note: no Ketchup aroma with this one.
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Xeneize	06/22/2010	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Tolerable
This is the one I like the most from the Grand Orientals line. It shares the common features of Orientals mixtures, but this one is a bit sweeter and the less flavored (just a slight ketchup taste). Oddly, I find it more similar to Black Sea Sokhoum than to Yenidje Highlander. 3.5 stars.
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Marshall Law	05/30/2010	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
The other reviews here have covered this blend aptly. Sweet, mild, slightly tangy, flavorful, and an easy prospect to pack, light, and fry down to the depths of the bowl without the need to relight. Interesting enough to encourge me to fire up a second bowl consecutively. A memorable smoke that has earned its way into my rotation. This blend likes a wide bowl to develop its full flavors, and a tighter packing to burn cool and even. Although dominated by the classic, tangy McClelland's virginias, the presence of the oriental is undeniable, distinct, intriguing, and quite satisfying. Stays with you pleasantly for some time after the smoke. Sweeter and far more flavorful than the Agonya blend. Tangier and less sweet than Black Sea Sokhoum, slightly less fragrant than the impeccable Samsun, bolder but less nuanced than the delicate Drama and Katerini. It is immediately evident how well this particular oriental will blend with latakia, and I can distinctly taste this particular oriental in several of McClelland's English and Balkan blends. Three stars.
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WmZiggy	01/22/2010	Mild	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
BriarChef and OlFatguy "hit the nail on the head" with their reviews. Although I have never been a cigarette smoker, Balkan Sobranie 759 was my 'go to' tobacco in college that introduced me to Yenidje, and I have never forgotten it. This blend takes me back to those days, only without the Latakia punch. Smoked this one in an old and wonderful Comoy Rhodesian which afforded my nose the occasional French sniff. Ambrosia! Enough said.
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sagesmoke	01/22/2010	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable

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pipe aficionado	11/03/2009	Mild	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant
A subtle blend. The initial light up is satisfactory--a gentle Va. is all I detect at first. At that point it's a little plain for my taste. But about a quarter of the way in the oriental announces itself, not loudly but distinctly. It is present for the rest of the smoke, and it complements the Virginia nicely. This is hardly a powerful tobacco. Its elegance is the chief appeal. I smoke a range of different tobaccos: latakia, Virginias, cigar leaf, burley, and various combinations--I like them all, as a rule the stronger the flavor the better. Yendige Supreme is the exception. It's the mildest tobacco in my rotation, but it is so interesting that it will remain there for the foreseeable future. Four stars.
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Alguhan	08/03/2009	Mild to Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
One of the best orientals I've smoked. The McClelland's usual sour smell, lots of smokers name it ketchup, adds a very particular flavor to this blend. I air dried the tobacco and smoked it daily one bowl after another. Will be a great pleasure to smoke it again as soon as possible. Here you can taste a very good quality of oriental tobacco blend with an unforgetible play of spices on your taste buds.
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Tyro	06/23/2009	Mild	None detected	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
I have two ratings on this blend... For the first few minutes after the initial light or after a relight, until the burn rate stabilizes, this stuff is as foul as you can get... my simpletons description is green, sour and like licking an ashtray... so 1 star. Drying out might help here. However... once the tobacco enters the 'zone' it can be smooth and sublime... so 4 stars plus here. Overall I must rate it a generous 3 stars... as an enthusiastic novice I can't maintain the perfect temperature indefinitely and suffering through the transitions is painful. My Grand Oriental, Sexy Seductress is Katerini Classic which I consider to be extremely underrated (good for me because that means I can quietly buy all I can afford and still expect that its in stock) I am definitly enamored with that classy lady!
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DK	02/22/2009	Mild	None detected	Mild	Very Pleasant
Once I got past my disappointment at the lack of any real immediacy of taste of the oriental leaf, I began to see the truth strengths of this blend. As another reviewer mentioned, when I want a heavier taste of oriental leaf, I'll fire up some Red Rapparee! That said, this is a very solid virginia blend from the Masters of the virginia blend! It had quite a bit of the McClellands Bulk #5100 Red Cake flavor, with a slight added piquancy from the oriental. I found most of the oriental presence to be in the bouquet, which I found exquisite! I was constantly waving the smoke into my face so I could experience that great aroma. As for taste, this is what I would call a "steady Eddie", that doesn't noticeably develop down the bowl and isn't terribly complex. With so many excellent tobaccos out there, I don't know if a repeat performance is in the works with this one, but I'm very glad I smoked a tin of it. If I ever do try it again, I may add some blending oriental to it, or perhaps some perique. Note: My tin is over two years old and I got the best results in a meerschaum. For what it's worth.
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arpie55	01/20/2009	Mild	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
very boring and one dimensional! i found very little to praise this tobacco for except for the honest tobacco taste and clean, complete burn. as i continued through the tin i had the same thought that others have expressed "it needs a little something more" so i tried adding a little blending perique- it did nothing for it. i smoke the whole tin but i assure you i will not go back for seconds.
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Big Nick	01/06/2009	Mild	None detected	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
This one was a real dissapointment for me. It was a little over a year ago that I read all of the great reviews for this blend and I, "had to get some". It was a little pricey but you know how it goes, this is 4 star stuff and I, "had to get some". Well, here I am about 15 months later, I've consumed about ten pipe fulls, they've produced about eight headaches, and every pipefull has left me with the feeling that I smoked a pack of Camels and got lucky with an ashtray. The truth is IMHO of coarse, the first half of the pipe is not bad, slight Virginia sweetness, nice little aroma, but then instead of improving it all just goes to hell. My pipe turns sour and I feel like I'm licking an ashtray, and as an added bonus, that taste stays with me for hours. Oh yippie! Am I stubborn, stupid or what ? When would you have stopped ? Lots of people like this weed,... but me,... I'm done. Confessions of a tobacco junkie.
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quantumboy	11/07/2008	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Y'know that wonderful smell of dry oak leaves while you're raking your yard in autumn? Add McC's classic ketchup smell and that's the tin aroma. Very nice actually. Straight from the tin it was relatively dry. I just carelessly crammed my pipe about half full and lit it up, and it burned perfectly. Upon lighting it's relatively mundane until the bowl warms up. After five minutes it settles into a nice smoky flavor but with the Virginias readily accessible - a good thing for me since I like straight Virginias. It never gets really complex, but it's just a steady supply of mild flavor - a little VA sweetness mixed with a particular earthy taste I haven't experienced elsewhere (the Orientals obviously) and can't really compare to anything else. If you're careful and keep it cool this blend will reward you with a very interesting, relaxing smoke. Don't expect a big buzz, just mellow flavor for a mellow afternoon on the back porch. Three and a half stars...think we'll call it three.
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RMBittner	09/12/2008	Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This review is based on a 2007 tin, opened 9/2008. I was actually reluctant to try this, because I found Yenidje Highlander to be such a transcendant experience. (That blend is glorious, in my opinion.) I was afraid this one couldn't compare. And it doesn't, really. It's a different kind of blend altogether, with a softer Oriental leaf, more Virginias, and no latakia whatsoever. Distinguished by a hint of McClelland's trademark Virginia flavor (which I find enjoyable but which some disparage), this is a straightforward Virginia/Oriental. Despite the tin copy, I didn't find the Xanthi particularly highlighted in the bowl, it's simply a soft Oriental presence throughout the smoke. I kept thinking of other similar tobaccos as I smoked this one. I prefer this to Embarcadero, where I thought the Orientals got lost in the Virginias. (This is where McClelland's unique Virginia flavors help the tobaccos retain more of their own personalities, I think.) And while I enjoy a more-dominant Oriental presence -- as in Red Rapparee or Presbyterian -- Yenidje Supreme delivers a smoother smoke than either of those worthy blends. Smoke it slowly, and give the blend a dedicated pipe while you're trying it out. Bob
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