Details
| Brand | Sobranie of London |
| Blended By | |
| Manufactured By | |
| Blend Type | Virginia Based |
| Contents | Cigar Leaf, Virginia |
| Flavoring | |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | 50g Pouch, 50g Tin |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Production | No longer in production |
Profile
Strength
Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Tolerable
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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3.20 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 2006 | Medium | None Detected | Medium | Tolerable |
I got some sealed packages of this old venerable blend. A old virginia from the 90's with a nice punch of high quality cigar (cuban?) leaf and a little condimental leaf added.
This is ribbon cut. It tastes like a sweet virginia underneath but reved up with cigar leaf. Cool. Dry. Not as heavy or dark as Dominican Glory Maduro but more elegant. Still should be puffed deliberately.
I can't say light due to body of the cigar leaf, which is more than a note in the taste. But the virginia is very smooth and more than supports the cigar ingredient.
If you want heavy, go for Dominican Glory Maduro. This #10 has real cigar flavor floating up from refined virginias. Yes, more refined even than Bankers, another top quality va/cigar leaf blend. Of course, age helps.
I puffed slowly on my back pourch in the mornings on my 25 gm pouch from Christmas to near February '06, just consuming a bowl every day or two in an old Dunhill Crosby dedicated to cigar blends. I thought what must the old timers had thought when they could smoke something this good whenever they wished. I was alone with singular quality such as I have seldom experienced before, realizing, really realizing that we have lost an era.
And I could have bought this easily in the 70's, 80's, etc., had I known what it was. But there was no Serads, Gages, pipe professors, tobaccoreviews, or P&T magazines back then. There were some mags and a good tobbaconist here and there, but there was too much stacked around to know what to ask. #10 after all must have been a special treat. Sigh.
I recommend this as not everyone, nor I, wants cigar leaf in their pipe all of the time. But if you can get a pouch or tin for a not too ungodly price, go for it.
This is ribbon cut. It tastes like a sweet virginia underneath but reved up with cigar leaf. Cool. Dry. Not as heavy or dark as Dominican Glory Maduro but more elegant. Still should be puffed deliberately.
I can't say light due to body of the cigar leaf, which is more than a note in the taste. But the virginia is very smooth and more than supports the cigar ingredient.
If you want heavy, go for Dominican Glory Maduro. This #10 has real cigar flavor floating up from refined virginias. Yes, more refined even than Bankers, another top quality va/cigar leaf blend. Of course, age helps.
I puffed slowly on my back pourch in the mornings on my 25 gm pouch from Christmas to near February '06, just consuming a bowl every day or two in an old Dunhill Crosby dedicated to cigar blends. I thought what must the old timers had thought when they could smoke something this good whenever they wished. I was alone with singular quality such as I have seldom experienced before, realizing, really realizing that we have lost an era.
And I could have bought this easily in the 70's, 80's, etc., had I known what it was. But there was no Serads, Gages, pipe professors, tobaccoreviews, or P&T magazines back then. There were some mags and a good tobbaconist here and there, but there was too much stacked around to know what to ask. #10 after all must have been a special treat. Sigh.
I recommend this as not everyone, nor I, wants cigar leaf in their pipe all of the time. But if you can get a pouch or tin for a not too ungodly price, go for it.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 06, 2014 | Medium | None Detected | Medium | Tolerable to Strong |
Arriving in the pipe world after the demise of Sobranie of London, it would hard to believe that anything produced by this famed blending house could be sub-par as it is held is such reverence by so many pipe smokers. I have haven’t found a bad one yet, but maybe that has all changed with Virginia #10. Sobranie’s Virginia #10, is a different kind of cat being a Virginia flake with quite a bit of cigar leaf. My tin was from 1985 (if the hand date stamp is accurate). The flakes are now covered with sugar crystals. I have smoked about three fourths of the tin and alternated by rubbing it out and stuffing broken flakes into the bowl. I prefer the flakes broken rather than rubbed The Virginias hold their own here, matching the cigar leaf with a nice bit of sweetness. Virginia #10 isn’t very complex and became a bit boring after several bowls. I have to believe that at the time the blend was tinned, the cigar leaf likely dominated the smoke. So, based on that theory, I wouldn’t have enjoyed this blend even though I enjoy cigars. Based on what it is today, it would be a weak three stars for me, but as it was intended….not so much.
Age When Smoked:
29 years
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