McClelland - Dominican Glory pipe tobacco reviews

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Noorrmm	09/04/2005	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
This blend was surprising in several areas: 1. It did not have the usual McC "vinegar" tang. 2. It did not have much cigar flavor. That being said, it was not a bad blend. The ribbon cut meant it was easy to load into any size pipe and easy to light. It took flame easily and remained quite cool under normal puffing rates. Neither can I say that it was a really good blend, as it was quite bland and uninteresting. The Virginias never bloomed with the sweetness I expected, nor did the cigar leaf make more than momentery appearences. I tried it in various size pipes, at differnt times of the day. At best, it has to be considered a "breakfast blend"; mild enough for all day, but not nearly interesting enough to smoke more than bowl.
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stoic066	04/11/2005	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I received my sample from Nightcap junkie who had tried almost all english, oriental, virginia and 'cigar' leaf tobaccos. Fortunately for me he does not like any of them so I get to smoke them. My sample was neatly dated on the bottom of the can 10/15/97. Nicely aged so my opinion may differ from others. I personally do not like McClelland tobaccos. This one however I liked. This is not a complex tobacco by any means but virginias seem to blend nicely with ' cigar ' leaf. No tongue bite at all and weed is even tasting to the bottom of the bowl. No condensation but tobacco was bone dry probably from being stored in unsealed can. Overall nice change of pace but probably not a daily smoke.
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Darth 69	01/06/2005	Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
A McClelland disaster! Another victory in missing the mark. A base of cigar leaf ribbon seasoned with small broken virginia flake with quite a lot of humicant added. Not much flavor comes through, smokes somewhat wet and the virginia flake is so moist that it effectively will not burn. I think I know what they are trying to do, cigar filler tobacco types are actually very bland and dry by nature. Anyone who has experimented with smoking cigar leaf in a pipe has found out. By adding a humicant it makes the cigar leaf more pliable to work with(from being to brittle) and to remove the "dry Bite." But the result is a blend of no refinement and lack of character. This really needs to be reconceptualized for it to be a worthy product. -Not recommended
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A. Morley Jaques	08/10/2004	Mild to Medium	None detected	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant to Tolerable
Whatever McClelland's has to offer has come up short in this blend. I don't like cigars as it is, but the least they could have done was add some good Virginia leaf, lord knows they have enough of it, as opposed to whatevet flat-tasting, orange detritis they chose as a base for Dominican Glory. I will say that there were a few times, though I don't know how I managed, that I woud get a whiff of that smokey Virginia tang that has keped me loyal to McClelland's for years. The two or three times that I experienced this, however were not enpugh to justify my having to pay for it. Rgards, A. Morley Jaques
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WNDE	09/24/2003	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I?ve been an on-again-off-again pipe smoker for some time now but I?ve been a regular smoker of cigars for twenty years so I wanted to weight in on this blend as a cigar lover. I like this blend. The red Virginias dominate the blend and the cigar leaf is very light. I think this gives it a good balance because it is a pipe blend and not a cigar so the cigar leaf doesn?t overwhelm the Virginias. I like the taste of a good red Virginia anyway so I found this blend?s taste to be very satisfying and the room aroma excellent. I initially wanted to try the Maduro as that is the type of cigar I like to smoke but the company that sent this to me sent the wrong tin. Oh, well, the Maduro will have to wait for another time. I have the feeling that if I smoke this style of blend on a regular basis I will probably smoke the Maduro. If I enjoy the Maduro as much as I enjoyed this blend then this will definitely become a part of my regular rotation.
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WxGuy	09/24/2003	Mild	Very Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
What a disappointment Dominician Glory is!. I am a big cigar fan (yeah, I like little cigars, too) and thought that this might be ticket for those times when a quick cigar fix was in order. Wrong!!!. This stuff seems to bring the worst of the two worlds together. The dominican is flat and bitter, w/o the compensating cigariness. The virginias seemed out of place and just adds a bite that good cigars never seem to have. Cigars are supposed to have a bitter edge but also very rich, full body that DG misses by a mile. This blend reminds me of really cheap machine-rolled cigars of the drug-store variety. If that is your bent, then you may like this stuff. If, however, you like good hearty long-filler, hand-made Central American cigars, spend your money on those instead. Oh, yeah, I can't believe that the maduro variety would be much of an improvement.
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Inquisitor	11/24/2002	Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
There is nothing bad about this blend. In fact, it is fairly enjoyable. It is hard to describe why it "misses." Like most cigar blends, this one tries to blend cigar and pipe tobaccos to get the best of both worlds. Those "worlds" clash more than integrate here. The cigar flavor is very light, and I would call it more of a condiment than a major element. I don't think that the cigar tobacco is that wonderful. Where it intersects with the pipe tobacco, there is a slight ashy-bitterness, which, while not offensive, does not make you want to smoke this for a long time. The flavor elements of the matured Virginias are somewhat obscured by the bitterness as well, producing a slightly muddled sense. My advice: If you want a flavorful cigar/pipe blend, try Robert McConnell's "Pure Havana". If you want a pipe tobacco with cigar nuances, try Robert McConnell's Maduro. With those two blends available to me, I don't see the point in keeping MDG in my rotation.
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Willy	08/23/2002	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild	Tolerable
This will be brief. I really like McC. blends, they are a mainstay for me. I first tried this and thought HMM, not bad. I guess it was the newness. Some will like this, but for me, keep cigar tobacco in a cigar and pipe tobacco in a pipe. To be fair, w/o the cigar leaf I think this would be a nice red VA blend. It seems familiar, I wonder.......
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Pipestud	04/21/2002	Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild	Strong
I took a 100g tin of this blend to my pipe club meeting a few months ago. About a dozen veteran puffers were excited to sample for the first time, a pipe blend made of cigar leaf. They were all disappointed. Not much flavor here, and the consensus was that it would probably make for a fine, mild cigar if rolled up. If you enjoy cigars, buy one. If you enjoy pipe tobacco, don't go after this stuff!
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