Sutliff Tobacco Company Stoved Virginia #507-S

I use this as a substitute for McClelland's Blackwoods Flake when blending. It does the job, however, it lacks the famous barbecue sauce note. On it's own, it is a good, tangy, easy to smoke Virginia.

A cooked black virginia, with a thick cut and where the predominant flavors are fruity, acidic and especially burnt caramel, similar to the one that is stuck to the bottom of a saucepan that has been used to caramelize sugar. Stays on smoothly and doesn't sting your tongue. Leave a pleasant and tolerable note in the room.

In my particular case it has turned out to be quite an original tobacco, since in my short experience as a pipe smoker I had never tried anything like it. It seems that it is a tobacco made mainly to mix, which I have not tried yet, having only smoked it without mixing with other ingredients.

Despite being rich and recognizing its virtues, it is not one of the Virginias that I liked the most, perhaps because that predominant flavor of caramelized sugar in the long run tires me a bit. For this reason I recommend smoking it in small capacity pipes.

However, I will continue to smoke it to see how it evolves in me.

I can imagine some reviewers trying to mimic some McClelland mixes by adding Stoved Virginia 507-S, as it similarly reproduces the now-defunct brand's toasted virginias. If someone get it and wants to do a service to humanity (pipe-smoking humanity), let them leave their recipe as soon as possible. It will be gratifying ...

Wanted to attempt a reasonable copy of Mc 5110. Asked the man Russ if he could give me some pointers and he did. Blended an equal amount of this stoved black and Ps Latakia. Added about 10% blending Turkish. It was a reasonably good match for my taste. Of couse its not McClelland but we have to take what we can get anymore! Happy blending!

It's taken me a while to come around to this one. TBH and to my tastes, I am not a Sutliff fan at all. I don't like the obvious vinegar tastes, the aromatics put me off, and of most of what I've tried over the years, the quality of the leaves they use just taste cheap to me. I always enjoyed McClelland Virginia's and IMO, I don't believe very many blends out there compare to what McClelland had. I loved McClelland 2035 dark navy flake. It was a very cool burning, sweet, deep, tangy, spicy, and solid flake and I miss that stuff alot. So when sutliff released 507s, I was skeptical of it. I have never had McClelland 5105 stoved virginia so I can't compare them.

For once im smoking a sutliff product that doesn't taste a Pall Mall cigarette soaked in vinegar. No its not a flavor bomb or the best smoke of the century, but it does have decent flavor. And no vinegar thank God!

The bag note is a sugary caramelized sweetness with a little bit of a white bread. The cut is super chucky. I put mine in a food processor to break it up. Next time, I'll press it and flake cut it. From beginning to end, the flavor is consistent, dark, sweet, sugary, a little creamy, with some citrus tang and a little spice. Also some of the white bread notes come thru from time to time. You can chief the hell out of it and it will not bite. I find aggressive puffing brings out stronger flavors without getting hot or bite.

I find 507s pretty decent at a decent price point. It's definitely not McClelland 2035 Dark Navy Flake, but there is enough there to remind me of it.

I don't know how it is as a blender, but on its own it's a decent all day smoke without burning out your taste buds. Not that my opinion matters, but I do recommend it.

I don't love the cut, big sort of torn chunks of leaf. Jar notes are very nice, fruity, mainly raisin I think. In the smoke I get more raisin and maybe some tart apple, mild to moderate sweetness. Ridiculously mild, it's been rare to find a tobacco which doesn't produce a heavy cough if I try to inhale a little bit of smoke, but this one doesn't. Mild on the nicotine and flavor, maybe a little too mild for my tastes by itself. Probably be two stars if it were a blend aspiring to be more than it is, but for what it is, I'm comfortable with three.

By itself there's not much there but as a blending agent, to slow down the burn and provide some sweet basis, it does the job. I've been trying to find something that balances with Daughters & Ryan Ramback Turkish,which burns to quick and is characteristically sour, and this stoved VA is perfect. 50/50.

I like the big chunks, they balance out the small ribbon cut of the turkish.