Dan Tobacco The Mellow Mallard
(3.26)
The rich aromatic pipe tobacco - Sweet golden and brown Virginia leaf matured for extra smoothness.
Notes: Description from the German website: This tobacco is free from added flavours, and excites smokers whom prefer pure tobacco, as well as lovers of aromatics tobaccos. Here we carefully fermented and matured very tasty and flavourful sweet Virginias from Zambia
The Mellow Mallard. Popular with old and young smokers, we couldn't wish for an attribute more suitable for this tobacco. The term describes this brown-flecked ready rubbed flake the best.
Look forward to a wonderfully full and mellow taste, that's free from any harshness. Experience the rich, sweet Virginia aromas.
Due to EU regulations, this is renamed and sold in those countries as "The Mallard".
Details
| Brand | Dan Tobacco |
| Blended By | |
| Manufactured By | Dan Tobacco |
| Blend Type | Straight Virginia |
| Contents | Virginia |
| Flavoring | |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | 50 grams tin, 100 grams tin |
| Country | Germany |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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3.26 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Feb 07, 2017 | Mild to Medium | None Detected | Mild to Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
The various Virginias offer a lot of very tart and tangy citrus, plenty of vegetative grass, straw and hay, a little floralness and acidity, a hint of dark fruit, a bit of tart lemon and wood, a small amount of sour tea and earth, and a pinch of spice. The strength and nic-hit are a couple of steps past the center of mild. The taste is a slot past that, just falling short of the medium mark. Won’t bite, but can burn a little warm, and does have a couple rough edges that may lead to a harsh note or two for the fast puffer. Here and there, you will find a dull note or two as well as some dry sourness. Not as complex a blend as it seems, but it burns clean and fairly cool at a reasonable pace with a mostly consistent sweet and mildly sour flavor from start to finish. Leaves little moisture in the bowl, and requires a few relights. Has a short lived, lightly sour acidic, sweet after taste. Can be an all day, kind of monochromatic smoke. It does have a little richness, but lacks enough depth to give it three stars. Two and a half stars. Age will improve and uhhhh... mellow this mallard out.
-JimInks
-JimInks
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 06, 2017 | Mild | None Detected | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
If you can smoke this slow enough it has some nice flavors. Sweet hay with some depth to it and some citrus notes. A little bready note. Smoking slowly though yields only wispy smoke. Increasing the pace gives more smoke, but the flavor gets real grassy and a bit harsh. Also makes it burn hot. Recommended only for slow smokers that don't mind a wispy smoke.
Mild in body. Mild to medium in taste. No flavoring detected. Seems to not want to burn readily even when bone dry.
Mild in body. Mild to medium in taste. No flavoring detected. Seems to not want to burn readily even when bone dry.
Pipe Used:
MM Little Devil Cutty, Little Devil Acorn, Marcus
PurchasedFrom:
smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked:
fresh
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2020 | Mild to Medium | None Detected | Mild to Medium | Tolerable |
I think life is small to smoke dull tobaccos. To be honest, it seems like a quality tobacco, but there are so many straight virginia blends that offer a lot more. Maybe if it is aged, it will turn into an interesting smoke? Surely. It seems to me, this is a tobacco used by blenders in order to make good quality mixtures. And this is why I always buy mellow mallard. Very rarely I smoke it by itself. I find it is useful as a nice ingredient to a quality home blend, or to add it to a very strong blend, or with a blend I don't like to smooth it out. Bottom line, I find it boring by itself. This is not bad tobacco though, but I can't imagine that someone would refer to it as his/her favourite tobacco.
And as always coming from the cigar world, I would compare this tobacco to the cheap Dominican cigars. They are good, but you expect nothing fancy or spectacular and you smoke them when you there is nothing better around. but they have their place in the tobacco world, as Mellow Mallard has in the pipe world.
And as always coming from the cigar world, I would compare this tobacco to the cheap Dominican cigars. They are good, but you expect nothing fancy or spectacular and you smoke them when you there is nothing better around. but they have their place in the tobacco world, as Mellow Mallard has in the pipe world.
Pipe Used:
various group 3 briar pipes
PurchasedFrom:
hacico, germany
Age When Smoked:
fresh from tin and 250gr. bag
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jan 01, 2014 | Medium | Extremely Mild | Mild | Pleasant |
Nice tin note and ribbon cut but I don't get all the references to being an Aromatic. I mean, it's not an offensive aroma but it's not a topped flavor/aroma that I associate with an Aromatic. The flavor is hard for me to describe, as there are hints of "Chinese 5 spice" in the taste, overlaid on a sweet but "ashy" burning Virginia. This doesn't bite but it does burn hot and that slightly interferes with what I would call the smoothness.
While smoking, I find myself drifting between moments of greatness and disappointment as this blend seems to lack body. I seem to want to smoke this a little more aggressively in order to bring out more of the flavor, but I find this technique just brings more ashy notes. This might improve with some cellar time, but I'd rather keep space for other more promising blends.
While smoking, I find myself drifting between moments of greatness and disappointment as this blend seems to lack body. I seem to want to smoke this a little more aggressively in order to bring out more of the flavor, but I find this technique just brings more ashy notes. This might improve with some cellar time, but I'd rather keep space for other more promising blends.
Pipe Used:
cob
Age When Smoked:
new
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jun 02, 2022 | Mild to Medium | None Detected | Mild to Medium | Tolerable |
Mellow, yes. Easy smoking, cool and slow burning, yes. But a bit dull and light-flavored, if I may say so.
Decent Virginia, but in a sea of GREAT Virginias... I don't think I will revisit it again.
Decent Virginia, but in a sea of GREAT Virginias... I don't think I will revisit it again.
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