Sutliff Tobacco Company Matured Red Virginia 515 RC-1

Jar note of sharp vinegary, hay and tart stewed fruit. Tobacco is a ribbon cut of reddish brown and dark brown. Moisture content is ok, most pipe smokers will want to dry it out a bit. Burns slow with a few relights. The strength is mild to medium and nic is mild. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium and very consistent, with notes of vinegary sour, very bready, tart citrus, sugar, acidic, spices, zesty, lemon grass, dry wood, savory, rich earth, hay, floral, a semi-sweet tangy dark fruit background note, and a peppery retro. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is great.

It's been several years since I last tried MC Red Cake, but I remember it to be a mellow and sweet blend.

This blend is richer and tastier, in my humble opinion. In the bag, the leaf smells like it was sprayed with apple cider vinegar, not ketchup. When lit, it gives a full taste... tangy, a little sweet, and overall very delicious. It smokes cool and doesn't bite, but it has an astringent quality to it, very similar to sipping vinegar; so I suspect vinegar was used as a casing to this blend. It's also quite strong when exhaled through the nose... it nearly burned my nose hairs and that sensation stayed with me a long time during the smoke.

Overall, it's a unique blend and I enjoyed the experience and will buy some more. Highly recommended.

Sweet yet tart. Slight vinegar with very mild metallic mouth feel. Plenty of Virginia characteristics. An interesting fruitiness. Mine needed some drying out. Still moist in mason jar after four years. Over all taste keeps growing on me as I proceed down the bowl. Top shelf smoke. Enjoyable all the way down. I'm inclined to say a very clean smoke with no bite nor any harshness. Yum.

HOLY COW!!! Finally found a good replacement for McClelland's Red-Cake!! Haven't had anything this close compare! Oh Happy Day!

I am a HUGE fan of all McClelland blends and was devastated when they closed their doors. Since, I have been on the hunt to find any blends that can either replicate or at least come close to some of these blends. I haven't found any direct replacements.

However, I have yet to find any the directly correlate, though I will share on this forum if I find any for those interested.

With all that being said, this blend seems to be a good replacement, not exact replica, for McClelland's 5100 RedCake. I'm going to experiment with adding this tobacco to a few others to see how close I can get to some McClelland blends.

It's a nice ribbon cut of red and brown tobaccos that loads and lights easily with the standard two light method. It stayed lit easy with light tamping and regular sipping. It had some rough edges if sipped too hard or too often. Otherwise it was a perfectly sweet, sour, tangy, bready and just a bit toasty. Flavors remind me of all the VAs in the McC. blends. Love it!! This will be a go-to and staple from me going forward.

Coming forward as a simple ribbon cut presentation, the bulk 515 RC-1 production encompasses an honest grandstanding of choice matured Red Virginian leaf. Although I do get a sense there is just an inkling of Bright hiding within based upon the acknowledgeable nose and developing taste registration. Nevertheless, the premier quality of this arrangement, as one will discover, is on the focused importance of wholesomely dense Red strains assembled in an unassuming yet captivating manner. What is more, this straightforward mixing encounters with a picture-perfect degree of optimum moistness.

Primarily dark in composure, the blend demonstrates an inviting face of common red/brown-casted goodness. Offering a reasonably contained pouch aroma, as you would have it, the fundamentally sweet tangy essence registers with a full charge of aged Virginian wood, seasoned fruity earthiness, and some subdued weathered hay, for all purposes sequestered by the undeniable presence of sourly determined vinegar.

With an easeful packing effort, 515 RC-1 lends itself to a well-mannered smoking experience overall as the general mechanical performance and creature comforts make for a truly enjoyable excursion. And even though the mixture is less presumptuous vibrato or staged complexity, the end flavorsomeness achieved by Sutliff’s efforts proved to be quite noteworthy.

In a beautifully ordinary fashion, the mild-medium tobacco projects a consistently warm comforting flavor of rustic wood as its base tempered character. Building some ornamental context, one can denote the active commenting of a sweet, tanged spiciness that tastefully annotates and surrounds this wooded surface. Being well cultured in its accenting influence, this embellishment records reliably in grooming the predominant matured flavor with a subtle and suggestive wine-like quality.

Still further, additive colorizing takes the form of some complementing nuances of muted caramel, fleeting bread, and a mellowed citrus hay. Last, the registration also reveals a run of darker fruit, seasoned floral-ness, sour tart, and an abiding tinge of common malty sweeter vinegar. Not overly charismatic as to actual streaming movement on the whole, keep in mind. However, it should be noted that the savor of the minimally embellished tobacco is clearly of a steady character, being perhaps one of the finest straight Red Virginian offerings that I have yet had the pleasure to be satiated by.

Functionally, the production of resulting smoke plumage is of ample body for a conventional Virginian specimen, leaving a warm inviting aroma of reserved sweet-tart earthen, spiced wood. Foreseeably pleasant to tolerant in received demeanor, 515 RC-1 is properly classed as a welcomed companion for the avid Red Virginia enthusiast. Similarly, there is little doubt that this Sutliff blend would make for a nice introduction to those embarking on an new adventure in experiencing this particular varietal.

So, with a final thought, I suppose the tobacco could equally serve as a nice representative mixing component, but let me tell you, as a standalone experience it remains delightedly pleasurable indeed. Its tasteful simplicity is generously magnanimous in impact, in a word. My friends if you do enjoy the darker renditions afforded by a quality Red Virginian selection, or by chance you are an unfortunate virgin to this wonderful strain, then I highly recommend that you take the opportunity to discover the truth of that assertion for yourself. Go grab a pipeful and slowly sip its drawing marvel. Needless to say, I don’t believe you will be a tad disappointed in the least. 3.6 Pipes

This is as close to McClelland 5100 as you're going to find. Just add some Perique and all is well. Just a damn fine blending Virginia.

If it's like 5100, I think it's more like Scotty's Old Red(it's gone off the market),except this one is a little more powerful.

I like the vinegar mixture, which reduces alkaline burns. and in addition to smoking it, I'm now ready to toss again.